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Yong Ok Choe (1921 - 1997)

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Yong Ok Choe
1921 - 1997
Born
March 16, 1921
Death
June 15, 1997
Last Known Residence
Flushing, Queens County, New York 11355
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Yong Ok Choe of Flushing, Queens County, New York was born on March 16, 1921, and died at age 76 years old on June 15, 1997.
Updated: October 3, 2011
Biography ID: 8331740

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Yong Ok Choe passed away at age 76 years old on June 15, 1997. Yong Ok Choe of Flushing, Queens County, New York was born on March 16, 1921.

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Yong Ok Choe lived 5 years longer than the average Choe family member when they died at the age of 76.
The average age of a Choe family member is 71.
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In 1921, in the year that Yong Ok Choe was born, in May, the Emergency Quota Act - or Emergency Immigration Act - was passed. The law restricted the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year. It also established an immigration quota in which only 3 per cent of the total population of any ethnic group already in the USA in 1910, could be admitted to America after 1921. Although the Act was supposed to be temporary, it stayed in effect until 1965.

In 1947, at the age of 26 years old, Yong Ok was alive when in June, the Marshall Plan was proposed to help European nations recover economically from World War II. It passed the conservative Republican Congress in March of 1948. After World War I, the economic devastation of Germany caused by burdensome reparations payments led to the rise of Hitler. The Allies didn't want this to happen again and the Marshall Plan was devised to make sure that those conditions didn't arise again.

In 1973, this person was 52 years old when on January 28th, the Paris Peace Accord was signed - supposedly ending the Vietnam War. Hostilities continued between North and South Vietnam and the U.S. continued to bomb. But by August 15, 1973, 95% of American troops had left Vietnam. The war ended in 1975 with the fall of Saigon.

In 1986, this person was 65 years old when on January 28th, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch. All seven crew members died. The cause of the explosion was later found to be a failed O-ring. The O-ring failure was due to the unusually cold conditions at Cape Canaveral.

In 1997, in the year of Yong Ok Choe's passing, on August 31st, Princess Diana of Great Britain was killed when her car crashed into a pillar in the tunnel under the Pont de l'Alma bridge in Paris. The car she was riding in was trying to evade the paparazzi but it was also discovered later that the driver of the car, who was also killed, had three times the legal limit of alcohol which likely contributed to the accident.

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