![]() In 1939, Ruby was 47 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. 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, when she was 20 years old, the RMS Titanic sank in April. But she was never acquitted in the public mind. ![]() Lizzie was accused of the crime and on June 20th of the next year, she was acquitted of murder by a jury. In 1892, in the year that Ruby Winters was born, on August 4th, the father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden were found murdered. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Ruby's lifetime.
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