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Rena Goepel 1902 - 1985

Rena Goepel (1902 - 1985)
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Rena Goepel
Last Known Residence
Fairfax, Fairfax City County, Virginia 22030
Born
July 21, 1902
Death
January 1985
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Rena Goepel of Fairfax, Fairfax City County, Virginia was born on July 21, 1902, and died at age 82 years old in January 1985.

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Fairfax, Fairfax City County, Virginia 22030
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July 21, 1902
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Rena Goepel passed away at age 82 years old in January 1985. Rena Goepel of Fairfax, Fairfax City County, Virginia was born on July 21, 1902.

Average Age & Life Expectancy

Rena Goepel lived 8 years longer than the average Goepel family member when she died at the age of 82.
The average age of a Goepel family member is 74.
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1902 - 1985 World Events

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In 1902, in the year that Rena Goepel was born, the first Rose Bowl game was played in Pasadena, California. Called the "Tournament East–West football game" at the time, the Michigan Wolverines (East) played the Stanford Indians (West) - the Wolverines won 49 - 0. (The Stanford captain requested an end to the game with 8 minutes remaining.) The Tournament of Roses Parade began in 1890 and the football game began as a way to boost tourism in the area.

In 1918, when she was 16 years old, in July, Russian revolutionaries executed the former Tzar Nicholas II and his immediate family. While it was rumored that two of the children had survived, it was later proven through DNA analysis - when their bodies were found - that the entire family had been killed.

In 1946, she was 44 years old when pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock's book "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" was published. It sold half a million copies in the first six months. Aside from the Bible, it became the best selling book of the 20th century. A generation of Baby Boomers were raised by the advice of Dr. Spock.

In 1975, by the time she was 73 years old, in January, Popular Mechanics featured the Altair 8800 on it's cover. The Altair home computer kit allowed consumers to build and program their own personal computers. Thousands were sold in the first month.

In 1985, in the year of Rena Goepel's passing, on March 15th, the first internet domain name was registered - Symbolics.com. Symbolics, Inc., a spinoff of the MIT AI Lab, was a computer manufacturer headquartered in Massachusetts. The company no longer exists and the domain name was sold 25 years later.

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