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Ruth Ann Shank 1952 - 2008

Ruth Ann Shank of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana was born on May 18, 1952, and died at age 56 years old on June 21, 2008.
Ruth Ann Shank
Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana 47978
May 18, 1952
June 21, 2008
Female
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  • 05/18
    1952

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    May 18, 1952
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  • 06/21
    2008

    Death

    June 21, 2008
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    Ruth Ann Shank lived 18 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 56.
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In 1952, in the year that Ruth Ann Shank was born, on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
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In 1960, she was just 8 years old when on May 1st, an American CIA U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over the Soviet Union. Powers ejected and survived but was captured. The U.S. claimed that the U-2 was a "weather plane" but Powers was convicted in the Soviet Union of espionage. He was released in 1962 after 1 year, 9 months and 10 days in prison.
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