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Earl Watkins 1898 - 1986

Earl Watkins of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa was born on November 12, 1898, and died at age 87 years old in August 1986.
Earl Watkins
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa 50316
November 12, 1898
August 1986
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Earl Watkins' History: 1898 - 1986

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    November 12, 1898
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    1986

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    August 1986
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    Earl Watkins lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1898, in the year that Earl Watkins was born, on March 24th, Robert Allison of Pennsylvania became the first person to buy an American-built car. He bought a Winton, which he had seen in an advertisement in Scientific American. The Winton, built in Ohio, was made by hand and came with a leather roof, padded seats, gas lamps, and tires made by B.F. Goodrich.
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In 1943, when he was 45 years old, on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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