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Elizabeth Carik 1912 - 1981

Elizabeth Carik (1912 - 1981)
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Elizabeth Carik
Last Known Residence
Grosse Pointe, Wayne County, Michigan 48236
Born
November 16, 1912
Death
April 1981
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Elizabeth Carik of Grosse Pointe, Wayne County, Michigan was born on November 16, 1912, and died at age 68 years old in April 1981.

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Grosse Pointe, Wayne County, Michigan 48236
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November 16, 1912
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Elizabeth Carik passed away at age 68 years old in April 1981. Elizabeth Carik of Grosse Pointe, Wayne County, Michigan was born on November 16, 1912.

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Elizabeth Carik lived 2 years shorter than the average Carik family member when she died at the age of 68.
The average age of a Carik family member is 70.
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1912 - 1981 World Events

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In 1912, in the year that Elizabeth Carik was born, the RMS Titanic sank in April. The RMS Titanic was a British built and run passenger liner that was billed as "unsinkable." On its maiden voyage from Southampton England to New York City, carrying about 2,224 passengers and crew - from the wealthiest people in the world to poor emigrants from Europe, the Titanic hit an iceberg. Five of her watertight compartments failed but she was designed to survive only 4 being flooded. She began to sink. There were only enough lifeboats for about half of the passengers so over 1,000 remained behind while "women and children first" were loaded. Over 1500 died, making it the largest maritime disaster in modern history.

In 1944, she was 32 years old when on December 16th, The Battle of the Bulge began in the Ardennes forest on the Western Front. Lasting for a little over a month, the battle began with a surprise attack by Germany on the Allied forces The U.S. suffered their highest casualties of any operation in World War II - 89,000 were casualties, around 8,600 killed - but Germany also severely depleted their resources and they couldn't be replaced.

In 1967, at the age of 55 years old, Elizabeth was alive when on November 7th, President Johnson signed legislation passed by Congress that created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which would later become PBS and NPR. The legislation required CPB to operate with a "strict adherence to objectivity and balance in all programs or series of programs of a controversial nature".

In 1976, at the age of 64 years old, Elizabeth was alive when on August 4th, a mysterious illness struck an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. Within a week, 25 people had died and 130 people had been hospitalized. It was the first known instance of what came to be called "Legionnaires Disease."

In 1981, in the year of Elizabeth Carik's passing, on January 20th, Ronald Reagan became the 40th President of the United States. He ran against the incumbent, Jimmy Carter, and won 50.7% of the popular vote to Carter's 41.0%.

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