101 - Millie Rupp - Grace Hill Cemetery - Perry, OK
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Millie Rupp was born the same year that the Martha Washington Hotel (in NYC), opens. It is the first hotel exclusively for women.
Waymark Code: WMJCV7
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 10/31/2013
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The final resting place for Millie Rupp is at the north side of Grace Hill Cemetery at the south end of the section.
Text on marker:
Rupp
Millie
Mar. 1, 1903
Aug. 3, 2004
Rudolph A.
Aug. 17, 1895
Jan. 9, 1981
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Millie's time on earth:
1903: First Tour de France bicycle race, won by Maurice Garin.
1913: Woodrow Wilson succeeds William Howard Taft as President of the United States.
1923: Hockey Night in Canada is first broadcast on the Toronto Star's private station CFCA, making the first hockey broadcast ever.
1933: The Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "Bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ends on March 13).
1943: Duke Ellington plays at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the first time.
1953: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
1963: The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique launches the reawakening of the Women's Movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
1973: Roe v. Wade: The U.S. Supreme Court overturns state bans on abortion.
1983: Motown celebrates its 25th anniversary and has the television special Motown 25 during which Michael Jackson performed "Billie Jean" and introduces to the world the moonwalk.
1993: The 65th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Unforgiven winning Best Picture.
2004: NASA announces that the Mars rover MER-B (Opportunity) has confirmed that its landing area was once drenched in water.
Location of Headstone: Grace Hill Cemetery
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