Flora C. Green was born on February 18, 1890, and died on December 3, 1994 (
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1890):
* January 2 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the White House.
* January 15 – The Sleeping Beauty with music by Tchaikovsky is premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia.
* January 25 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
* March 3 – The first American football game in Ohio State University history is played in Delaware, Ohio, against Ohio Wesleyan, with the Ohio State Buckeyes winning 20–14.
* July 3 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
* July 10 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
* July 14 – First recorded use of lime-green to describe a color.
* July 27 – Death of Vincent van Gogh: van Gogh apparently shoots himself, dying two days later.
* August 6 – At Auburn Prison in New York, William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed in the electric chair.
* October 11 – In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
* December 29 – Wounded Knee Massacre: At Wounded Knee, South Dakota, a Native American camp, the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment tries to disperse the non-violent "Ghost-Dance" which was promised to usher in a new era of power and freedom to Native Americans but is feared as a potential rallying tool for violent rebellion by some in the U.S. government. Shooting begins, and 153 Lakota Sioux and 25 troops are killed; about 150 flee the scene. This is the last tribe to be defeated and confined to a reservation as well as the beginning of the decline of both the American Indian Wars and the American frontier.
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Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1994):
* January 1 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established.
* January 6 – In Detroit, Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant, under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband.
* January 20 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend The Citadel, but soon drops out.
* January 21 – Lorena Bobbitt is found not guilty by reason of insanity on charges of mutilating her husband John.
* April 22 – Richard Nixon dies in New York City, nearly 20 years after he resigned in 1974. His funeral is the first funeral of a U.S. President since the death of Lyndon B. Johnson in 1973.
* May 10 - Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
* June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman are murdered outside the Simpson home in Los Angeles. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.
* July 12 – The Allied occupation of Berlin ends with a casing of the colors ceremony attended by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
* December 15 – The first version of web browser Netscape Navigator is released.
* December 19 - The Whitewater scandal investigation begins in Washington, D.C.
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