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Joel Best 1890 - 1981

Joel Best of Washington, District of Columbia County, Maryland was born on August 27, 1890, and died at age 90 years old in February 1981.
Joel Best
Washington, District of Columbia County, Maryland 20023
August 27, 1890
February 1981
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Joel Best's History: 1890 - 1981

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    1890

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    August 27, 1890
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  • 02/dd
    1981

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    February 1981
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    Joel Best lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1890, in the year that Joel Best was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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In 1905, he was only 15 years old when the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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