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Ralph Kooiker 1905 - 1993

Ralph Kooiker of Grand Rapids, Kent County, MI was born on November 17, 1905, and died at age 87 years old on August 14, 1993.
Ralph Kooiker
Grand Rapids, Kent County, MI 49509
November 17, 1905
August 14, 1993
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  • 11/17
    1905

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    November 17, 1905
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  • 08/14
    1993

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    August 14, 1993
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    Ralph Kooiker lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1905, in the year that Ralph Kooiker was born, the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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In 1952, at the age of 47 years old, Ralph was alive when on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
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