When Lena Madge Bedke was born on 17 June 1904, in Basin, Cassia, Idaho, United States, her father, Frank Carl Bedke, was 58 and her mother, Polly Ann McIntosh, was 41. She married Frederick Edward Kiddle on 1 June 1930. She lived in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1930 and Island Election Precinct, Union, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 1 May 1983, in La Grande, Union, Oregon, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Island City Cemetery, Island City, Union, Oregon, United States.
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The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Natural Bridges National Monument was designated a National Monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It is Utah’s first National Monument but didn’t get many visitors until after the uranium boom of the 1950s. Today the Monument and its park became the first International Dark Sky Park certified by the International Dark-Sky Association.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
German: shortened form of Beneke .
Germanized form of Sorbian B'enk, B'enka, and B'enko: from a pet form of the personal name Benedikt (see Benedict ), Bernat (see Bernard ), or Old Sorbian Benisław.
Hungarian: from a pet form of the personal name Benedek (see Benedict ).
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