104 - Magdalene Kiriopoulos - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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Magdalene Kiriopoulos was born the same year that George B. Selden was granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
Waymark Code: WMERJQ
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 07/01/2012
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The final resting place of Magdalene is at the center of Rose Hill Burial Park, at the far north end of section 4. Hers is a flat, light grey colored marker with a simple cross etched into the top.
The text on her headstone reads:
Magdalene Kiriopoulos
Oct. 4, 1895
May 18, 2000
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Magdalene's time on earth:
1895: Oscar Hammerstein opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in NYC's Times Square district
1905: The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine
1915: Harry Houdini does one of his straitjacket escape performances
1925: Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the state's public schools
1935: A plebiscite in the Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany
1945: The Holocaust: The evacuation of Auschwitz concentration camp begins
1955: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam
1965: Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang appear on the cover of Time Magazine
1975: Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the opposition UK Conservative Party. Thatcher, 49, is Britain's first female leader of any political party
1985: Nelson Mandela rejects an offer of freedom from the South African government
1995: On an episode of The Jenny Jones Show ("Same-Sex Crushes"), Scott Amedure reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz kills Amedure several days after the show
2000: Millennium Force opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 4
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