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Karl Giese 1895 - 1978

Karl Giese (1895 - 1978)
Full legal name
Karl Giese
Last Known Residence
Bogota, Bergen County, New Jersey 07603
Born
May 18, 1895
Death
January 1978
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Karl Giese of Bogota, Bergen County, New Jersey was born on May 18, 1895, and died at age 82 years old in January 1978.

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Bogota, Bergen County, New Jersey 07603
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May 18, 1895
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Karl Giese passed away at age 82 years old in January 1978. Karl Giese of Bogota, Bergen County, New Jersey was born on May 18, 1895.

Average Age & Life Expectancy

Karl Giese lived 7 years longer than the average Giese family member when he died at the age of 82.
The average age of a Giese family member is 75.
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1895 - 1978 World Events

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In 1895, in the year that Karl Giese was born, on March 15th, in County Tipperary, Ireland, Michael Cleary killed his wife of 8 years, Bridget, and burned her body. His defense was that his "wife" was a changeling that was left in his real wife's place when she was abducted by fairies. He was nonetheless convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter. He spent 15 years in prison.

In 1903, when he was merely 8 years old, the Ford Motor Company was incorporated in June after Henry Ford left another car company he founded in 1901 (which became the Cadillac Motor Company). He began Ford Motor Company with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors, two of whom (the Dodge brothers) later began their own car company. Henry Ford improved on assembly line techniques and has been so successful that his family still controls a very popular Ford line of cars and trucks.

In 1946, at the age of 51 years old, Karl was alive when on July 4th, the Philippines gained independence from the United States. In 1964, Independence Day in the Philippines was moved from July 4th to June 12th at the insistence of nationalists and historians.

In 1955, he was 60 years old when in January, President Eisenhower sent direct aid to South Vietnam. In February, U.S. advisors were sent to train troops.

In 1978, in the year of Karl Giese's passing, on November 18th, Jim Jones's Peoples Temple followers committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana - where they had moved, from San Francisco, as a group. Jones was the leader of the cult and ordered his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch, which they did. Whole families (women and children included) died - more than 900 people in all.

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