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Leon Gibbs 1942 - 1987

Leon Gibbs was born on January 9, 1942, and died at age 45 years old in January 1987. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Leon Gibbs.
Leon Gibbs
January 9, 1942
January 1987
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    1942

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    January 9, 1942
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  • 01/dd
    1987

    Death

    January 1987
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    Leon Gibbs lived 28 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 44.
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In 1942, in the year that Leon Gibbs was born, on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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In 1958, when he was 16 years old, on January 31st, Explorer I, the United States' answer to Sputnik I (and 2,) was launched. America had entered the Space Race. The first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, it remained in orbit until 1970.
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