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George Tong
(1907 - 1979)
updated February 06, 2019
George Tong was born on January 12, 1907. He died in October 1979 at 72 years old. We know that George Tong had been residing in Seattle, King County, Washington 98125.
George Tong Biography
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George Tong Obituary
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George Tong passed away in October 1979 at age 72. He was born on January 12, 1907. There is no information about George's family. We know that George Tong had been residing in Seattle, King County, Washington 98125.
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1907 - 1979 World Events
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In 1907, in the year that George Tong was born, radiometric dating, a recently discovered technology that could date rocks, found that the earth was 2.2 billion years old which was dramatically older than previously thought. Later refinements and advancements in science would date the age of the earth at over 4.5 billion years.
In 1916, by the time he was just 9 years old, in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.
In 1938, George was 31 years old when on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."
In 1948, when he was 41 years old, on January 30th, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a member of a Hindu nationalist party who thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to Muslims. The man, Nathuram Godse, shot Gandhi 3 times. He died immediately. The shooter was tried, convicted, and hung in November 1949.
In 1979, in the year of George Tong's passing, 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.
Other Biographies
Other George Tongs
around 1878 - Mar 20, 1919
around 1905 - Apr 16, 1946
Unknown - Mar 24, 1918
around 1891 - Aug 15, 1918
around 1923 - Unknown
around 1901 - Unknown
around 1919 - Unknown
around 1913 - Unknown
Jul 29, 1922 - Jun 10, 1994
around 1922 - Unknown
Unknown - Unknown
1887 - 1958
Unknown - Unknown
1866 - 1931
1855 - 1862
Aug 14, 1926 - Jun 23, 2008
Unknown - Unknown
Unknown - Unknown
around 1902 - Sep 12, 1937
around 1853 - Dec 8, 1905
Other Tongs
Oct 16, 1905 - Dec 14, 2004
Mar 15, 1920 - Feb 21, 2000
Mar 23, 1928 - Nov 6, 2003
Jan 25, 1894 - July 1975
Dec 31, 1936 - Feb 10, 2005
Aug 26, 1903 - May 1984
Dec 12, 1936 - Aug 28, 2010
Jul 1, 1934 - Apr 28, 1993
Jan 18, 1952 - Jul 5, 2006
Jul 19, 1907 - Jul 2, 2001
Dec 31, 1910 - Jul 23, 2003
Nov 9, 1889 - March 1958
Feb 16, 1910 - Jul 22, 1994
Nov 13, 1907 - August 1972
Oct 10, 1922 - Nov 15, 1993
Nov 25, 1971 - Mar 31, 2008
Oct 12, 1914 - Jul 19, 1997
Jun 10, 1909 - May 29, 1997
Apr 26, 1885 - April 1977
Jun 6, 1941 - Jan 16, 2004
Other Bios
Nov 8, 1881 - May 1981
Feb 26, 1927 - Dec 1, 2006
Jan 19, 1913 - Nov 24, 1997
Jan 10, 1910 - January 1984
Jan 24, 1903 - Dec 6, 1989
May 16, 1939 - Oct 1, 1996
Nov 10, 1940 - Jan 7, 2011
Jul 3, 1840 - March 1940
Mar 11, 1907 - Feb 6, 1996
Aug 23, 1941 - Mar 5, 2002
Mar 3, 1942 - Jul 27, 1997
Jun 9, 1942 - Aug 23, 2005
Jun 14, 1936 - Apr 4, 2003
Nov 3, 1914 - Sep 19, 2000
May 30, 1939 - May 22, 2003
Sep 22, 1907 - February 1995
May 4, 1940 - Dec 1, 1991
Apr 5, 1941 - September 1973
Apr 28, 1921 - Dec 28, 1999
Oct 14, 1922 - Nov 10, 2010
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