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Bruce J Zekas (1944 - 2002)

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Bruce J Zekas
1944 - 2002
Born
October 17, 1944
Death
July 27, 2002
Last Known Residence
Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin 53704
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Bruce J Zekas of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin was born on October 17, 1944, and died at age 57 years old on July 27, 2002.
Updated: November 4, 2011
Biography ID: 56142947

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Bruce Zekas passed away at age 57 years old on July 27, 2002. Bruce J Zekas of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin was born on October 17, 1944.

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Bruce J Zekas lived 17 years shorter than the average Zekas family member when he died at the age of 57.
The average age of a Zekas family member is 74.
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1944 - 2002 World Events

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In 1944, in the year that Bruce J Zekas was born, on December 16th, The Battle of the Bulge began in the Ardennes forest on the Western Front. Lasting for a little over a month, the battle began with a surprise attack by Germany on the Allied forces The U.S. suffered their highest casualties of any operation in World War II - 89,000 were casualties, around 8,600 killed - but Germany also severely depleted their resources and they couldn't be replaced.

In 1952, when he was just 8 years old, on February 6th, George VI of England died from a coronary thrombosis and complications due to lung cancer. His eldest daughter, age 25, immediately ascended the throne as Elizabeth II and her coronation was on June 2 1953.

In 1968, at the age of 24 years old, Bruce was alive when on June 5th, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles by Sirhan after celebrating his win in the California presidential primary. He died the next day at Good Samaritan Hospital.

In 1979, he was 35 years old when on March 28th, a partial nuclear meltdown occurred at the power plant at Three Mile Island Pennsylvania. Radiation leaked into the environment, resulting in a rating of 5 on a scale of 7 ("Accident With Wider Consequences") . It ended up costing $1 billion to clean up the site.

In 1983, when he was 39 years old, physicist Sally K. Ride, 32, became the first US woman astronaut in space as a crew member aboard space shuttle Challenger on June 18th. She was also the youngest (32) astronaut to go into space. Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space in 1963.

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