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Ivey Gillian (1906 - 1985)

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Ivey Gillian
1906 - 1985
Born
May 2, 1906
Death
October 1985
Last Known Residence
Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina 28601
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Ivey Gillian of Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina was born on May 2, 1906, and died at age 79 years old in October 1985.
Updated: October 7, 2011
Biography ID: 31856966

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Ivey Gillian passed away at age 79 years old in October 1985. Ivey Gillian of Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina was born on May 2, 1906.

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Ivey Gillian lived 9 years longer than the average Gillian family member when she died at the age of 79.
The average age of a Gillian family member is 70.
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In 1906, in the year that Ivey Gillian was born, English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concluded that vitamins are essential to the human body and that a lack of vitamins caused scurvy and rickets. Scurvy and rickets were both huge problems in sailors that were at sea for extended time and the addition of vitamin C, vitamin D, and calcium in their diets helped eradicate the problem.

In 1931, Ivey was 25 years old when on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.

In 1944, by the time she was 38 years old, on November 7th, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was reelected to a fourth term as President of the United States. Running against Thomas Dewey, Governor of New York, Roosevelt won 53.4 of the popular vote, Dewey got 45.9%.

In 1967, when she was 61 years old, on October 2nd, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black US Supreme Court justice. Marshall was the great-grandson of a slave and graduated first in his class at Howard University Law School. His nomination to the Supreme Court was approved by the Senate, 69 to 11.

In 1985, in the year of Ivey Gillian's passing, on March 7th, the song "We Are the World" was released as a charity effort to alleviate the African famine. The song was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and produced by Quincy Jones. They were joined by 37 other famous singers in the recording studio and a phenomena had begun

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