Leo E. Pearson (misspelled as Leo F. Pearson on the Find a Grave website) was born on June 15, 1889, and died on October 25, 1993; he is interred in the Greek section of the cemetery (
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Some Memorable Events during his Birth Year (1889):
* January 15 – The Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia.
* February 22 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
* March 31 – The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated (opens May 6). At 300 m, its height exceeds the previous tallest structure in the world by 130 m. Contemporary critics regard it as aesthetically displeasing.
* April 20 – Adolf Hitler is born at Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary on the border with Bavaria, a town where his father Alois Hitler is a customs official.
* June – Vincent van Gogh paints The Starry Night at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
* June 8 – The Wall Street Journal is established.
* June 19 – A Neapolitan baker named Raffaele Esposito invents the Pizza Margherita, named after the queen consort of Italy Margherita of Savoy. This is the forerunner of the modern pizza.
* September 23 – The Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market Hanafuda playing cards.
* October 6 – The Moulin Rouge cabaret opens in Paris.
* November 2 - North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states, respectively.
* November 8 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
* November 11 – Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
* November 23 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
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Some Memorable Events during his Death Year (1993):
* January 1 - Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: The Czech Republic and Slovakia separate in the so-called Velvet Divorce.
* January 20 – Bill Clinton succeeds George H. W. Bush as the 42nd President of the United States.
* February 5 – Belgium becomes a federal monarchy rather than a unitary kingdom.
* February 26 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing 6 and injuring over 1,000.
* February 28 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations. Four agents and five Davidians die in the raid and a 51-day standoff begins.
* April 19 - A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including David Koresh.
* April 22 – In Washington, D.C., the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated.
* June 23 – In Manassas, Virginia, Lorena Bobbitt cuts off the penis of her husband John Wayne Bobbitt.
* June 24 - A Unabomber bomb injures computer scientist David Gelernter at Yale University.
* July 12 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off Hokkaido, Japan launches a devastating tsunami that kills 202 on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido.
* December 8 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs into law the North American Free Trade Agreement.
* December 10 – id Software releases Doom, a seminal first-person shooter that uses advanced 3D graphics for computer games.
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