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Matt J Polk (1915 - 1996)

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Matt J Polk
1915 - 1996
Born
October 21, 1915
Death
March 31, 1996
Last Known Residence
Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire 03103
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Matt J Polk of Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire was born on October 21, 1915, and died at age 80 years old on March 31, 1996.
Updated: October 1, 2011
Biography ID: 3015701

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Matt Polk passed away at age 80 years old on March 31, 1996. Matt J Polk of Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire was born on October 21, 1915.

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Matt J Polk lived 9 years longer than the average Polk family member when he died at the age of 80.
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1915 - 1996 World Events

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In 1915, in the year that Matt J Polk was born, in May, the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German torpedo. The Lusitania was a British passenger ship that was sailing from New York to Liverpool England. She sank in 18 minutes - 1,198 died and 761 survived. While travelers were the main casualty - and commodity - the Lusitania did carry wartime weapons. "Remember the Lusitania" became the rallying cry of World War 1.

In 1920, by the time he was merely 5 years old, Italian born factory worker Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti were picked up by police on May 5th in connection with the April 15th murder and robbery of a guard and a paymaster at the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in South Braintree, Mass. Although in later years they were thought to be innocent, they were anarchists and were convicted of the crime and put to death.

In 1932, he was 17 years old when on February 27th, actress Elizabeth Taylor was born in London. Her parents were Americans living in London and when she was 7, the family moved to Los Angeles. Her first small part in a movie was in There's One Born Every Minute in 1942 but her first starring role was in National Velvet in 1944. She became as famous for her 8 marriages (to 7 people) as she was for her beauty and films.

In 1947, at the age of 32 years old, Matt was alive when in June, the Marshall Plan was proposed to help European nations recover economically from World War II. It passed the conservative Republican Congress in March of 1948. After World War I, the economic devastation of Germany caused by burdensome reparations payments led to the rise of Hitler. The Allies didn't want this to happen again and the Marshall Plan was devised to make sure that those conditions didn't arise again.

In 1996, in the year of Matt J Polk's passing, on July 5th, the first cloned mammal - "Dolly the Sheep" - was born in Scotland. She had three mothers. Dolly lived to be 6 years old and produced 6 lambs. Since, other sheep have been cloned as well as horses, pigs, deer, and bulls.

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