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Helga Mertz 1937 - 1985

Helga Mertz was born on January 29, 1937, and died at age 48 years old in July 1985. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Helga Mertz.
Helga Mertz
January 29, 1937
July 1985
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Helga Mertz's History: 1937 - 1985

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    1937

    Birthday

    January 29, 1937
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  • 07/dd
    1985

    Death

    July 1985
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Helga Mertz lived 27 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 48.
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In 1937, in the year that Helga Mertz was born, on May 6th, the German zeppelin the Hindenburg caught fire and blew up. The Hindenburg was a passenger ship traveling to Frankfurt Germany. It tried to dock in New Jersey, one of the stops, and something went wrong - it blew up. Thirty-six people were killed out of the 97 on board - 13 passengers, 22 crewmen, and one ground worker. The reasons for the explosion are still disputed.
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In 1942, Helga was merely 5 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.
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