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Richard J Ribbe (1903 - 1985)

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Richard J Ribbe
1903 - 1985
Born
May 11, 1903
Death
April 21, 1985
Last Known Residence
Middle Village, Queens County, New York 11379
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Richard J Ribbe of Middle Village, Queens County, New York was born on May 11, 1903, and died at age 81 years old on April 21, 1985. Richard Ribbe was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Section 6 Site 265 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton.
Updated: November 17, 2015
Biography ID: 9587093

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Middle Village, Queens County, New York 11379
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Branch of service: Us Marine Corps Rank attained: PVT Wars/Conflicts: World War I
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Calverton National Cemetery Section 6 Site 265 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton, New York 11933
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Richard Ribbe passed away at age 81 years old on April 21, 1985, and was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Section 6 Site 265 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton. Richard J Ribbe of Middle Village, Queens County, New York was born on May 11, 1903.

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Richard J Ribbe lived 7 years longer than the average Ribbe family member when he died at the age of 81.
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1903 - 1985 World Events

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In 1903, in the year that Richard J Ribbe was born, the Harley-Davidson Motor Company was begun by two childhood friends, William Harley and Arthur Davidson - with help from Arthur's brother, Walter. Their first prototype - a "motor-bicycle" - couldn't climb hills without also pedaling, so they went back to the drawing board, and in 1904 their new version came in 4th in a race. Harley-Davidson and Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company were the only two major motorcycle companies to survive the Great Depression.

In 1915, by the time he was just 12 years old, Audrey Munson, playing a model for a sculptor in the film "Inspiration", became the first actress to shed her clothes on screen. Fearing that banning the film would mean that censors would also have to "ban Renaissance art" the film was released, with Munson in the nude scenes and a stand-in doing the acting. (Munson had previously been "America's First Supermodel" and posed nude as the model for many famous artworks.) The film was a hit with audiences.

In 1966, at the age of 63 years old, Richard was alive when on September 8th, the first Star Trek episode, "The Man Trap," was broadcast on NBC. The plot concerned a creature that sucked salt from human bodies. The original series only aired for 3 seasons due to low ratings.

In 1976, he was 73 years old when on August 4th, a mysterious illness struck an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. Within a week, 25 people had died and 130 people had been hospitalized. It was the first known instance of what came to be called "Legionnaires Disease."

In 1985, in the year of Richard J Ribbe's passing, in May, a paper published in Nature by three British scientists reported that a huge hole was discovered in the ozone layer over the Antarctic. It was much larger than expected and is due to the use of manmade chemicals.

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