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Margaret Lutke (1917 - 1970)

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Margaret Lutke
1917 - 1970
Born
June 12, 1917
Death
December 1970
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Margaret Lutke was born on June 12, 1917, and died at age 53 years old in December 1970. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Margaret Lutke.
Updated: October 3, 2011
Biography ID: 6092434

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Margaret Lutke passed away at age 53 years old in December 1970. Margaret Lutke was born on June 12, 1917. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Margaret Lutke.

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Margaret Lutke lived 20 years shorter than the average Lutke family member when she died at the age of 53.
The average age of a Lutke family member is 73.
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In 1917, in the year that Margaret Lutke was born, Russian government offices were seized and the Romanov's Winter Palace was stormed in the Russian February and October Revolutions. The February revolution resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas and a coalition of the Parliament and workers parties taking control of the government. The October revolution resulted in Lenin and the Bolsheviks taking complete control.

In 1931, she was just 14 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 1943, by the time she was 26 years old, on March 31st, the Broadway musical Oklahoma! opened. Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (the first of their string of successful collaborations), audiences loved it. The musical ran for 2,212 performances originally and was made into a movie in 1954.

In 1951, by the time she was 34 years old, on April 5th, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (husband and wife) were sentenced to death for treason. They were executed on June 19th. American citizens, they were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Their two young sons were adopted by a high school teacher and his wife.

In 1970, in the year of Margaret Lutke's passing, on May 4th, four students at Kent State University in Ohio were shot and killed by National Guardsmen. The students were at a peaceful demonstration protesting the invasion of Cambodia by US forces. There had been precedent for the killing of American college students. The previous year, on May 15th, Alameda County Sheriffs used shotguns against U.C. Berkeley students at a protest for People's Park. One student died, one was blinded, 128 were injured.

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