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Walter Goepel 1889 - 1956

Walter Goepel (1889 - 1956)
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Walter Goepel
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July 5, 1889
Death
March 1956
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Walter Goepel was born on July 5, 1889, and died at age 66 years old in March 1956. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Walter Goepel.

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Walter Goepel passed away at age 66 years old in March 1956. Walter Goepel was born on July 5, 1889. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Walter Goepel.

Average Age & Life Expectancy

Walter Goepel lived 8 years shorter than the average Goepel family member when he died at the age of 66.
The average age of a Goepel family member is 74.
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1889 - 1956 World Events

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In 1889, in the year that Walter Goepel was born, on April 22nd, at "high noon," about 50,000 people took off to claim open lands in the Land Rush of 1889. Called the "Unassigned Lands," part or all of 6 counties in Oklahoma were up for grabs. By the end of the day, Oklahoma City and Guthrie were created - each with about 10,000 inhabitants.

In 1895, Walter was merely 6 years old when on September 3rd, in Latrobe, PA, the first professional football game was played. The game was between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. Latrobe won 12 - 0.

In 1931, he was 42 years old when on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.

In 1942, he was 53 years old when on June 17th, Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, which lead to the development of the first atomic bomb. With the support of Canada and the United Kingdom, the Project came to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist born in New York, led the Los Alamos Laboratory that developed the actual bomb. The first artificial nuclear explosion took place near Alamogordo New Mexico on July 16, 1945.

In 1956, in the year of Walter Goepel's passing, this was the year that the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, became an international sensation. He began the year as a regional favorite and ended the year with 17 recordings having been on the Billboard’s Top 100 singles chart, 11 TV appearances, and a movie. Elvis scandalized adults and thrilled teens.

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