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Hugh Orourke 1900 - 1967

Hugh Orourke of Newtown, Fairfield County, CT was born on September 2, 1900, and died at age 66 years old in May 1967.
Hugh Orourke
Newtown, Fairfield County, CT 06470
September 2, 1900
May 1967
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    1967

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    May 1967
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    Hugh Orourke lived 7 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 66.
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In 1900, in the year that Hugh Orourke 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 1911, Hugh was just 11 years old when the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.
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