103 - Jennie M. Rainey - Jacksonville, FL
N 30° 09.782 W 081° 38.951
17R E 437489 N 3337028
Centenarian Jennie M. Rainey was born in 1888 and died in 1991. Her grave is located in Mandarin Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMNWZJ
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 05/15/2015
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1888):
* January 3 - First wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC.
* May 7 - George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera".
* August 31 - 'Jack the Ripper' claims his first victim Mary Ann Nicholls, a 42-year-old prostitute, who is found stabbed to death in Buck's Row, London.
* October 17 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
* October 30 - First ballpoint pen patented.
* November 3 - Jack the Ripper kills last victim.
Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1991):
* January 16 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins with air strikes against Iraq.
* February 5 – A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
* June 17 - Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
* June 17 - U.S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found.
* July 22 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin, apartment. Police soon find out that he is involved in 6 more murders.
* September 19 – Ötzi the Iceman is found in the Alps.
* December 26 – The Cold War ends after 44–46 years when the Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. All Soviet institutions eventually cease operation on December 31.
Location of Headstone: Cemetery
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