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Nettie P Torbutt
(1896 - 1997)
updated February 06, 2019
Nettie P Torbutt was born on August 2, 1896. She died on July 5, 1997 at 100 years old. We know that Nettie P Torbutt had been residing in Newton, Jasper County, Illinois 62448.
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Nettie P Torbutt died on July 5, 1997 at age 100. She was born on August 2, 1896. We have no information about Nettie's immediate family. We know that Nettie P Torbutt had been residing in Newton, Jasper County, Illinois 62448.
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1896 - 1997 World Events
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In 1896, in the year that Nettie P Torbutt was born, on May 18th, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. By a vote of 7 to 1, the Court upheld state racial segregation laws, introducing the idea of "separate but equal" facilities for races.
In 1911, Nettie was merely 15 years old when the first Indianapolis 500 was run in May. Ray Harroun was the winner - he was an engineer and had retired from racing but he came back for this race. After the race, he retired for good. The purse was $27,550 - the largest offered up to that time - and Harroun received $10,000 for first place. His average time was 74.602 mph.
In 1950, at the age of 54 years old, Nettie was alive when on June 25th, the Korean War began when North Korean Communist forces crossed the 38th parallel. The Soviet Union and China backed North Korea and the U.N., primarily the United States backed South Korea.
In 1989, when she was 93 years old, on January 20th, George Herbert Walker Bush became the 41st President of the United States. Previously Ronald Regan's Vice President, he ran against Michael Dukakis and won the popular vote by 53.4% to 45.6%.
In 1997, in the year of Nettie P Torbutt's passing, on June 26th, the first Harry Potter book by J. K. Rowling was released. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was an immediate success and spawned not only sequels but also movies, video games, plays, and amusement park attractions. J.K. Rowling, at the time of the first book a poor single mother, has become a multi-billionaire.
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