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Robert Cortelyou 1884 - 1971

Robert Cortelyou of Higgins, Lipscomb County, Texas was born on February 17, 1884, and died at age 87 years old in June 1971.

Robert Cortelyou

Higgins, Lipscomb County, Texas 79046

February 17, 1884

June 1971

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In 1884, in the year that Robert Cortelyou was born, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.

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In 1908, he was 24 years old when a 7.1 earthquake and the resulting tsunami killed 70,000 to 100,000 people in southern Italy and Sicily. The earthquake, lasting 30 to 40 seconds, occurred in the Strait of Messina which was between the region of Calabria (at the "toe" of Italy) and the island of Sicily and destruction from it occurred in a 186 mile radius. It was the most destructive earthquake ever to hit Europe.

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