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William J Griffin 1899 - 1972

William J Griffin of Detroit, Wayne County, MI was born on September 28, 1899, and died at age 72 years old on March 26, 1972.
William J Griffin
Detroit, Wayne County, MI 48213
September 28, 1899
March 26, 1972
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  • 09/28
    1899

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    September 28, 1899
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  • 03/26
    1972

    Death

    March 26, 1972
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    William J Griffin lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 72.
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In 1899, in the year that William J Griffin was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1931, he was 32 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.
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