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Melva Kotrba 1915 - 2009

Melva Kotrba of Chicago, Cook County, IL was born on February 27, 1915, and died at age 94 years old on August 1, 2009.
Melva Kotrba
Chicago, Cook County, IL 60631
February 27, 1915
August 1, 2009
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Melva Kotrba's History: 1915 - 2009

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  • 02/27
    1915

    Birthday

    February 27, 1915
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  • 08/1
    2009

    Death

    August 1, 2009
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Melva Kotrba lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 94.
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In 1915, in the year that Melva Kotrba was born, the Germans first used poison gas as a weapon at the second Battle of Ypres during World War I. While noxious gases had been used since ancient times, this was the first use of poisonous gas - in this case, lethal chlorine gas - in modern war. Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.
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In 1943, by the time she was 28 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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