In 1967, in the year of Gerald Snook's passing, on November 7th, President Johnson signed legislation passed by Congress that created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which would later become PBS and NPR. That evening, Egypt launched an air assault on Israel. In 1948, he was 48 years old when on May 14th, the State of Israel was proclaimed by David Ben-Gurion, who became Israel's first Premier, and the U.S. tell you.that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry." It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day. The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. In 1938, Gerald was 38 years old when on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). Although he had received a blow to the area a couple of days previously, the connection between the blow and his appendicitis is disputed. ![]() He died of complications from a ruptured appendix. He was president of the Society of American Magicians and stringently upheld professional ethics. Houdini was the most famed magician of his time and perhaps of all time, especially for his acts involving escapes - from handcuffs, straitjackets, chains, ropes slung from skyscrapers, and more. In 1926, when he was 26 years old, on October 31st, Harry Houdini died in Michigan. ![]() These are concepts that are still used by modern psychology. Although he was a medical doctor, he was fascinated with the psyche and hypothesized the existence of the id, the ego, the superego, the libido, the unconscious, the Oedipus complex, and more. ![]() Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud in May of 1856, is the "father of psychoanalysis". In 1900, in the year that Gerald Snook was born, the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud published his book (written in 1899) "The Interpretation of Dreams". Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Gerald's lifetime.
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