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Cyril Valcourt (1898 - 1967)

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Cyril Valcourt
1898 - 1967
Born
September 22, 1898
Death
August 1967
Last Known Residence
Halethorpe, Baltimore County, Maryland 21227
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Cyril Valcourt of Halethorpe, Baltimore County, Maryland was born on September 22, 1898, and died at age 68 years old in August 1967.
Updated: October 3, 2011
Biography ID: 4413096

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Cyril Valcourt passed away at age 68 years old in August 1967. Cyril Valcourt of Halethorpe, Baltimore County, Maryland was born on September 22, 1898.

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1898 - 1967 World Events

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In 1898, in the year that Cyril Valcourt was born, magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company controlled 84% of the oil and pipelines in the United States. Rockefeller grew Standard Oil through the merger of several other small oil companies throughout the U.S., creating a monopoly.

In 1907, Cyril was just 9 years old when radiometric dating, a recently discovered technology that could date rocks, found that the earth was 2.2 billion years old which was dramatically older than previously thought. Later refinements and advancements in science would date the age of the earth at over 4.5 billion years.

In 1913, by the time he was just 15 years old, the Philippine–American War ended for good in June. While the official end of the war was in 1902, fighting continued for several years. An estimated 200,000 to 250,000 total Filipino civilians died and although the U.S. viewed its role as a colonial presence as one of preparing the Philippines for independence, American colonization drastically changed the character off the culture. The Catholic Church was no longer the state religion and English became the primary language of the government.

In 1958, by the time he was 60 years old, on January 31st, Explorer I, the United States' answer to Sputnik I (and 2,) was launched. America had entered the Space Race. The first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, it remained in orbit until 1970.

In 1967, in the year of Cyril Valcourt's passing, on October 2nd, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black US Supreme Court justice. Marshall was the great-grandson of a slave and graduated first in his class at Howard University Law School. His nomination to the Supreme Court was approved by the Senate, 69 to 11.

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