The next day, the blacklist was created and they were fired. Ten Hollywood writers and directors had refused to testify to the Committee regarding "Communists" or "Reds" in the movie industry. In 1947, at the age of 35 years old, Clementine was alive when on November 25th, the Hollywood "Black List" was created by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). At the 11th Academy Awards in February 1939, Walt Disney won an Academy Honorary Award - a full-size Oscar statuette and seven miniature ones - for Snow White. First released in December 1937, it was originally dubbed "Disney's Folly" but the premiere received a standing ovation from the audience. In 1939, she was 27 years old when in May, Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film, reached a total international gross of $6.5 million which made it (to then) the most successful sound film of all time. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. In 1922, when she was merely 10 years old, on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1).
Over 1500 died, making it the largest maritime disaster in modern history. There were only enough lifeboats for about half of the passengers so over 1,000 remained behind while "women and children first" were loaded.
Five of her watertight compartments failed but she was designed to survive only 4 being flooded. The RMS Titanic was a British built and run passenger liner that was billed as "unsinkable." On its maiden voyage from Southampton England to New York City, carrying about 2,224 passengers and crew - from the wealthiest people in the world to poor emigrants from Europe, the Titanic hit an iceberg. In 1912, in the year that Clementine Pellegrino was born, the RMS Titanic sank in April. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Clementine's lifetime.
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