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Donald (Don) Edward Sapronetti
About Donald (Don) Edward Sapronetti |
Donald (Don) Edward Sapronetti 3/22/1938 - 5/6/2017 (Shown at age 70)
| Donald (Don) Edward Sapronetti was born on March 22, 1938 in Akron, Ohio and died on May 6, 2017 in San Bernardino, California. He lived to be 79 years old.
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| Marriage | 3/28/1959 | Los Angeles CA | 21 yrs old | Name: Donald E. Sapronetti,
Gender: Male,
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1938,
Age: 21,
Marriage Date: March 28, 1959,
Marriage Place: Los Angeles, California,
Spouse: Gayle L. Powes
Spouse Age: 19 |
| Newspaper | 5/6/2017 | San Bernardino CA | 79 yrs old | Donald Edward Sapronetti, 79, of San Bernardino peacefully passed away at home on Saturday, May 6, 2017. Don was born in Akron, Ohio on March 22, 1938. He was married to his high school sweetheart, Gayle Louise, for 58 years. They were sealed in the Los Angeles Temple in 1972. He ended 35 years of state service as Director of Finance at Cal State San Bernardino. He is survived by his devoted wife and their four children: Sheri Becar (David), Donald Jr. (Denise), Charles, and Patrick. "Papa" will be greatly missed by his 10 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be held on Friday, May 12, 2017 at Bobbitt Memorial Chapel, 1299 E. Highland Ave., from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Family and friends are warmly invited to funeral services at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1475 Northpark Blvd. in San Bernardino, on Saturday, May 13, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. with a 9:00 a.m. viewing. Burial will follow at Hermosa Gardens Cemetery in Colton. Published in San Bernardino Sun on May 9, 2017
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Age | Date | Event |
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1946 |
The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes |
9 |
1947 |
Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor |
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1951 |
The first color television is introduced in the U.S. |
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1952 |
The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen. |
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1957 |
Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S. |
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1960 |
The ruby laser was created by Maiman |
24 |
1962 |
U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth |
27 |
1965 |
The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union |
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1971 |
The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union |
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1974 |
Discovery of "Lucy" in Africa, an almost complete hominid skeleton over 3 million years old, only 3 and a half feet tall but having adult teeth, a small brain, walked upright |
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1975 |
Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography) |
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1979 |
First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination |
43 |
1981 |
AIDS is identified by scientist; The first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, is sent into space. |
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1986 |
Moments after liftoff the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing size astronauts and a New Hampshire teacher. |
51 |
1989 |
An asteroid comes relatively close to colliding with the earth |
52 |
1990 |
Hubble Space Telescope launched; optical defect discovered and repaired later in 1993. |
56 |
1994 |
The world watches comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (S-L 9) colliding with Jupiter |
59 |
1997 |
First Pathfinder vehicle lands on Mars and begin sending first photographs of Martin landscape. These are made available on the internet. |
60 |
1998 |
Construction begins on the International Space Station. |
62 |
2000 |
Successful cloning of animals begins in the early 2000s. |
66 |
2004 |
March 2, 2004 - Mars rover MER-B (Opportunity) confirms to NASA that the area of their landing was once covered in water. |
72 |
2010 |
CERN scientist trap anti-matter for the first time. |
Age | Date | Event |
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1939 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States |
3 |
1941 |
NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers. |
12 |
1950 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later. |
17 |
1955 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL. |
22 |
1960 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public |
25 |
1963 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. |
31 |
1969 |
NEWS HEADLINES: In July, the U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the lunar surface. |
32 |
1970 |
NEWS HEADLINES: U.S. forces invade Cambodia and the Vietnam War continues to escalate. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug overdoses. Four Kent State University students are killed during a Vietnam War protest. |
39 |
1977 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time. |
46 |
1984 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first Macintosh computer with a mouse is launched and begins the computer age as it is shortly followed by the first PC and Microsoft. |
54 |
1992 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The "World Wide Web" (Internet) became available for home use through college and university sponsored "freenets". |
62 |
2000 |
December 28, 2000 - Montgomery Ward, the retail giant since its founding one hundred and twenty-eight years before, announces its intention to cease business. Competition from newer, low-cost retail behemoths such as Wal-Mart lead to its demise. Over the next 10 years Wal-Mart pushes most other 'dime store' businesses to closure. |
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2000 |
November 7, 2000 - George W. Bush, son of the former President, and Vice President Al Gore hold a virtual dead-heat for the presidency, with a disputed vote in Florida holding off the naming of the winner of the President Election until the Supreme Court of the United States voted in favor of Bush on December 12. This ruling gave Florida to the Bush camp by a 527 vote majority, and a victory in the Electoral College, 271-266, despite gaining less popular votes than Gore. |
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2000 |
June 1, 2000 - For the first time since 1851, the United States of America does not participate in a major World's Fair, the Hannover 2000 World Expo, despite a record number, 187, of international participants. President Bill Clinton had withdrawn U.S. participation late in 1999 after agreement to participate in 1997. Congressional apathy toward participation in world events continues a decline in U.S. involvement after the fall of the Soviet Union and victory in the Cold War. A consequence of this policy has led to a rise, among some experts, of anti-American sentiment, and a decline of U.S. influence in diplomatic affairs. Less than half, 18.1 million, of the original attendance estimate, 40 million, visit Hannover's event. |
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2000 |
April 3, 2000 - The ruling in the case of the United States versus Microsoft states that the company did violate anti-trust laws by diminishing the capability of its rivals to compete. |
62 |
2000 |
The 2000 census enumerates a population of 281,421,906, increasing 13.2% since 1990. As regions, the South and West continued to pick up the majority of the increase in population, moving the geographic center of U.S. population to Phelps County, Missouri. |
63 |
2001 |
April 8, 2001 - Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer to hold all four major golf titles simulteneously by winning the Master's tournament in Augusta, Georgia. This followed a remarkable run in 2000 when Woods claimed victory at the final three majors of that season; the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship. |
63 |
2001 |
NEWS HEADLINES: September 11 -- (9 11) -- The World Trade Towers are hit by terrorist flying commercial planes full of passengers. |
64 |
2002 |
February 8, 2002 - Amid tight security due to terrorism concerns, the Winter Olympic Games are opened by President George W. Bush in Salt Lake City, Utah. They would continue without major incident until the closing ceremony on February 24. |
65 |
2003 |
December 13, 2003 - Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq, is captured in a small bunker in Tikrit by the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. General fear of terrorism begins to subside. |
65 |
2003 |
April 9, 2003 - The U.S. coalition siezes control of Baghdad in the Iraq conflict. |
65 |
2003 |
February 1, 2003 - A tragedy at NASA occurs when the Space Shuttle Columbia explodes upon reentry over Texas. All seven astronauts inside are killed. |
66 |
2004 |
February 3, 2004 - The Central Intelligence Agency admits that the imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction (which justified the war on Iraq) was not present before the 2003 Iraq war began. |
67 |
2005 |
August 29, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina strikes the Gulf Coast, inundating the city of New Orleans with water from Lake Pontchetrain when the levees that maintain the below sea level city break. Over one thousand three hundred people perish from Alabama to Louisiana in one of the worst natural disasters to strike the United States. (Picture Below: Damage across the Gulf Coast of the United States after Hurricane Katrina.) |
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2005 |
July 26, 2005 - In the first Space Shuttle flight since the tragedy of 2003, Discovery goes into orbit on a mission that returns to earth safely on August 9. |
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2005 |
United States labor is squeezed by global forces and the United States economy continues to decline. |
73 |
2011 |
March 15, 2011 - Largest recorded earthquake hits Japan and everyone watches the horrifying scenes as survivors post videos taken with their cell phones on YouTube. |
Age | Date | Event |
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1939 |
Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color. |
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1943 |
Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit. |
6 |
1944 |
On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day") |
7 |
1945 |
President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. |
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1954 |
The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency. |
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1962 |
The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba. |
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1966 |
The Black Panther party is founded. |
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1967 |
Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad. |
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1971 |
Charles Manson is found guilt of murder. |
34 |
1972 |
Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal. |
35 |
1973 |
The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam. |
39 |
1977 |
Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president. |
43 |
1981 |
Ronald Reagan is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Republican) |
49 |
1987 |
January 24 - approximately 20,000 protesters march through Cummings, Georgia in all White Forsyth County. |
49 |
1987 |
President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev meet in Washington and sign an agreement calling for the dismantling of all Soviet and US missiles. |
51 |
1989 |
George Bush is elected president. (Republican) |
55 |
1993 |
Bill Clinton is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Democrat) |
56 |
1994 |
O.J. Simpson is chased down by police and later his trial is telecast for the world to watch. |
59 |
1997 |
A robust economy creates the longest prosperity in U.S. history. |
61 |
1999 |
United States budget goes into surplus. |
63 |
2001 |
George W. Bush is elected president. He is the son of George Bush who served as president from 1989-1993. He will serve two terms. (Republican) |
66 |
2004 |
National Museum of the American Indian is established on the mall in Washington DC. |
66 |
2004 |
National Museum of the American Indian is established in Washington DC. |
66 |
2004 |
November 2, 2004 - President George W. Bush wins reelection over Democratic Senator John Kerry from Massachusetts. He wins 50.7% of the popular vote and 286 votes in the Electoral College. |
68 |
2006 |
December 1, 2006 - United States manufacturing capacity and esteem wanes, signalled by the sale of the last shares of his General Motors stock by U.S. billionaire Kirk Kerkorian. |
70 |
2008 |
October 3, 2008 - The United States Congress passes legislation, signed by President Bush, for a $700 billion bailout, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, giving the Treasury Department authority to assist distressed Wall Street and banking businesses of the United States due to the housing, banking, and subprime mortgage crises caused by excessive greed and speculation among Wall Street firms. This economic distress, coupled with oil prices above $140 per barrel during the summer, deepened the world economic crises that had been brewing all year. The bailout was supported by current President George W. Bush and both presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain. |
70 |
2008 |
A major financial crisis and recession begins in earnest. |
71 |
2009 |
October 31, 2009 - The economic recession continues to deepen as jobless claims climb above 10.0%, reaching 10.2% with October's monthly figures. This occurs despite efforts by the Obama administration to ramp up massive government spending pushed by the $780 billion economic stimulus package passed earlier in the year. |
71 |
2009 |
Health care reforms initiated by the new US President, Obama, gives birth to the 'Tea Party' movement. |
79 |
2017 |
Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States. |
Age | Date | Event |
1 |
1939 |
Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun. |
7 |
1945 |
World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. |
51 |
1989 |
The Berlin Wall falls uniting communist East Germany and capitalistic West Germany |
52 |
1990 |
Iraq (Sadam Hussein) invades Kuwait causing the U.N. to impose sanctions. This leads to the Gulf War. |
54 |
1992 |
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is formed. |
55 |
1993 |
South Africa accepts racial equality. |
58 |
1996 |
Pope John Paul II affirmed evolution by natural selection |
61 |
1999 |
Yugoslavia breaks up and Serbia is contained. |
62 |
2000 |
China begins to emerge as an economic giant. |
62 |
2000 |
Internet, cellphones, and social networking (using websites such as Twitter and Facebook) begin to grow in popularity and become standards for most house holds by 2010. |
63 |
2001 |
April 1, 2001 - China-U.S. incident. An American spyplane collides with a fighter plane of China and makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China. The U.S. crew is detained for ten days |
63 |
2001 |
September 11, 2001 - 911 - Islamic fundamentalist terrorists hijack four U.S. airliners and crash them into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City. The attack of two planes levels the World Trade Center and the crash of one plane inflicts serious damage to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, causing nearly 3,000 deaths. The fourth plane is heroically crashed by passengers into a Shanksville, Pennsylvania cornfield when they learn of the plot, preventing destruction of another structure in Washington, D.C., supposed to be the White House or the Capitol building. The plot is attributed to the Al-Qaeda organization led by Osama Bin Laden. |
63 |
2001 |
September 18, 2001 - Anthrax attacks by mail from Princeton, New Jersey against news and government targets begin. Federal officials announce the first case on October 4. World wide concern about terrorism continues to escalate. |
63 |
2001 |
October 7, 2001 - In response to the tragedy of September 11, the United States military, with participation from its ally the United Kingdom, commence the first attack in the War on Terrorism on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. By November 12, the Taliban government leaves the capital, Kabul. |
64 |
2002 |
May 21, 2002 - The United States State Department issues its report in the War on Terror. It states that there are seven nations that a State-Sponsors: Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. |
64 |
2002 |
November 8, 2002 - The United Nations passes Resolution 1441 in a unanimous Security Council vote. It forces Saddam Hussein and Iraq to disarm or face serious consequences. |
64 |
2002 |
November 21, 2002 - NATO invites additional members of the former Soviet bloc to join its membership. Seven nations are included in the invitation; Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. |
65 |
2003 |
March 19, 2003 - The War in Iraq begins with the bombing of Baghdad after additional measures and mandates from the United Nations and the United States coalition fail to gain concessions or the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. The U.S. coalition, upon failure to extract authority from the U.N. for action due to the veto power of France, begin land operations one day later with participation from U.S., British, Australian, and Polish troops. |
68 |
2006 |
February 22, 2006 - In a continuing shift of the retail industry to new platforms, the one billionth song is downloaded from the internet music store, Apple iTunes. This shift comes at the expense of many brick and mortar chains, including Tower Records. The trend of purchasing items via the internet, instead of local stores, continues to grow. |
69 |
2007 |
The world climate and ocean temperatures continue to rise. Both polar caps are shrinking at a record breaking rate. |
69 |
2007 |
January 10, 2007 - President George W. Bush announces a troop surge of 21,500 for the war in Iraq to stem the violence at the request of new commander General Petreus. This controversial policy begins to show positive signs once fully implemented during the summer months, with a reduction in violent attacks against coalition forces and Iraqi civilians. Progress on the political front within the Iraqi national government, however, does not keep pace with positive developments on the military front. |
70 |
2008 |
November 4, 2008 - Barack Obama, Democratic Senator from Illinois, the land of Abraham Lincoln, wins a landslide margin in the Electoral College, 365 to 173 in the election for the 44th President of the USA over John McCain, making him the first African-American president in the history of the United States of America. |
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2010 |
April 20, 2010 - A British Petroleum deep water oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the largest oil spill in the history of the United States, killing eleven workers, and devastating the envirnoment. It also severely damaged the fishing and tourism industries of gulf states. |
73 |
2011 |
March 15, 2011 - The largest recorded earthquake hits Japan followed by a huge tsunami. Three nucular power plants are danaged and remain in critical status for the next six weeks. Manufacturing plants in Japan can no longer produce and impacts the world economy. |
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