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Benita Velez 1906 - 1972

Benita Velez of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York was born on April 14, 1906, and died at age 66 years old in November 1972.

Benita Velez

Brooklyn, Kings County, New York 11211

April 14, 1906

November 1972

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Benita Velez lived 4 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 66.

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In 1906, in the year that Benita Velez was born, President Theodore Roosevelt received the Nobel Prize for Peace. The award was considered controversial at the time because many thought that he was an imperialist. But he had brokered peace between Russia and Japan a year previous and had allowed a dispute between Mexico and the U.S. to go to arbitration, resolving the issue peacefully rather than resorting to military conflict. For these two reasons, the Nobel Prize committee chose him for the Peace Prize.

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In 1915, she was merely 9 years old when the Germans first used poison gas as a weapon at the second Battle of Ypres during World War I. While noxious gases had been used since ancient times, this was the first use of poisonous gas - in this case, lethal chlorine gas - in modern war. Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.

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