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Jay Poel
(1908 - 2007)
updated February 06, 2019
Jay Poel was born on September 19, 1908. He died on August 15, 2007 at 98 years old. We know that Jay Poel had been residing in Holland, Ottawa County, Michigan 49423.
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Jay Poel died on August 15, 2007 at age 98. He was born on September 19, 1908. We are unaware of information about Jay's surviving family. We know that Jay Poel had been residing in Holland, Ottawa County, Michigan 49423.
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1908 - 2007 World Events
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In 1908, in the year that Jay Poel was born, unemployment in the U.S. was at 8.0% and the cost of a first-class stamp was 2 cents while the population in the United States was 88,710,000. The world population was almost 4.4 billion.
In 1937, he was 29 years old when on May 28th, the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge opened to cars. Taking 5 years to build, the 4,200-foot-long suspension bridge was an engineering marvel of its time - 11 men died during construction. The "international orange" color was chosen because it resisted rust and fading. To the present, it is the symbol of the City that is known throughout the world.
In 1952, when he was 44 years old, on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
In 1978, Jay was 70 years old when on November 18th, Jim Jones's Peoples Temple followers committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana - where they had moved, from San Francisco, as a group. Jones was the leader of the cult and ordered his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch, which they did. Whole families (women and children included) died - more than 900 people in all.
In 1998, at the age of 90 years old, Jay was alive when on December 19th, the House of Representatives initiated impeachment charges against U.S. President Bill Clinton. He was subsequently acquitted of these charges by the Senate on February 12th.
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