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Ester Marie Gracik
4/12/1927 - 4/1/1993
(Shown at age 23)

Ester Marie Gracik was born on April 12, 1927 in Akron, Summit County, Ohio and died on April 1, 1993 in Akron, Summit County, Ohio. She lived to be 66 years old.

She first married Joe Sapronetti (div), later married Ralph Esposito.

Marriage	1/1/1942	WV (Brooke County)	14 yrs old
Name: Esther Marie Gracik, Gender: Female, Spouse's Name: Ralph Esposito, Spouse Gender: Male, Marriage Date: 1942, Marriage Place: Brooke
Marriage	1/1/1947	Akron OH (Summit County)	19 yrs old
Name: Esther Gracik Esposito, Spouse: Giuseppe Sapronetti Gender: Female, Marriage Age: 20, Birth Date: April 12, 1927, Birth Place: Akron, Ohio, Marriage Date: 1947, Marriage Place: Summit, Ohio, Father: John Gracik, Mother: Grace Thompson,
Marriage	8/11/1951	Akron OH (Summit County)	24 yrs old
Name: Esther Marie Gracik Sapronetti, Spouse: Ralph Esposito, Gender: Female, Marriage Age: 24, Birth Date: April 12, 1927, Birth Place: Akron, Ohio, Marriage Date: Aug. 11, 1951, Marriage Place: Summit, Ohio, Father: John Gracik, Mother: Helen Thompson,
Death Certificate	4/1/1993	Akron OH (Summit County)	66 yrs old
Name Esther Marie Esposito Birth: April 12, 1927 , Akron, Summit, Ohio gender: Female, Race: White, death Time: 08:10 PM, Death date: April 1, 1993, Death Place: Akron, Summit, Ohio, Certificate: 031458, Age at Death: 65, Hospital Status: Hospital/Inpatient, Father's Surname: Gracik, Mother's Maiden Name: Thompson, Marital Status: Married, Education: 1 year college, Industry of Decedent: Hospitals, Occupation of Decedent: Radiologic technicians

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Age	Date	Event
1	1928	Big bang theory was introduced
9	1936	The first regular television broadcast happens in England
11	1938	Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
19	1946	The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
20	1947	Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
24	1951	The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
25	1952	The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
30	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.
33	1960	The ruby laser was created by Maiman
35	1962	U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
38	1965	The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
44	1971	The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union
47	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
48	1975	Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography)
52	1979	First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination
54	1981	AIDS is identified by scientist; The first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, is sent into space.
59	1986	Moments after liftoff the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing size astronauts and a New Hampshire teacher.
62	1989	An asteroid comes relatively close to colliding with the earth
63	1990	Hubble Space Telescope launched; optical defect discovered and repaired later in 1993.

Age	Date	Event
11	1938	NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
12	1939	NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
14	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.
23	1950	NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
28	1955	NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
33	1960	NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
36	1963	NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
42	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.
43	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.
50	1977	NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time.
57	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.
65	1992	NEWS HEADLINES: The "World Wide Web" (Internet) became available for home use through college and university sponsored "freenets".

Age	Date	Event
2	1929	Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
3	1930	Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
5	1932	Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
6	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!
7	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.
7	1934	Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
8	1935	Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
12	1939	Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
16	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.
17	1944	On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
18	1945	President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
27	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.
35	1962	The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
39	1966	The Black Panther party is founded.
40	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.
44	1971	Charles Manson is found guilt of murder.
45	1972	Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal.
46	1973	The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam.
50	1977	Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president.
54	1981	Ronald Reagan is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Republican)
60	1987	January 24 - approximately 20,000 protesters march through Cummings, Georgia in all White Forsyth County.
60	1987	President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev meet in Washington and sign an agreement calling for the dismantling of all Soviet and US missiles.
62	1989	George Bush is elected president. (Republican)
66	1993	Bill Clinton is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Democrat)

Age	Date	Event
11	1938	Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
12	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.
18	1945	World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
62	1989	The Berlin Wall falls uniting communist East Germany and capitalistic West Germany
63	1990	Iraq (Sadam Hussein) invades Kuwait causing the U.N. to impose sanctions. This leads to the Gulf War.
65	1992	North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is formed.
66	1993	South Africa accepts racial equality.

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Giuseppe 'Pepi' 'Joe' Sapronetti
Born on July 9, 1924 and died on October 24, 2011

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