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Major Gates 1911 - 1984

Major Gates of Newport News, Newport News City County, Virginia was born on September 10, 1911, and died at age 72 years old in February 1984.

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Newport News, Newport News City County, Virginia 23607
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In 1911, in the year that Major Gates was born, the first Indianapolis 500 was run in May. Ray Harroun was the winner - he was an engineer and had retired from racing but he came back for this race. After the race, he retired for good. The purse was $27,550 - the largest offered up to that time - and Harroun received $10,000 for first place. His average time was 74.602 mph.
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In 1926, he was merely 15 years old when on November 15th, NBC was founded. It was the U.S.'s first major broadcast network. Ownership of the network was split between RCA (a majority partner at 50%), its founding corporate parent General Electric (which owned 30%), and Westinghouse (which owned the remaining 20%).
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Gates, Cyrus (Jul 12, 1798 - Jul 5, 1883) Gates, William (Born Nov 30, 1925) Gates, Dora (Jan 15, 1903 - Jan 1993) Gates, Erma (Aug 30, 1881 - Jan 1964) Gates, Martha (Mar 21, 1890 - Dec 1979) Gates, Frances (Jul 9, 1901 - Mar 1981) Gates, Everett (Mar 6, 1913 - May 1978) Gates, Grace (Jun 30, 1905 - Jan 1984) Gates, George (Mar 12, 1909 - Jan 5, 1995) Gates, George (Jun 24, 1912 - Dec 9, 1992)
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