Helen M. Lewis was born on April 15, 1888, and died on December 21, 1989 (
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1888):
* January 3 - First wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC.
* May 7 - George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera".
* August 31 - 'Jack the Ripper' claims his first victim Mary Ann Nicholls, a 42-year-old prostitute, who is found stabbed to death in Buck's Row, London.
* October 17 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
* October 30 - First ballpoint pen patented.
* November 3 - Jack the Ripper kills last victim.
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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