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James Frederick Gerdes

James Frederick Gerdes was born on April 2, 1942 in Melbourne, VIC Australia to Ronald Frederick Gerdes and Frances Veronica Sheehan, and has a brother Brian Francis Gerdes. James Gerdes married Frances O'Connor, and has children Peter Edgar Gerdes and Jennifer Lee Gerdes.
James Frederick Gerdes
April 2, 1942
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Alive
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In 1942, in the year that James Frederick Gerdes was born, on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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In 1958, on January 1st, the European Economic Community (Common Market) came into operation. The first members were France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The Common Market was formed as a way to strengthen members' economies and deter wars in Europe.
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