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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, the Germans first used poison gas as a weapon at the second Battle of Ypres during World War I. While noxious gases had been used since ancient times, this was the first use of poisonous gas - in this case, lethal chlorine gas - in modern war. Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.

In 1921, he was only 6 years old when hugely popular Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, silent film star, was arrested for rape and manslaughter after an actress died following a party at his house. He was acquitted after three trials and the jury wrote a formal letter apologizing for the charges, but his career never recovered. His films were at first banned - the ban was lifted after a year - and he was mostly ostracized by the community. He died at 46..

In 1957, Matt was 42 years old when on October 4th, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first man made earth-orbiting satellite - and triggered the Space Race. Sputnik I was only 23 inches in diameter and had no tracking equipment, only 4 antennas, but it had a big impact.

In 1972, at the age of 57 years old, Matt was alive when on September 5th, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, with the assistance of German neo-nazis, kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich. The attackers crept into the Olympic Village and abducted the athletes while they were sleeping. A German policeman was also killed.

In 1996, in the year of Matt J Polk's passing, on April 3rd, Theodore Kaczynski (nicknamed the Unabomber) was arrested. His mailed or hand-delivered bombs, sent between 1978 and 1995, killed three people and injured 23 others. Diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, Kaczynski is serving 8 life sentences without the possibility of parole.

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