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Walter Ribbe 1909 - 1985

Walter Ribbe (1909 - 1985)
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Walter Ribbe
Last Known Residence
Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan 49504
Born
October 11, 1909
Death
December 1985
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Walter Ribbe of Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan was born on October 11, 1909, and died at age 76 years old in December 1985.

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Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan 49504
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October 11, 1909
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Walter Ribbe passed away at age 76 years old in December 1985. Walter Ribbe of Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan was born on October 11, 1909.

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Walter Ribbe lived 2 years longer than the average Ribbe family member when he died at the age of 76.
The average age of a Ribbe family member is 74.
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1909 - 1985 World Events

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In 1909, in the year that Walter Ribbe was born, explorer Robert Peary, a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy, claimed to have been the first to have reached the geographic North Pole. His claim has been disputed for over a century - some say that he ended up 60 miles from the North Pole. Peary was the only navigator on his team and he didn't submit his records for public review.

In 1932, by the time he was 23 years old, five years to the day after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland, the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo and the first to replicate Lindbergh's feat. She flew over 2,000 miles in just under 15 hours.

In 1948, when he was 39 years old, on January 30th, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a member of a Hindu nationalist party who thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to Muslims. The man, Nathuram Godse, shot Gandhi 3 times. He died immediately. The shooter was tried, convicted, and hung in November 1949.

In 1951, Walter was 42 years old when 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.

In 1985, in the year of Walter Ribbe's passing, on March 15th, the first internet domain name was registered - Symbolics.com. Symbolics, Inc., a spinoff of the MIT AI Lab, was a computer manufacturer headquartered in Massachusetts. The company no longer exists and the domain name was sold 25 years later.

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