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N 36° 16.693 W 097° 16.220
14S E 655348 N 4016195
Hilda Marshall was born the same year that The Grand Duchy of Finland became the first nation to include the right of women to stand as candidates when it adopted universal suffrage
Waymark Code: WMJCZ8
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 11/01/2013
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The final resting place of Hilda Marshall is at the northwest corner of Grace Hill Cemetery, at the far southwest corner of the section. Hilda has a horizontal, double marker that she shares with her spouse Harry W.
Text on marker:
Marshall
Hilda L.
1906 - 2006
Harry W.
1898 - 1967
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Hilda's time on earth:
1906: The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloon United States, lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire, England.
1916: President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa; the 13th Cavalry regiment enters Mexican territory.
1926: Roald Amundsen flies over the North Pole.
1936: Start of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge in the Soviet Union.
1946: Laurence Olivier's Henry V opens in the United States nearly 2 years after its release in England. It is the first Shakespeare film in color, and critics hail it as the finest film of a Shakespeare play ever made.
1956: 96 U.S. Congressmen sign the Southern Manifesto, a protest against the 1954 Supreme Court ruling (Brown v. Board of Education) that desegregated public education.
1966: Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
1976: The 1976 Winter Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria.
1986: Pixar Animation Studios is opened.
1996: Pokémon Red and Green was released in Japan as the first game in the world famous Pokémon series.
2006: Former Beatle Paul McCartney turns 64 after writing "When I'm Sixty-Four" at age 16.
Location of Headstone: Grace Hill Cemetery
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