When Lillian Beckhardt was born on 10 March 1924, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, her father, Joseph Beckhardt, was 55 and her mother, Lillie Katharine Schmidt, was 41. She lived in District 5, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States for about 10 years. She died on 2 June 1994, at the age of 70, and was buried in Crownsville, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
German: variant of Eckhart .
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