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Sam Denkensohn 1890 - 1972

Sam Denkensohn of Brooklyn, Kings County, NY was born on January 1, 1890, and died at age 82 years old in May 1972.
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11230
January 1, 1890
May 1972
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Sam Denkensohn's History: 1890 - 1972

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    1972

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    May 1972
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    Sam Denkensohn lived 4 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1890, in the year that Sam Denkensohn was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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In 1905, Sam was just 15 years old when 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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