14 DAY TRIAL // A man from the Niagara falls area in New York has received the Guinness World Records title for “World's oldest man.”
Salustiano Sanchez-Blazquez, nicknamed “Shorty” is 112 years old, and he was awarded the title after the demise of 116-year-old Jiroemon Kimura of Japan. As I documented, the world's oldest person is 115-year-old Misao Okawa, also a Japan resident.
Sanchez-Blazquez was born in El Tejado de Bejar, Spain on June 8, 1901. He moved to Cuba at 17 and took a job as a cane worker. As of 1920, he started working as a miner in Lynch, Kentucky.
Upon leaving the mines, he relocated to Niagara Falls and got married in 1934. He jokingly credits bananas and six Anacin tablets a day for his longevity.
He now has a large family formed of seven grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.