1930 - Benton Harbor, Michigan
Name: Richard Lambrecht
Birth Year: abt 1930
[abt 1929]
Gender: Male
Race: White
BirthPlace: Michigan
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Home in 1930: Benton Harbor, Berrien, Michigan, USA
Map of Home: View Map
Street address: McAllister Avenue
Ward of City: First pt of
House Number: 1070
Dwelling Number: 274
Family Number: 293
Attended School: No
Father's BirthPlace: Michigan
Mother's BirthPlace: Russia
Household Members:
Name Age
George Lambrecht 37
Huldina Lambrecht 32
August Winkler 11
Richard Lambrecht 0
Irving Steinke 26
Adeline Steinke 21
1934 - The metal beverage can is invented (American Can Co., United States)
1940 - April - 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
The microwave oven was invented accidentally in 1945 by Percy Spencer, a Raytheon engineer. While testing a magnetron, he noticed microwaves melted a candy bar in his pocket. Experimenting further, he discovered microwaves could cook food quickly. Raytheon patented the process, and by 1947, they built the first commercial microwave oven, called the 'Radarange.' Initially used in commercial settings, microwaves becomes affordable for home use by the 1960s and 1970s, revolutionizing cooking.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis was a tense 13-day standoff in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S. coast. The crisis is considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. It began when American spy planes discovered the missiles, leading to a U.S. naval blockade of Cuba and intense negotiations. The crisis ended when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba and secretly agreeing to remove American missiles from Turkey.
1963 - I Have a Dream Speech - Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963.
June 17, 1972 – August 9, 1974 - Watergate Scandal began with the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., in 1972. Members of President Richard Nixon's administration attempted to cover up their involvement. The scandal led to the discovery of multiple abuses of power by the Nixon administration, the resignation of President Nixon in 1974, and the indictment of several administration officials.
1973 - January 22 - Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 and Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179: The U.S. Supreme Court declares that the Constitution protects women’s right to terminate an early pregnancy, thus making abortion legal in the U.S.
1973 - March 29 - The last United States soldier leaves Vietnam
The cell phone was invented by Martin Cooper of Motorola. On April 3, 1973, he made the first handheld mobile phone call with the Motorola DynaTAC. This device weighed 2.5 pounds and was 10 inches long, offering 30 minutes of talk time and requiring 10 hours to charge. The first commercial cell phone was released in 1983, revolutionizing communication and leading to the modern smartphones we use today.
1981 - June 5 - First reported case of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
1986 - January 28 - Space Shuttle Challenger accident - The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when the shuttle broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members.
1989 - The World Wide Web is invented at CERN (Tim Berners-Lee, UK)
2001 - September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Coordinated terrorist attacks by the extremist group al-Qaeda on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, leading to significant changes in U.S. domestic and foreign policy, including the War on Terror.
Death
Name: Richard George Lambrecht
[Richard G Lambrecht]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 20 Apr 1929
Birth Place: Benton Harbor, Michigan
[Benton Harbo]
Death Date: 28 Mar 2003
Father: George Lambrecht
Mother: Huldena Steinke
SSN: 378248684
Notes: Jan 1944: Name listed as RICHARD GEORGE LAMBRECHT; 08 Apr 2003: Name listed as RICHARD G LAMBRECHT
Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Obituary Information
Name: Richard Lambrecht
Event Type: Obituary
Event Date: 28 Mar 2003
Event Place: St. Joseph, Michigan, United States
Residence Place: St. Joseph, Michigan
Gender: Male
Age: 73
Birth Year (Estimated): 1930
Death Date: 28 Mar 2003
Death Place: Kalamazoo
Newspaper: Herald-Palladium, The
Affiliate Name: GenealogyBank, Inc.
Digital Folder Number: 101971891
Image Number: 00439
'United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014,' database with images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:QKRG-W4SV : accessed 3 January 2020), Richard Lambrecht, St. Joseph, Michigan, United States, 28 Mar 2003; from 'Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today),' database, GenealogyBank.com (www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Herald-Palladium, The, born-digital text.
Birth — 1929
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