105 - Shamouni Joseph - Jacksonville, FL
N 30° 21.938 W 081° 38.806
17R E 437850 N 3359478
Centenarian Shamouni Joseph was born in 1838 and died in 1943. Her grave is located in Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMQ6DR
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 12/29/2015
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1838):
* January 21 – The first known report about the lowest temperature on Earth was made, indicating -60 °C (-76 °F) in Yakutsk.
* May 26 – The people of the Cherokee Nation are forcibly relocated during the Trail of Tears in the United States.
* June 28 – Coronation of Queen Victoria takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
* October 27 – Lilburn Boggs, Governor of Missouri, by Missouri Executive Order 44 declares Mormons to be enemies of the state and encourages the extermination or exile of the religious minority, forcing nearly 10,000 Mormons out of the state.
* November 5 – Dissolution of the Federal Republic of Central America: Honduras and Costa Rica follow the example of Nicaragua and secede from the federation.
* December 16 – The Boers win a decisive victory over the Zulus in the Battle of Blood River.
Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1943):
* January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured.
* January 15 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
* January 22 - The Holocaust: Over 4,000 Jews are detained in Nazi-occupied Marseille as part of "Action Tiger" before being transported to extermination camps in Poland.
* January 27 – WWII: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany: Wilhelmshaven is the target.
* February 7 – WWII: In the United States, it is announced that shoe rationing will go into effect in 2 days.
* March–December – History of computing hardware: Construction of British prototype Mark I Colossus computer, the world's first totally electronic programmable computing device, to assist in cryptanalysis of German signals at Bletchley Park.
* April 27 – The U.S. Federal Writers' Project ceases operation.
* June (late) – The Holocaust: The last trainload of Jewish prisoners is moved from Belzec extermination camp in Occupied Poland (for gassing at Sobibór) and for the remainder of the year the Nazis make efforts to obliterate the site.
* July 1 – United States Women's Army Corps (WAC) converted to full status.
* September 8 – WWII: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies.
* November 15 – Porajmos: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies and "part-Gypsies" be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in Nazi concentration camps."
* November 19 – The Holocaust: Inmates of Janowska concentration camp near Lwów (at this time in German-occupied Poland), stage a failed uprising, after which the SS liquidates the camp, resulting in at least 6,000 deaths.
* December 4 - The Great Depression officially ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to WWII-related employment, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration.
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