Paul A Jurcak (1926 - 1992)

Detroit, Michigan, USA in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States
Paul Jurcak's Biography
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A veteran of World War II, Paul served in the United States Marines, enlisting in 1944 and being discharged in 1946.
Paul Jurcak married Roseanna Milko (1927 - 2012) on January 20, 1951, in Detroit Michigan. They had 13 children: six daughters and seven sons. See Paul A Jurcak: Obituary.
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In 1926, in the year that Paul A Jurcak was born, on November 15th, NBC was founded. It was the U.S.'s first major broadcast network. Ownership of the network was split between RCA (a majority partner at 50%), its founding corporate parent General Electric (which owned 30%), and Westinghouse (which owned the remaining 20%).
In 1952, when he was 26 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 1966, when he was 40 years old, on July 1st, Medicare became available after President Johnson signed into law the Medicare Act in 1965. President Truman had received the first Medicare card since he had been the first to propose national healthcare law. insurance.
In 1972, at the age of 46 years old, Paul was alive when on September 5th, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, with the assistance of German neo-nazis, kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich. The attackers crept into the Olympic Village and abducted the athletes while they were sleeping. A German policeman was also killed.
In 1992, in the year of Paul A Jurcak's passing, in April, Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia. The newly created Bosnian Serb army then began a campaign against Muslim Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats - killing, raping, torturing, beating and robbing - and resulting in the deaths of over 100,000.