100 - Jane C. Blakely - Jacksonville, FL
N 30° 22.273 W 081° 38.662
17R E 438084 N 3360096
Centenarian Jane C. Blakely was born in 1836, and died in 1936. Her grave is located in Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMJNDQ
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 12/08/2013
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1836):
February 23 – The Alamo begins with an American settler army surrounded by the Mexican Army under Santa Anna.
February 25 – Samuel Colt receives a United States patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.
March 6 – The Battle of the Alamo ends; 182 Anglo-Saxon settler soldiers die in a struggle with approximately 5,000 Mexican soldiers.
June 15 – Arkansas is the 25th state admitted into the United States of America.
December 7 – United States presidential election, 1836: Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison.
Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1936):
January 31 – The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
February 17 The first superhero to wear a skin-tight costume and mask, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in U.S. newspapers.
March 1 – Construction of Hoover Dam is completed.
April 3 – Richard Hauptmann, convicted of the Lindbergh kidnapping, the kidnap and killing of the infant Charles Lindbergh III in 1932, is executed by electrocution in New Jersey.
May 30 – Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind is first published.
September 7 – The last known thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger), named Benjamin, dies in Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
November 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Alf Landon. Farmers support Roosevelt.
December 1 – Hitler makes it mandatory that boys 10 to 18 in Germany join the Hitler Youth (Hitler-Jugend) paramilitary organization.