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George Roth

George Roth, American gymnast (died 1997)

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Born
April 25, 1911
Died
October 31, 1997
Zodiac sign
Taurus
Birth year
1911

About George Roth

George Helm Roth was an American gymnast and Olympic champion who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and won a gold medal in club swinging, or Indian Clubs as they were often known. He later became a petroleum geologist who in 1954 founded the petroleum consulting company George H. Roth and Associates in Hollywood, California. Managing the company for nearly thirty years, he and his associates helped discover many new California oil fields. Cabeen was a relatively new firm, founded after the war by William Ross Cabeen, a UCLA geology and 1939 Cal Tech petroleum engineering graduate.

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George Roth timeline

  1. Cabeen was a relatively new firm, founded after the war by William Ross Cabeen, a UCLA geology and 1939 Cal Tech petroleum engineering graduate.
  2. He later became a petroleum geologist who in 1954 founded the petroleum consulting company George H.
  3. He later became a petroleum geologist who in 1954 founded the petroleum consulting company George H. Roth and Associates in Hollywood, California.

The world when George Roth was born

George Roth was born in 1911. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1911

  • Best-selling book"The Broad Highway" – Jeffery Farnol

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentFirst Indianapolis 500 race
  • Top headlineTriangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 workers
  • Technology milestoneFirst transcontinental airplane flight (49 days)
  • World population~1.71B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWilliam Howard Taft
  • U.S. population93.4M

1911 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in George Roth's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19112026
Population93.4M341 million

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