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Retha Killian 1901 - 1983

Retha Killian of Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama was born on October 21, 1901, and died at age 81 years old in April 1983.
Retha Killian
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama 35216
October 21, 1901
April 1983
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  • 10/21
    1901

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    October 21, 1901
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  • 04/dd
    1983

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    April 1983
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    Retha Killian lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1901, in the year that Retha Killian was born, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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In 1911, she was just 10 years old when the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.
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