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Eugene Petersen (1892 - 1994)

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Eugene Petersen
1892 - 1994
Born
January 11, 1892
Hyrum, Utah, US
Death
February 13, 1994
Hyrum, Utah, USA
Last Known Residence
Hyrum, Cache County, Utah 84319
Summary
Eugene Petersen of Hyrum, Cache County, Utah was born on January 11, 1892 in Hyrum, and died at age 102 years old on February 13, 1994 in Hyrum. Eugene Petersen was buried on February 16, 1994 in Hyrum.
Updated: August 23, 2011
Biography ID: 608105

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Hyrum, Cache County, Utah 84319
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February 13, 1994
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Eugene Petersen passed away at age 102 years old on February 13, 1994 in Hyrum, and was buried on February 16, 1994 in Hyrum. Eugene Petersen of Hyrum, Cache County, Utah was born on January 11, 1892 in Hyrum.

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Eugene Petersen lived 27 years longer than the average Petersen family member when he died at the age of 102.
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In 1892, in the year that Eugene Petersen was born, on January 1st, Ellis Island opened to process immigrants. 700 passed through on the first day - in the first year, 450,000 were processed. The processing center was originally a 3 story wooden building - with outbuildings - that burned down a few years later.

In 1920, when he was 28 years old, on November 2, radio station KDKA began broadcasting in Pittsburgh, PA. This was the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States. Westinghouse, a leading manufacturer of radios and the backer of the station, chose the date because of the Presidential election. People liked it because they could hear about the results of the election between Harding and Cox before the morning papers arrived. Four years later, there were 600 commercial stations broadcasting in the U.S.

In 1947, he was 55 years old when in June, the Marshall Plan was proposed to help European nations recover economically from World War II. It passed the conservative Republican Congress in March of 1948. After World War I, the economic devastation of Germany caused by burdensome reparations payments led to the rise of Hitler. The Allies didn't want this to happen again and the Marshall Plan was devised to make sure that those conditions didn't arise again.

In 1963, he was 71 years old when on November 22nd, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States when President John Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. Johnson was sworn in on the plane carrying Kennedy's body back to Washington D.C.

In 1994, in the year of Eugene Petersen's passing, on May 6th, former political prisoner, lawyer, and activist Nelson Mandela was elected the first black President of South Africa. He was 75 when he was elected and he served one five-year term.

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