101 - Ruby P. Smith - Chapel Hill Cemetery - OKC, OK
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Ruby Smith was born the same year that the Cullinan Diamond was found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.
Waymark Code: WMJMTZ
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 12/06/2013
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The final resting place of Ruby Smith is at the west side of Chapel Hill Cemetery, at the west end of the section.
Text on marker:
Ruby P. Smith
1905 - 2006
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Ruby's time on earth:
1905: Mata Hari introduces her exotic dance act in Paris.
1915: Twenty-One Demands from Japan to China are made.
1925: The inauguration of Calvin Coolidge as President of the United States becomes the first to be broadcast on radio.
1935: Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1945: The 17th Academy Awards ceremony is held, broadcast via radio for the first time. Best Picture goes to Going My Way.
1955: Claudette Colvin (a fifteen-year-old African-American girl) refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white woman after the driver demands it. She is carried off the bus backwards while being kicked and handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station.
1965: The Sound of Music premieres at the Rivoli Theater in New York City.
1975: The Soyuz 17 crew (Georgi Grechko, Aleksei Gubarev) returns to Earth after 1 month aboard the Salyut 4 space station.
1985: American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
1995: The DVD, an optical disc computer storage media format, is announced.
2006: The 2006 Winter Olympics are held in Turin, Italy.
Location of Headstone: Chapel Hill Cemetery
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