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Hock Chew 1920 - 2007

Hock Chew of Brooklyn, Kings County, NY was born on August 9, 1920, and died at age 86 years old on April 7, 2007.
Hock Chew
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11209
August 9, 1920
April 7, 2007
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  • 08/9
    1920

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    August 9, 1920
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  • 04/7
    2007

    Death

    April 7, 2007
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    Hock Chew lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1920, in the year that Hock Chew was born, the Volstead Act became law. Formally called the National Prohibition Act, the Volstead Act enabled law enforcement agencies to carry out the 18th Amendment. It said that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, or furnish any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act" and defined intoxicating liquor as any beverage containing more than 0.5% alcohol by volume.
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In 1943, by the time this person was 23 years old, on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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