100 - George W.M. Nokes - Chapel Hill Cemetery - OKC, OK
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George Nokes was born the same year that The Vatican introduced a compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon ordination.
Waymark Code: WMJP9K
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 12/12/2013
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The final resting place of George Nokes is at the west side of Chapel Hill Cemetery, near the east side of the section.
Text on marker:
George W. M. Nokes
June 20, 1910
March 19, 2011
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during George's time on earth:
1910: First publication of infrared photographs, by Professor Robert Williams Wood in the Royal Photographic Society's journal.
1920: The United States Congress refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
1930: The Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.
1940: President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress, asks for an extraordinary credit of approximately $900 million to finance construction of at least 50,000 airplanes per year.
1950: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from the Brink's armored car company headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
1960: The Fantasticks, the world's longest-running musical, opens at New York City's Sullivan Street Playhouse where it will play for 42 years.
1970: The Expo '70 World's Fair opens in Suita, Osaka, Japan.
1980: The first 24 hour news channel Cable News Network (CNN) is launched.
1990: Lech Walesa and Stanislaw Tyminski win the first round of the first Polish presidential election.
2000: A rare conjunction of 7 celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury–Saturn) occurs during the New Moon
2011: An estimated two billion people watch the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.
Location of Headstone: Chapel Hill Cemetery
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