THE KNOWN AND UNKNOWN HISTORY AND FACTS

71 years ago today is when The first Miss Universe pageant is held. Armi Kuusela from Finland wins the title of Miss Universe 1952. Armi Helena Kuusela (born 20 August 1934) is a Finnish-American charity worker, model and beauty queen. In 1952, she won the Finnish national beauty contest Suomen Neito and was presented with a trip to the United States to participate in the first-ever Miss Universe pageant, becoming its first titleholder. On 17 June 1952, chaperoned by her older sister, Kuusela took the Pan Am flight from Helsinki to Long Beach, California, where she took part in the first Miss Universe Pageant.  Thirty contestants participated in the Pageant, held on 28 June 1952. Kuusela, as Suomen Neito, captured the first Miss Universe crown. At her crowning, she was only 17 years old, weighed 49 kg (108 lb), and her height was 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in). Among her many prizes, Kuusela received a new car and a long-term movie contract from Universal Studios.As titleholder, she also became a

Mother Matylda Getter could just lock the gate and return to her prayers, but kids were dying all around, and for her, helping others was as natural as breathing. ➡️She had a big experience in aiding the poor, the orphaned and the persecuted, dating back to the previous century. Why, the order of the convent she chose to join, Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary expressly defined its mission as relieving the pain and helping the needy. This is what Mother Getter did, first under the Tsarist rule, then in free Poland, and finally, under German occupation. ➡️It was the years 1939 to 1945 which posed the biggest challenge: never before had hundreds of thousands of people been doomed to destruction, and turned into the needy overnight. The Jews of Warsaw were fenced off like cattle, confined to a small area, banned natural human rights, starved and exploited through hard labour, to be finally murdered en masse.  ➡️Mother Superior and other Sisters were no strangers to defying the law