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Jeanette "Jean" Matousek

Died: Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Age: 91

Jeanette “Jean” Matousek, 91, Lake Geneva, formerly of Chicago, died Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at her residence. Services at 1 p.m., Friday, Dec. 28, at the Bohemian National Cemetery, Chicago. Visitation from 12:30 p.m. to the time of services. The Steinke Funeral Home, Lake Geneva, assisted the family with arrangements.

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Born May 23rd

1820: James Buchanan Eads, engineer of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis

1875: Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president and chairman of the board for General Motors.

1891: Par Lagerkvist, Swedish writer (The Dwarf, Barabbas).

1908: John Bardeen, physicist, co-inventor of the transistor.

1910: Artie Shaw, bandleader and clarinetist.

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1864: Union General Ulysses Grant attempts to outflank Confederate Robert E. Lee in the Battle of North Anna, Virginia.

1900: Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.

1901: American forces capture Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo.

1915: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.

1934: Gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed by Texas Rangers.