Evelyn Alice Dimitt
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Parents
Lena Elsie Mae Bourn
Lena Elsie Mae Bourn
1886 - 1963
John Jackson Dimitt
John Jackson Dimitt
1886 - 1943
Spouse
Carl Lewis Burt
Carl Lewis Burt
1905 - 1975
Siblings
Dora Augustine Dimitt
Dora Augustine Dimitt
1914 - 1915

1933


Age: 21y
1933 • The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises from 53.84 to 62.10. The day's gain of 15.34%, achieved during the depths of the Great Depression, remains to date as the largest 1-day percentage gain for the index.

1936


Age: 24y
1936 • The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of a sports event in world history. Note that John Logie Baird had previously broadcast the Derby horse race in Britain in 1931.

1937


Age: 25y
1937 October 21Spanish Civil War: The whole Spanish northern seaboard falls into the Falangists' hands; Republican forces in Gijon, Spain, set fire to petrol reserves prior to retreating before the advancing Falangists.

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