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Frank Lesnefsky (1900 - 1972)

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Frank Lesnefsky
1900 - 1972
Born
September 2, 1900
Death
March 1972
Last Known Residence
Peckville, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania 18452
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Frank Lesnefsky of Peckville, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania was born on September 2, 1900, and died at age 71 years old in March 1972.
Updated: October 6, 2011
Biography ID: 23119878

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Frank Lesnefsky passed away at age 71 years old in March 1972. Frank Lesnefsky of Peckville, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania was born on September 2, 1900.

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1900 - 1972 World Events

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In 1900, in the year that Frank Lesnefsky was born, a massive hurricane, known as the Great Galveston hurricane, hit Galveston Texas. Winds hit up to 145 miles an hour (category 4) and it remains the single most deadly event in U.S. history. Between 6,000 and 12,000 died (most estimates are around 8,000 dead). The population of Galveston at the time was about 36,000 people in 1900.

In 1917, at the age of 17 years old, Frank was alive when the U.S. Virgin Islands were purchased from Denmark in January. While they are U.S. citizens, Virgin Islanders are ineligible to vote for the President of the United States.

In 1924, Frank was 24 years old when J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.

In 1961, at the age of 61 years old, Frank was alive when on January 20th, John F. Kennedy became the 35th President of the United States. He had previously been a U.S. Senator and a Congressman, both from the state of Massachusetts, as well as a Naval lieutenant in World War II.

In 1972, in the year of Frank Lesnefsky's passing, on September 5th, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, with the assistance of German neo-nazis, kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich. The attackers crept into the Olympic Village and abducted the athletes while they were sleeping. A German policeman was also killed.

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