Mamie H. Tompkins' headstone only provides her birth year (1879) and her death year (1980), so she may have been either 100 or 101 at the time of her death; she is interred in the Greek Section of the cemetery (
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1879):
*May 30 – New York City's Gilmore's Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt, and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
* June 1 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial (Napoléon IV), great-nephew of Napoléon Bonaparte, Bonapartist pretender to the French throne, is killed in Africa while attached to the British Army during the Anglo–Zulu War.
* July 19 – Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up Holliday's New Mexico saloon.
* October 13 – First female students admitted to study for degrees of Oxford University in England, at the new Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville Hall and with the Society of Oxford Home-Students.
* October 22 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric light bulb (it lasts 13½ hours before burning out).
* November 4 — Thomas Edison applies for the patent for his invention, the incandescent light bulb U.S. Patent 223,898 will be granted on January 27, 1880.
* December 30 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance is first performed in Paignton, Devon, England.
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Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1980):
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* March 1 – The Voyager 1 probe confirms the existence of Janus, a moon of Saturn.
* March 21 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
* April 24 – Pennsylvania Lottery Scandal: the Pennsylvania Lottery is rigged by 6 men including the host of the live TV drawing, Nick Perry.
* May 21 – Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released.
* May 22 – Pac-Man (the best-selling arcade game of all time) is released.
* June 1 – The Cable News Network (CNN) is officially launched.
* October 31 – The Polish government recognizes Solidarity.
* November 10 – November 12 – Voyager program: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn, when it flies within 77,000 miles of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth.
* December 8 – John Lennon shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City.
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