Ella Marie Braddock Vanzant was born on August 19, 1887, in Nassau County, Florida, and died on July 28, 1989, in the city of Hilliard in Nassau County, Florida (
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1887):
* January 20 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
* January 28 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, USA, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
* January 28 – Construction of the foundations of the Eiffel Tower starts in Paris, France.
* February 2 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.
* March 3 – Anne Sullivan begins teaching Helen Keller.
* May 9 – Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.
* July 6 – King Kalakaua of Hawai'i is forced by anti-monarchists to sign the 'Bayonet Constitution', stripping the Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority as well as disfranchising most native Hawaiians, all Asians and the poor.
* November 8 – Emile Berliner is granted a patent for his Gramophone.
* December 25 – Glenfiddich single malt Scotch whisky is first produced.
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Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1989):
* January 4 - US Vice President George Bush is first since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself President.
* January 17 - Victoria Murden and Shirley Metz are first women to reach South Pole overland (on skis).
* January 20 - George H.W. Bush succeeds Ronald Reagan as the 41st President of the United States of America.
* January 24 - Serial killer (100 women) Theodore Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair.
* February 14 - The first of 24 Global Positioning System satellites is placed into orbit.
* March 24 - In Alaska's Prince William Sound, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spills 240,000 barrels (11.3 million gallons) of oil after running aground.
* April 14 - 1,100,000,000th Chinese born.
* May 11 - Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds.
* June 4 - The Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing on the army's approach to the square, and the final stand-off in the square is covered live on television.
* September 21 - Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in South Carolina, causing US$7 billion in damage.
* November 9 - East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany for the first time in decades. Overnight, thousands flood over the border.
* December 21 - US Vice-President Dan Quayle sends out 30,000 Christmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon.
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