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Bennie Thornton 1906 - 1972

Bennie Thornton of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina was born on November 29, 1906, and died at age 65 years old in April 1972.

Bennie Thornton

Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina 27602

November 29, 1906

April 1972

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In 1906, in the year that Bennie Thornton was born, English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concluded that vitamins are essential to the human body and that a lack of vitamins caused scurvy and rickets. Scurvy and rickets were both huge problems in sailors that were at sea for extended time and the addition of vitamin C, vitamin D, and calcium in their diets helped eradicate the problem.

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In 1918, Bennie was just 12 years old when on November 1, an elevated train on the Brooklyn line of the subway - driven by an inexperienced operator because of a strike - tried to navigate a turn at 30mph. The limit on the curve was 6 mph. The 2nd and 3rd cars of the 5 car wooden train were badly damaged and at least 93 people were killed, making it the deadliest crash in New York subway history.

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