100 - Harold O. Spangler - Chapel Hill Cemetery - OKC, OK
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Harold Spangler was born the same year of the Nimrod Expedition: Ernest Shackleton set sail from New Zealand on the Nimrod for Antarctica.
Waymark Code: WMJGTX
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 11/17/2013
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The final resting place of Harold Spangler is near the center of Chapel Hill Cemetery, just east of the main drive.
Text on marker:
Spangler
Harold O.
1908 - 2008
Lova B.
1909 - 1993
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Harold's time on earth:
1908: Wilbur Wright flies in France for the first time demonstrating true controlled powered flight in Europe.
1918: Suspects in the Chicago Restaurant Poisonings are arrested, and more than 100 waiters are taken into custody, for poisoning restaurant customers with a lethal powder called Mickey Finn.
1928: The animated short Plane Crazy is released by Disney Studios in Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse
1938: Winston Churchill, in a broadcast address to the United States, condemns the Munich Agreement as a defeat and calls upon America and western Europe to prepare for armed resistance against Hitler.
1948: Physicists Ralph Asher Alpher and George Gamow publish the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper about the Big Bang.
1958: The 30th Academy Awards ceremony takes place; The Bridge on the River Kwai wins seven awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture.
1968: The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
1978: California Jam II is held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, attracting more than 300,000 fans
1988: The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1998: Bear Grylls, 23, becomes the youngest British climber to scale Mount Everest
2008: Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States, and becomes the first African-American President-elect
Location of Headstone: Chapel Hill Cemetery
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