103 - Jeanette Jacobs Olschwanger - Jacksonville, FL
N 30° 21.923 W 081° 38.725
17R E 437979 N 3359450
Centenarian Jeanette Jacobs Olschwanger was born in 1911 and died in 2014. Her grave is located in Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMQBAZ
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 01/28/2016
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1911):
* January 26 – The United States and Canada announce the successful negotiation of their first reciprocal trade agreement.
* February 17 – The first "quasi-official" airmail flight occurs when Fred Wiseman carries three letters between Petaluma and Santa Rosa, California.
* February 18 – The first official air mail flight, second overall, takes place from Allahabad, India to Naini, India, when Henri Pequet carries 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km.
* May 30 – The very first Indianapolis 500 automobile race is held in the United States, won by Ray Harroun at an average speed of 74.59 miles per hour.
* August 21 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia; the theft is discovered the following day.
* December 14 – Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole.
Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (2014):
* February–January 2016 – The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa begins, infecting over 28,000 people and killing at least 11,000 people, the most severe both in terms of numbers of infections and casualties.
* March 31 – The United Nations International Court of Justice rules that Japan's Antarctic whaling program is not scientific but commercial and forbids grants of further permits.
* April 14 – An estimated 276 girls and women are abducted and held hostage from a school in Nigeria.
* July 17 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes in eastern Ukraine after being shot down by a missile. All 298 people on board are killed.
* August 8 – The United States military begins an air campaign in northern Iraq to stem the influx of ISIS militants.
* November 2 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the final part of its Fifth Assessment Report, warning that the world faces "severe, pervasive and irreversible" damage from global emissions of CO2.
* November 12 – The Rosetta spacecraft's Philae probe successfully lands on Comet 67P, the first time in history that a spacecraft has landed on such an object.
* December 17 – U.S. President Barack Obama announces the resumption of normal relations between the U.S. and Cuba.
Location of Headstone: Cemetery
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