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About Robert Reidt
- Robert Reidt (June 25, 1892 – March 1966) was a German-born American who is best known for promoting a prediction that the world would end on February 6, 1925.Reidt was a house painter living in Long Island, New York, and heard about Californian Margaret Rowen's claim that the day of judgment was coming on February 6, 1925.
- Calling himself the "Apostle of Doom", he sold all his assets to spread word of the coming event.
- After nothing happened at the appointed hour outside his small rented abode in East Patchogue, he later blamed photo flashbulbs for obscuring a supposedly visible sign in the skies.
- He then suggested the end was coming in the following week.
- The events received regular front-page coverage in The New York Times and nationwide news coverage.In February 1926, Reidt made a new prediction that a fireball would soon strike New York City.
- This event also failed to occur.He made yet another unsuccessful prediction of doom in 1932.The last contemporary press coverage that Reidt received was in 1938, in connection with a planetarium trying to publicize a show about end of the world predictions.
- Reidt died at age 73 in March 1966 in Florida.
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