103 - Charles D. Clark - Jacksonville, FL
N 30° 17.807 W 081° 37.284
17R E 440245 N 3351835
Centenarian Charles D. Clark was born in 1883 and died in 1986. His grave is located in Greenlawn Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMNWPW
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 05/13/2015
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Some Memorable Events during his Birth Year (1883):
* January 4 – Life magazine is founded in Los Angeles.
* May 23 – Robert Louis Stevenson's children's pirate adventure novel Treasure Island is first published in book format, in London.
* May 24 – Brooklyn Bridge is opened to traffic after 13 years of construction.
* July 4 – The world's first rodeo is held in Pecos, Texas.
* November 3 – American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the Po-8" makes his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a handkerchief with a laundry mark that eventually leads to his capture.
Some Memorable Events during his Death Year (1986):
* January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus.
* February 19 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station.
* April 26 – Chernobyl disaster: A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union "killed at least 4056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property".
* September 8 – The Oprah Winfrey Show premieres in syndication.
Location of Headstone: Cemetery
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