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Laura Dawn (Lee) Gerkan
(born 1960)
updated February 06, 2019
Laura Dawn (Lee) Gerkan was born on November 24, 1960 in Sacramento, California. She was born into the Lee family and married into the Gerkan family. She was born to Shirley Jean Lee (Bolfeta) and William Franklin Lee, with siblings Robert, Elizabeth, and Douglas.
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Laura Gerkan was born on in Sacramento, Sacramento County, California United States
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Laura Dawn (Lee) Gerkan Family Tree
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Laura Gerkan Obituary
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She was born on November 24, 1960 in Sacramento, California. Laura Dawn (Lee) Gerkan was born to Shirley Jean Lee (Bolfeta) and William Franklin Lee, with siblings Robert, Elizabeth, and Douglas.
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1960 World Events
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In 1960, in the year that Laura Dawn (Lee) Gerkan was born, on May 1st, an American CIA U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over the Soviet Union. Powers ejected and survived but was captured. The U.S. claimed that the U-2 was a "weather plane" but Powers was convicted in the Soviet Union of espionage. He was released in 1962 after 1 year, 9 months and 10 days in prison.
In 1977, on January 20th, Jimmy Carter became the 39th President of the United States. Running against incumbent Gerald Ford, he won 50.1% of the popular vote to Ford's 48.0%. He was elected to only one term.
In 1983, on August 30th, the Soviet Union claimed that a South Korean Boeing 747 jetliner (Flight 007), bound for Seoul from New York City, had strayed into Soviet airspace. Saying that they believed it to be a U.S. spy plane, the passenger jet was shot down by a Soviet SU-15 fighter - after it had tracked the airliner for two hours. All 269 passengers (including a U.S. Representative from Georgia) and crew were killed.
In 1993, on February 26th, a truck bomb exploded in the garage under the North Tower of the World Trade Center. While the bomb didn't do what was planned (collapse the North Tower into the South Tower), it did kill six people and injured thousands of people.
In 1997, on June 26th, the first Harry Potter book by J. K. Rowling was released. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was an immediate success and spawned not only sequels but also movies, video games, plays, and amusement park attractions. J.K. Rowling, at the time of the first book a poor single mother, has become a multi-billionaire.
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