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John Riley 1884 - 1963

John Riley of Pennsylvania was born on March 20, 1884, and died at age 79 years old in July 1963.
John Riley
Pennsylvania
March 20, 1884
July 1963
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    1884

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    March 20, 1884
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  • 07/dd
    1963

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    July 1963
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    John Riley lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1884, in the year that John Riley was born, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.
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In 1899, when he was only 15 years old, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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