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Sylvia Gottesmann (1922 - 2009)

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Sylvia Gottesmann
1922 - 2009
Born
January 20, 1922
Death
November 12, 2009
Last Known Residence
Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey 07728
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Sylvia Gottesmann of Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey was born on January 20, 1922, and died at age 87 years old on November 12, 2009.
Updated: October 4, 2011
Biography ID: 11065231

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Sylvia Gottesmann passed away at age 87 years old on November 12, 2009. Sylvia Gottesmann of Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey was born on January 20, 1922.

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Sylvia Gottesmann lived 7 years longer than the average Gottesmann family member when she died at the age of 87.
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In 1922, in the year that Sylvia Gottesmann was born, on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.

In 1963, Sylvia was 41 years old when on November 22nd, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States when President John Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. Johnson was sworn in on the plane carrying Kennedy's body back to Washington D.C.

In 1972, at the age of 50 years old, Sylvia was alive when on September 5th, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, with the assistance of German neo-nazis, kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich. The attackers crept into the Olympic Village and abducted the athletes while they were sleeping. A German policeman was also killed.

In 1980, at the age of 58 years old, Sylvia was alive when on December 8th, ex-Beatle John Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in front of his home - the Dakota - in New York City. Chapman was found guilty of murder and still remains in jail.

In 1993, at the age of 71 years old, Sylvia was alive when on February 26th, a truck bomb exploded in the garage under the North Tower of the World Trade Center. While the bomb didn't do what was planned (collapse the North Tower into the South Tower), it did kill six people and injured thousands of people.

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