103 - Millie Mayes - Obetz, OH
N 39° 52.482 W 082° 56.834
17S E 333475 N 4415664
Centenarian Millie Mayes was born on February 3, 1886, and died on April 12, 1989. Her grave is located in the Obetz Cemetery (formerly Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery) in Obetz, Ohio, USA.
Waymark Code: WMAGZF
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 01/15/2011
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1886):
January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent Motorwagen (built in 1885).
May 8: Pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would be named Coca-Cola.
June 2 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.
June 10 – The Mount Tarawera volcano erupts in New Zealand, resulting in the deaths of over 150 people and the destruction of the famous Pink and White Terraces.
July 9 – Charles Hall files a patent for his process of turning aluminium oxide into molten aluminium.
August 20 – A massive hurricane demolishes the town of Indianola, Texas.
August 31 – An earthquake of between 7.3 and 7.6 on the Richter Scale hits Charlestown, South Carolina, leaving 40,000 homeless.
September 4 – Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
September 21 – William Stanley, Jr. patents the first practical alternating current transformer device, the induction coil.
October 28 – In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
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.
- October 17 - In Loma Prieta, California, an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale occurs. Three events about 1.5 and 3.0 seconds apart. Sixty-two people killed, 3,757 injured and damage estimated at US$5.6 billion.
- 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.