100 - Berle A. Swagerty - Chapel Hill Cemetery - OKC, OK
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N 35° 34.420 W 097° 40.185
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Berle Swagerty was born the same year of the start of publication of Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys in London. The book will over time sell over 100 million copies and effectively begin the worldwide Boy Scout movement.
Waymark Code: WMJGDG
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 11/15/2013
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The final resting place of Berle A. Swagerty is at the south side of Chapel Hill Cemetery, just east of the main drive. He shares a marker with his wife, Freda.
Text on marker:
Swagerty
Berle A.
1908 - 2008
Freda L.
1912 - 2000
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Berle's time on earth:
1908: The first around-the-world car race, the 1908 New York to Paris Race, begins.
1918: Release in the United States of the film The Glorious Adventure featuring Mammy Lou who becomes one of the oldest people ever to star in a film, at a claimed age of 114.
1928: The first machine-sliced and machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chillicothe, Missouri, using Otto Frederick Rohwedder's technology.
1938: The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
1948: Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
1958: The Tybee Bomb, a 7,600 pound (3,500 kg) Mark 15 hydrogen bomb, is lost in the waters off Savannah, Georgia.
1968: The 1968 Winter Olympics are held in Grenoble, France.
1978: St. Paul, Minnesota becomes the second U.S. city to repeal its gay rights ordinance after Anita Bryant's successful 1977 anti-gay campaign in Dade County, Florida.
1988: Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
1998: The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.
2008: An exploding star halfway across the visible universe becomes the farthest known object ever visible to the naked eye
Location of Headstone: Chapel Hill Cemetery
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