102 - Alice Lloyd - Oklahoma City, OK
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N 35° 36.405 W 097° 29.602
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Alice Lloyd was born in 1887, the year that Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick invented the contact lens, made of a type of brown glass.
Waymark Code: WMCQGH
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 10/03/2011
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Alice Lloyd's final resting place is in the northwest corner of Memorial Park Cemetery. Hers is a flat grey stone, with a long stem of flowers engraved into both the left and right sides of the marker.
Text on headstone:
Mama
Alice Lloyd
May 16, 1887
Jan. 20, 1990
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Alice's lifetime:
1887: The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park
1897: Dracula is published
1907: Oklahoma becomes a U.S. State
1917: U.S. pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands
1927: The first transatlantic telephone call is made from New York City to London.
1937: Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean
1947: The Canadian Citizenship Act comes into effect.
1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth
1967: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 3 United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "New Left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
1977: Star Wars opens in cinemas and subsequently becomes the then-highest grossing film of all time
1987: Televangelist Jim Bakker scandal
1990: Twelve paintings, collectively worth $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers. This is the largest art theft in US history, and the paintings (as of 2011) have not been recovered.
Location of Headstone: Memorial Park Cemetery, section 9
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