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Name	Irene Elizabeth Sophia Jacob
Age	65
Born	11 Feb 1903, Cottingham
Died	15 Jun 1968
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Relatives

Image	Name	Relationship to current person	Age	Birth date	Birth place	Death date	Death place	First marriage date	First marriage place
	John (Jack) Lawcock	husband	66	09 Oct 1903	Rotherham, York	08 Jan 1970	Pocklington, Yorkshire	30 Dec 1928	Sct Nicolai Kirke Vejle
	Richard	son	85	17 Jan 1939

World history

★17 Jul 1918
RMS Carpathia, which had rescued the survivors of the RMS Titanic sinking in 1912, was sunk by a German U-boat with the loss of five crew.

★17 Dec 1926
A coup d'état by the Lithuanian military replaced the democratically elected President Kazys Grinius with Antanas Smetona.

★03 Jun 1937
Nearly six months after Edward, Duke of Windsor, abdicated the British throne, he married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a private ceremony near Tours, France.

★17 Sep 1939
Second World War: The Royal Navy lost its first warship in the war when German submarine U-29 torpedoed and sank HMS Courageous.

★02 Jan 1941
Second World War: Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales, was severely damaged by German bombing during the Cardiff Blitz.

★15 Apr 1947
Jackie Robinson, the first African American to break the baseball color line, played his first game in Major League Baseball.

★13 Jun 1952
Soviet warplanes shot down a Swedish military Douglas DC-3A-360 Skytrain carrying out signals intelligence gathering operations, which was followed by the shootdown of a Catalina flying boat searching for the Skytrain three days later.

★27 Jun 1954
Jacobo Árbenz resigned the presidency of Guatemala following a CIA led coup against his administration.

★07 Jan 1955
Marian Anderson became the first African-American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

★15 Sep 1959
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev made a state visit to the United States, becoming the first Soviet leader to do so.

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