Alice E. Varnes (1879-1979) shares her headstone with her husband Preston A. Varnes (1866-1948). The following information is from the United States Social Security Death Index (
visit link) : Age 100, Given Name Alice, Surname Varnes, Birth Date 02 Jan 1879, State Florida, Last Place of Residence Duval Florida, Previous Residence Postal Code 32205, Event Date (Death) Jun 1979.
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 (1979):
* February 1 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
* February 18 – The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes.
* March 25 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center, to be prepared for its first launch.
* May 4 – Counting in the previous day's British general election shows that the Conservatives have won and Margaret Thatcher becomes the country's first female prime minister, ending the rule of James Callaghan's Labour government.
* June 18 – Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna.
* September 7 – The first cable sports channel, ESPN, known as the Entertainment Sports Programming Network, is launched.
* November 4 – Iran hostage crisis begins: 3,000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former Shah of Iran back to stand trial.
* December 6 – The world premiere for Star Trek: The Motion Picture is held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
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