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Louis 'Red' Defabio
1916 - 1990

Louis 'Red' Defabio was born about 1916 in Akron, Ohio and died about 1990 in an unknown place. Dates for birth and death are estimated. He lived to be about 74 years old.

Census	1/1/1925	New York NY	9 yrs old
West 163rd St. -463-Anthony Defabio (age 48), Marie Defabio (43), Carlo Defabio (14), John Defabio (11), Louis Difabio (9), Mary Difabio (6), brother -Tony Marini (38) & brother -Louis Defabio (50). Anthony and Maria were born in Italy and have lived in the US eighteen years. Tony and Louis were born in Italy and have lived in the US twenty years. Tony is an Ice Dealer, Anthony and Louis are a building laborer.
Census	1/1/1930	New York NY	14 yrs old
426-Anthony Defabio (age 53), Marie Defabio (48), Carlo Defabio (18), John Defabio (16), Louis Difabio (14), Mary Difabio (10), Anthony and Maria were born in Italy, they were married at age 27 and 18. Anthony immigrated in 1907 and Marie in 1911. Anthony is a brick layer.
Census	1/1/1940	Bronx NY (New York County)	24 yrs old
1331, #73 -Joseph Depalma (age 54), Margaret Depalma (52), Albert Depalma (20), Sylvia Depalma (18), Eleanore Depalma (17), Harold Depalma (8), Josephine Defabio (32), Joseph Defabio (30) & Louis Defabio (26). They rent their home, personal value $50. Joseph Depalma was born in Italy. Margaret, Josephine, Joseph and Louis were born in CT, all others in NY. Joseph Depalma is a house painter. Joseph and Louis are clerks at the A&P. Josephine works in the clerical dept. at the NY Tel Co.
Newspaper	1/1/1959	New York NY	43 yrs old
Rochester, New York, City Directory, 1959 -Name: Louis Defabio Street Address: 59 Locust Residence Place: Rochester, New York Occupation: Brewery Worker

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Age	Date	Event
7	1923	Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
7	1923	Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
8	1924	Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
10	1926	Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
11	1927	The first television transmission was announced in England
12	1928	Big bang theory was introduced
20	1936	The first regular television broadcast happens in England
22	1938	Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
30	1946	The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
31	1947	Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
35	1951	The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
36	1952	The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
41	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.
44	1960	The ruby laser was created by Maiman
46	1962	U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
49	1965	The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
55	1971	The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union
58	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
59	1975	Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography)
63	1979	First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination
65	1981	AIDS is identified by scientist; The first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, is sent into space.
70	1986	Moments after liftoff the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing size astronauts and a New Hampshire teacher.
73	1989	An asteroid comes relatively close to colliding with the earth
74	1990	Hubble Space Telescope launched; optical defect discovered and repaired later in 1993.

Age	Date	Event
1	1917	NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism.
3	1919	NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.
22	1938	NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
23	1939	NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
25	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.
34	1950	NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
39	1955	NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
44	1960	NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
47	1963	NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
53	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.
54	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.
61	1977	NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time.
68	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.

Age	Date	Event
11	1927	Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
13	1929	Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
14	1930	Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
16	1932	Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
17	1933	Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone!
18	1934	Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
18	1934	Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains.
19	1935	Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
23	1939	Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
27	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.
28	1944	On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
29	1945	President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
38	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.
46	1962	The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
50	1966	The Black Panther party is founded.
51	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.
55	1971	Charles Manson is found guilt of murder.
56	1972	Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal.
57	1973	The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam.
61	1977	Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president.
65	1981	Ronald Reagan is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Republican)
71	1987	President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev meet in Washington and sign an agreement calling for the dismantling of all Soviet and US missiles.
71	1987	January 24 - approximately 20,000 protesters march through Cummings, Georgia in all White Forsyth County.
73	1989	George Bush is elected president. (Republican)

Age	Date	Event
1	1917	Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.
3	1919	The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.
4	1920	Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.
22	1938	Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
23	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.
29	1945	World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
73	1989	The Berlin Wall falls uniting communist East Germany and capitalistic West Germany
74	1990	Iraq (Sadam Hussein) invades Kuwait causing the U.N. to impose sanctions. This leads to the Gulf War.

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Florence 'Flo' Antonucci / George
Born on August 8, 1919 and died on December 10, 1950

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