105 - Bedie Minniefield - Rochelle, FL
N 29° 33.562 W 082° 15.427
17R E 378216 N 3270620
Centenarian Bedie Minniefield was born on September 1, 1877, and died on May 16, 1983. Her grave is located in the Oak Ridge Cemetery in community of Rochelle, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMKDNQ
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 03/26/2014
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1877):
* January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act 1876, introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
* January 8 – American Indian Wars – Battle of Wolf Mountain: Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry in Montana.
* March 2 – In the Compromise of 1877, the U.S. presidential election, 1876 is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner, even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
* April 24 – Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878: the Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
* May 5 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
* May 6 – Realizing that his people are weakened by cold and hunger, Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
* June 15 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
* June 21 – The Molly Maguires are hanged at Carbon County Prison in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania.
* November 21 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound, considered Edison's first great invention. Edison demonstrates the device for the first time on November 29.
Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1983):
* January 3 – Kilauea begins slowly erupting on the Big Island of Hawaii and is still flowing as of 2014.
* February 28 – The final episode of M*A*S*H is aired and the record of most watched episode is broken.
* March 25 – Motown celebrates its 25th anniversary with the television special Motown 25, during which Michael Jackson performs "Billie Jean" and introduces to the world the moonwalk.
* June 18 – Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-7 mission.
* August 30 – Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-8 mission.
* September 16 – Ronald Reagan announces that the Global Positioning System (GPS) will be made available for civilian use.
Location of Headstone: Cemetery
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