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Today in Titanic History Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | 1886 - 1st class survivor Mr George Achilles Harder was born to Victor Achilles Harder and Minnie Mehl Harder in New York City, New York, USA.
1974 - 2nd class survivor Mrs Antonine Marie Mallet died in Paris, France at the age of 86.
1888 - 3rd class passenger Mr Nils Martin Ödahl was born to Ola Öhdal and Hanna Nilsson.
1887 - 3rd class passenger Mr René Aimé Lievens was born in Heldergem, Belgium.
1926 - Able Seaman and survivor Mr William Henry Lionel Weller died in a shipwreck at the age of 44.
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People: First Class: Becker, Ruth Elizabeth
Miss Ruth Elizabeth Becker boarded Titanic at Southampton with her mother Nellie, brother Richard, and sister Marion. They were going from India to Michigan with ticket 230136,39.
When they were loading the boats a steward put Richard and Marion in lifeboat #11 and then informed everyone that the lifeboat was full. Nellie began to plead so that she would be allowed to join her children. She was allowed in but Ruth was left behind. Nellie yelled for her to get in another and she eventually got into #13.
After the sinking, Ruth gave her blanket to one of the stokers and was now shivering in the night air.
Ruth later attended high school and college in Ohio. Then, she became a High School teacher in Kansas and married former classmate Daniel Blanchard. She divorced him 20 years later. When Ruth was younger she refused to talk about the Titanic, but did eventually when she was retired. In March of 1990, she went on her first cruise since 1912 to Mexico. She died later that year at the age of 90 and her remains were scattered over the Titanic's resting place.
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