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Katharine Duke 1914 - 2004

Katharine Duke of Austin, Travis County, TX was born on October 17, 1914, and died at age 89 years old on September 25, 2004.
Katharine Duke
Austin, Travis County, TX 78734
October 17, 1914
September 25, 2004
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Katharine Duke's History: 1914 - 2004

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  • 10/17
    1914

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    October 17, 1914
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  • 09/25
    2004

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    September 25, 2004
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    Katharine Duke lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1914, in the year that Katharine Duke was born, in June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Yugoslavian national. Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to Serbia. Other major powers took sides - and World War I began: Austria declared war on Serbia; Germany on Russia and France; Britain on Germany . . . and on it went until most of the world was embroiled in the war.
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In 1925, she was merely 11 years old when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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