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Gertrude Knight 1915 - 1986

Gertrude Knight of Costa Mesa, Orange County, California was born on December 13, 1915, and died at age 70 years old in August 1986.
Gertrude Knight
Costa Mesa, Orange County, California 92627
December 13, 1915
August 1986
Female
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    1915

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    December 13, 1915
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    1986

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    August 1986
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    Gertrude Knight lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 70.
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In 1915, in the year that Gertrude Knight was born, the Germans first used poison gas as a weapon at the second Battle of Ypres during World War I. While noxious gases had been used since ancient times, this was the first use of poisonous gas - in this case, lethal chlorine gas - in modern war. Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.
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In 1925, at the age of just 10 years old, Gertrude was alive when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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