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Gordon Shimmin 1900 - 1968

Gordon Shimmin of Kankakee, Kankakee County, Illinois was born on October 7, 1900, and died at age 68 years old in December 1968.
Gordon Shimmin
Kankakee, Kankakee County, Illinois 60901
October 7, 1900
December 1968
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    1900

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    October 7, 1900
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  • 12/dd
    1968

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    December 1968
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    Gordon Shimmin lived 7 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 68.
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In 1900, in the year that Gordon Shimmin was born, the German physicist Max Planck formulated an energy theory, postulating the existence of "quanta," which lays the groundwork for the quantum theory of modern physics. In December, he introduced a paper on the Planck postulate which stated that E=hv - the energy of a photon is proportional to its frequency times a constant. Planck won a Nobel Prize in 1918 for his work in theoretical Physics.
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In 1915, by the time he was just 15 years old, in May, the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German torpedo. The Lusitania was a British passenger ship that was sailing from New York to Liverpool England. She sank in 18 minutes - 1,198 died and 761 survived. While travelers were the main casualty - and commodity - the Lusitania did carry wartime weapons. "Remember the Lusitania" became the rallying cry of World War 1.
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