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Benjamin Held 1901 - 1969

Benjamin Held of Brooklyn, Kings County, NY was born on July 10, 1901, and died at age 67 years old in June 1969.
Benjamin Held
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11203
July 10, 1901
June 1969
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    1901

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    July 10, 1901
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  • 06/dd
    1969

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    June 1969
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    Benjamin Held lived 8 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 67.
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In 1901, in the year that Benjamin Held was born, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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In 1914, when he was only 13 years old, in August, the Panama Canal opened to traffic. Begun by the French in the 1880's and abandoned, the United States undertook further construction in 1904. After 10 years, and the elimination of malaria carrying mosquitoes (which caused immense delays for the French and the Americans), the 48 mile long artificial waterway - a series of locks - created a shortcut for ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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