127 - Charles Tappin - Jacksonville, FL
N 30° 09.731 W 081° 38.937
17R E 437511 N 3336934
Centenarian Charles Tappin was born in 1812 and died in 1939. His grave is located in Mandarin Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMNWZH
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 05/15/2015
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Some Memorable Events during his Birth Year (1812):
* February 7 - Novelist Charles Dickens is born in Portsmouth, England.
* March 5 – Prussia and France sign the Treaty of Paris
* April 30 – Louisiana is admitted as the 18th U.S. state.
* June 18 – The War of 1812 between the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom begins.
* June 24 – Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman River and invades Russia.
Some Memorable Events during his Death Year (1939):
* January 1 – Hewlett-Packard is founded as an electronics company in Palo Alto, California.
* January 5 – Amelia Earhart is officially declared dead after her disappearance.
* March 3 - In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a fast protesting against British rule in India.
* April 14 - John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath is first published.
* July 23 – Mahatma Gandhi the spiritual leader from India writes a personal letter to Adolf Hitler addressing him "My friend", requesting to prevent any possible war.
Location of Headstone: Cemetery
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