100 - Hildabelle C. Bence - Jacksonville, FL
N 30° 22.060 W 081° 38.611
17R E 438163 N 3359702
Centenarian Hildabelle C. Bence was born in 1893 and died in 1993. Her grave is located in Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMQF38
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 02/19/2016
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Hildabelle C. Bence was born on March 13, 1893, and died on April 16, 1993.
Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1893):
* January 17 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety in Hawaii with the intervention of the United States Marine Corps overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani.
* February 1 – Thomas Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
* May 10 – The United States Supreme Court legally declares the tomato to be a vegetable.
* June 7 – Gandhi commits his first act of civil disobedience in India.
* June 20 – Lizzie Borden acquitted of murdering her parents.
* July 25 – Completion of the Corinth Canal in Greece.
* November 7 – Colorado women are granted the right to vote.
Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1993):
* January 1 - Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: The Czech Republic and Slovakia separate in the so-called Velvet Divorce.
* January 20 – Bill Clinton succeeds George H. W. Bush as the 42nd President of the United States.
* April 22 – In Washington, D.C., the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated.
* June 24 - A Unabomber bomb injures computer scientist David Gelernter at Yale University.
* July 12 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off Hokkaido, Japan launches a devastating tsunami that kills 202 on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido.
Location of Headstone: Cemetery
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