When Michael Jay Anderson was born on 1 April 1984, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Donald Odel Anderson, was 25 and his mother, Tonya Kay Searle, was 26. He died on 28 July 2001, in Delta, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 17, and was buried in Valley View Cemetery, Huntsville, Jackson Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Senator Jacob Garn became the first sitting member of Congress to travel into space.
Space shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after take off from Cape Canaveral. All seven crew members are killed. Manned space flights are suspended until September 1988.
The Gulf War also known as the First Gulf War, and commonly known as Desert Storm. It was initiated with United Nations authorization, by a coalition force from 34 nations against Iraq, with the expressed purpose of expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait after its invasion and annexation on 2 August 1990.
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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