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Laurence F Gessner 1942 - 2008

Laurence F Gessner (1942 - 2008)
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Laurence F Gessner
Last Known Residence
Rock Springs, Sweetwater County, Wyoming 82901
Born
August 14, 1942
Death
March 6, 2008
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Laurence F Gessner of Rock Springs, Sweetwater County, Wyoming was born on August 14, 1942, and died at age 65 years old on March 6, 2008.

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Laurence Gessner passed away at age 65 years old on March 6, 2008. Laurence F Gessner of Rock Springs, Sweetwater County, Wyoming was born on August 14, 1942.

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Laurence F Gessner lived 9 years shorter than the average Gessner family member when he died at the age of 65.
The average age of a Gessner family member is 74.
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1942 - 2008 World Events

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In 1942, in the year that Laurence F Gessner was born, on June 17th, Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, which lead to the development of the first atomic bomb. With the support of Canada and the United Kingdom, the Project came to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist born in New York, led the Los Alamos Laboratory that developed the actual bomb. The first artificial nuclear explosion took place near Alamogordo New Mexico on July 16, 1945.

In 1951, by the time he was merely 9 years old, on June 25th, CBS began broadcasting in color. There were well over 10 million televisions by that time. The first show in color was a musical variety special titled "Premiere". Hardly anyone had a color TV that could see the show.

In 1977, at the age of 35 years old, Laurence was alive when on January 21st, President Carter pardoned "draft dodgers" - men who avoided the draft during the Vietnam War. He fulfilled a campaign promise with the pardon. But it only applied to civilian evaders - the estimated 500,000 to 1 million active-duty personnel who went AWOL were not included.

In 1982, he was 40 years old when on September 14th, Princess Grace of Monaco (American actress Grace Kelly), 52, died of injuries when her car plunged off a mountain road. Her 17 year old daughter, Stephanie, was also in the car and suffered serious injuries but recovered. It's believed that the accident was caused when Princess Grace, who was driving, had a mild stroke.

In 1993, when he was 51 years old, on January 20th, William J. Clinton became the 42nd President of the United States. He beat incumbent George H.W. Bush who was seeking his second term. Clinton won 43.01% of the popular vote to Bush's 37.45%. An independent candidate, Ross Perot, won 18.91% - the most votes for an independent candidate since Teddy Roosevelt's run for President in 1912.

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