Mary Hampton Fullerton was born on December 21, 1903, and died on April 28, 2006 (
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1903):
* January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India.
* February 15 – Morris and Rose Michtom introduce the first teddy bear in the United States.
* February 23 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
* March 14 – The Hay–Herrán Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate later rejects the treaty.
* September 29 – Prussia becomes the first locality to require mandatory driver's licenses for operators of motor vehicles.
* October 1 – First modern World Series: The Boston Red Sox defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates.
* December 17 – Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the first documented, successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight.
* December 30 – Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago kills 600.
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Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (2006):
* January 15 – NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet.
* February 3 – An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people, sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast.
* February 17 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
* March 9 – NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.
* March 10 – NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit.
May – Human Genome Project publishes the last chromosome sequence, in Nature.
* July 18 – The SS Nomadic, the last floating link to Titanic, returns home to a large reception in Belfast.
* August 24 – The International Astronomical Union defines 'planet' at its 26th General Assembly, demoting Pluto to the status of 'dwarf planet' more than 70 years after its discovery.
* October 9 – North Korea claims to have conducted its first-ever nuclear test
* November 2 – No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock becomes the most expensive painting after it was sold privately at $140 million.
* November 5 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging by the Iraqi Special Tribunal.
* December 13 – The Chinese River Dolphin or Baiji becomes extinct.
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Additional information about Mary Hampton Fullerton is available at the Hampton Health, Ltd. website (
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