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Petra A Chavez Echols 1931 - 2009

Petra A Chavez Echols of Texas was born on June 21, 1931, and died at age 78 years old on November 10, 2009.
Petra A Chavez Echols
Texas
June 21, 1931
November 10, 2009
Female
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  • 06/21
    1931

    Birthday

    June 21, 1931
    Birthdate
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  • 11/10
    2009

    Death

    November 10, 2009
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Petra A Chavez Echols lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1931, in the year that Petra A Chavez Echols was born, 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.
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In 1943, by the time she was just 12 years old, on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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