100 - Jewel M. Vaughn - Chapel Hill Cemetery - OKC, OK
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Jewel Vaughn was born the same year that Ernest Shackleton set sail from New Zealand on the Nimrod for Antarctica.
Waymark Code: WMJHZ3
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 11/22/2013
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The final resting place of Jewel Vaughn is at the southeast side of Chapel Hill Cemetery. She has a horizontal, double marker that is shared with her spouse Vestal.
Text on marker:
Vaughn
Vestal J.
1907 - 1985
Jewel M.
1908 - 2008
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Jewel's time on earth:
1908: Emile Cohl makes the first fully animated film, Fantasmagorie
1918: The United States Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time (DST goes into effect on March 31).
1928: The 1928 Winter Olympics are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first as a separate event. Sonja Henie of Norway wins her first gold medal in women's figure skating.
1938: Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1948: McCollum v. Board of Education: The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the U.S. Constitution.
1958: The satellite Sputnik 2 disintegrates in space after several orbits.
1968: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson edges out antiwar candidate Eugene J. McCarthy in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, a vote which highlights the deep divisions in the country, and the party, over Vietnam.
1978: Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1988: The comic strip FoxTrot makes its first appearance in US newspapers.
1998: The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted for the 6th time by Billy Crystal, is held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Titanic wins Best Picture.
2008: Surgeons at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital perform the first operations using bionic eyes, implanting them into 2 blind patients.
Location of Headstone: Chapel Hill Cemetery
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