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Gerrit Abbink 1911 - 2009

Gerrit Abbink of Watertown, Codington County, Minnesota was born on July 21, 1911, and died at age 97 years old on March 21, 2009.
Gerrit Abbink
Watertown, Codington County, Minnesota 57201
July 21, 1911
March 21, 2009
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  • 07/21
    1911

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    July 21, 1911
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  • 03/21
    2009

    Death

    March 21, 2009
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    Gerrit Abbink lived 21 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 97.
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In 1911, in the year that Gerrit Abbink was born, the first use of aircraft as an offensive weapon occurred in the Turkish-Italian War. First used for aerial reconnaissance alone, planes were then used in aerial combat to shoot down recon planes. In World War I, planes and zeppelins evolved for use in bombing.
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In 1933, when he was 22 years old, the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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