Syrus Rooks
Updated Jul 14, 2017
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Syrus Rooks (1896 - 1978)

Syrus Rooks was born on May 1, 1896. Syrus died in September 1978 at 82 years of age. We know that Syrus Rooks had been residing in Tunica, Tunica County, Mississippi.
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Syrus Rooks lived 13 years longer than the average Rooks family member when they died at the age of 82.

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1896 - In the year that Syrus Rooks was born, in April, the first study on global warming due to CO2 - carbon dioxide - in the atmosphere was published by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius. Arrhenius concluded that human activity due to the Industrial Revolution would amplify CO2 in the atmosphere, causing a greenhouse effect. His conclusions have been extensively tested in the ensuing 100+ years and are still seen to hold true.

1902 - Syrus was just 6 years old when the Aswan Low Dam (the old Aswan Dam) began construction in Egypt in 1899 and was completed in 1902 - making it the largest masonry dam in the world at the time. The dam was built on the Nile River in order to conserve water and regulate flooding, allowing for population increase along the Nile.

1951 - When this person was 55 years old, on April 5th, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (husband and wife) were sentenced to death for treason. They were executed on June 19th. American citizens, they were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Their two young sons were adopted by a high school teacher and his wife.

1957 - When this person was 61 years old, on September 24th, the "Little Rock Nine" (nine African-American students) entered Little Rock High School. Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus had previously prevented the students from entering the school at the beginning of the term with the Arkansas National Guard - they blocked the door. President Eisenhower ordered federal troops - the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army - to guard the students and allow them entry.

1978 - In the year of Syrus Rooks's passing, on November 18th, Jim Jones's Peoples Temple followers committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana - where they had moved, from San Francisco, as a group. Jones was the leader of the cult and ordered his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch, which they did. Whole families (women and children included) died - more than 900 people in all.

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Syrus Rooks passed away in September 1978 at 82 years old. There is no known cause of death for Syrus. Syrus was born on May 1, 1896. We are unaware of information about Syrus's immediate family. We know that Syrus Rooks had been residing in Tunica, Tunica County, Mississippi.

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