106 - Henry Fischer - Jacksonville, FL
N 30° 22.115 W 081° 38.639
17R E 438119 N 3359804
Centenarian Henry Fischer was born in 1891 and died in 1997. His grave is located in Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
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Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 02/25/2016
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Henry Fischer (
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Some Memorable Events during his Birth Year (1891):
* January 29 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
* March 15 – Jesse W. Reno patents the first escalator at Coney Beach.
* June 25 – Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine for the first time, in the issue dated July.
* October 1 – In California, Stanford University opens its doors.
Some Memorable Events during his Death Year (1997):
* January 20 – U.S. President Bill Clinton is inaugurated for his second term.
* January 22 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State, after confirmation by the United States Senate.
* February 22 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned, and was born in July 1996.
* February 27 – Divorce becomes legal in the Republic of Ireland.
* March 4 – U.S. President Bill Clinton bans federal funding for any research on human cloning.
* March 26 - In San Diego, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.
* July 1 – The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
* August 31 – Death of Diana, Princess of Wales: Diana, Princess of Wales is taken to a hospital after a car accident shortly after midnight, in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 3:00 am.
* December 29 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the chickens within its territory (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
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