![]() In 1999, Jay was 88 years old when on January 1st, the Euro became the new official single currency of the eurozone. ![]() Previously Ronald Regan's Vice President, he ran against Michael Dukakis and won the popular vote by 53.4% to 45.6%. In 1989, by the time he was 78 years old, on January 20th, George Herbert Walker Bush became the 41st President of the United States. In 1974, he was 63 years old when on February 5th, Patty Hearst, age 19 - granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst and daughter of publisher of the San Francisco Examiner Randolph Hearst - was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a left wing terrorist group. The official Navy reported the disappearance as "cause unknown". All five planes and 14 airmen disappeared, as did 13 crew on a plane that was dispatched to find them. In 1945, Jay was 34 years old when on December 5th, Flight 19 was lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Due to the disaster, legislation was passed to protect sweatshop workers. Doors to stairwells and exits had been locked in order to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to prevent theft, so they couldn't escape by normal means when the fire broke out. The garment factory was on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of a building in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. 146 workers (123 women and 23 men, many of them recent Jewish and Italian immigrants) died from the fire or by jumping to escape the fire and smoke. In 1911, in the year that Jay A Wheeler was born, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire occurred, one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. ![]() Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Jay's lifetime. ![]()
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