Lucille Savill Grunthal was born on December 8, 1881, and died on April 7, 1990 (
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1881):
* January 25 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
* February 19 – Kansas becomes the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
* March 23 – First Boer War comes to an end.
* May 21 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
* July 2 – Assassination of James A. Garfield: United States President James A. Garfield is shot by lawyer Charles J. Guiteau in Washington, D.C. The wound becomes infected; killing Garfield on September 19.
* July 14 – Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
* September 19 – U.S. President James A. Garfield dies eleven weeks after being shot. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes the 21st President of the United States.
* October 26 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral occurs in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA.
* December 28 – Virgil Earp is ambushed in Tombstone and loses the use of his left arm.
Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1990):
* January 7 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
* January 29 - the trial of Joseph Hazelwood, former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's second worst oil spill to date.
* January 31 - The first McDonald's in Moscow, Russia opens.
* February 11 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa, after 27 years behind bars.
* February 24 – The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first democratic election in the history of the Soviet Union.
* February 27 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on 5 criminal counts.
*March 3 – The International Trans-Antarctica Expedition, a group of six explorer for six nations, completes the first dog sled crossing of Antarctica.
*March 15 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
* May 15 – Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million.
* May 29 - Boris Yeltsin is elected as the first ever elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
* June 24 – Kathleen Young and Irene Templeton are ordained as priests in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, becoming the first female Anglican priests in the United Kingdom.
* August 2 – Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
* September 11 – Gulf War: President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait.
* November 12 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
* December 9 - Lech Walesa wins the 2nd round of Poland's first presidential election.
* December 25 – Tim Berners-Lee creates the first webpage on the first web server.
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