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Tora Calhoun 1901 - 1978

Tora Calhoun of Stratford, Fairfield County, CT was born on January 13, 1901, and died at age 77 years old in February 1978.
Tora Calhoun
Stratford, Fairfield County, CT 06497
January 13, 1901
February 1978
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  • 01/13
    1901

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    January 13, 1901
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  • 02/dd
    1978

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    February 1978
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    Tora Calhoun lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 77.
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In 1901, in the year that Tora Calhoun was born, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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In 1942, by the time she was 41 years old, on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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