100 - Carrie V. Enox - Rose Hill Burial Park - Oklahoma City, OK
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Headstone for 100 year old Carrie V. Enox, located in Rose Hill Burial Park near the historic Brookhaven neighborhood of OKC
Waymark Code: WMC9QX
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 08/13/2011
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This headstone for Centenarian Carrie V. Enox is located on the far northeast corner of Rose Hill Burial Park, across the street from Classen Curve. Another centenarian headstone is nearby.
Text on headstone:
Carrie V. Enox
Mar. 4, 1895
Jan. 17, 1996
Here are some important world events that occured during Carrie V. Enox's lifetime:
1895: X-rays discovered by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen
1896: First Modern Olympic Games held in Athens, Greece
1897: Theodor Herzl launches Zionist movement
1898: The Spanish-American War began
1899: Aspirin patented by Felix Hoffman; Treaty of Paris signed;
1900: US and UK sign treaty for Panama Canal; Hamburger created;
1901: Oil discovered in TX; Horse racing is banned in SF; Pres. William McKinley shot in NY; First Nobel Peace Prize awarded
1902: China's Empress Tzu-hsi forbids the binding of women's feet; first brain operation by Dr. Harvey Cushing
1903: Wizard of Oz premieres NYC; Harry Houdini escapes police station; Wright bros. first flight; First Tour de France
1904: Ice Cream cone debuts; After 13 yrs. the 4,607 Trans-Siberian railray is completed; 1st NY subway opens
1905: Bloody Sunday incident in Russia
1906: Mt. Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples; Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Theodore Roosevelt
1907: Taxis begin running in NYC; World's 1st air force established (US Army); Sir Robert Baden Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
1908: 1st passenger flight in an airplane; "Take me out to the ballgame" hits charts
1909: Joan of Arc declared a Saint; First SOS used by American ship Arapahoe; Indy 500 racetrack opens
1910: Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troops; Halley's comet seen by naked eye; King George V ascends to the British throne
1911: First old-aged home established; Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre
1912: Edgar Burroughs publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"; Titanic sinks
1913: Jim Thorpe relinquishes his Olympic medals for being a pro; 1st prize put in a Cracker Jack box; 1st modern bra patented
1914: 1st successful blood transfusion; Panama Canal opens; Japan declares war on Germany in WWI
1915: Earthquake in Italy kills 29,800; Dinosaur Ntl. Mon. established
1916: Mary Pickford is first female film star to get one million dollar contract; Sat. Eve. Post features Norman Rockwell painting
1917: US pays Denmark $25 million for Virgin Islands; Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar; 10 mil. US men begin registering for draft in WWI; Germany bombs London; Raggedy Ann doll made
1918: WWI German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over France;First use of Iron Lung
1919: Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of States; Treaty of Versailles signed; President Woodrow Wilson paralyzed by a stroke
1920: NY Times editorial reports rockets can never fly; Post Office says children can not be sent by parcel post; Ray Chapman of Indians is hit in head by Yanks' Carl Mays' pitch and dies the next day
1921: First radio baseball broadcast
1922: Annie Oakley shoots 100 clay targets in a row for a record; Gandhi sentenced to 6 yr. imprisonment
1923: Howard Carter finds Pharoah Tutankhamen
1924: Johnny Weismuller swims 100 m record (57 2/5 secs); Native Americans are proclaimed U.S. citizens
1925: Benito Mussolini announces he is taking over Italy; John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
1926: George Burns marries Gracie Allen; First SAT exam administered
1927: Lindbergh begins NY flight in Spirit of St. Louis; Lou Gehrig names AL MVP
1928: Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes first guide dog for the blind; Velveeta cheese created by Kraft
1929: St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago: 7 gangsters killed; New York to San Francisco foot race begins
1930: 1st red and green traffic lights installed (Manhattan, NY); first nudist colony opens
1931: Empire State Building opens in NYC; Al Capone convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years
1932: Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for his kidnapped son; Radio City Music Hall opens: Earthquake ravages China, 70,000 killed
1933: Lone Ranger begins a 21 yr. run on ABC radio; Loch Ness Monster first sighted; Public Works Admin. becomes effective; Hitler becomes dictator of Germany
1934: Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison; Shirley Temple appears in 1st movie "Stand Up and Cheer."
1935: Hoover Dam is dedicated; Parker Bros. launches game Monopoly
1936: 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany; Gone with the Wind is published; Spanish Civil War begins
1937: Mae West performs skit that gets her banned from NBC radio; Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean
1938: 1st Xerox copying machine demonstration; Orson Welles panics a nation with his broadcast of "War of the Worlds."
1939: Food stamps first issued; WWII starts
1940: Britain introduces food rationing; Winston Churchill becomes PM of Britain
1941: Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; 1st gas murder experiments conducted at Auschwitz; Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
1942: "Archie" comic strip debuts; FDR orders interment and detention of all west coast Japanese Americans; Battle of Midway begins
1943: First missing persons telecast (NYC); Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD
1944: Congress establishes rank of General of Army (5-star General); Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police
1945: US bombs Hiroshima; 1st food drop by RAF above Nazi-occupied Holland (Operation Manna)
1946: Musical "Annie get your gun" starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC; Abdullah Hussein becomes King of Jordan
1947: The Black Dahlia is last seen alive; tennis shoe is introduced
1948: Stan Musial is picked NL MVP; Communist form N. China People's Republic
1949: 1st daytime Soap Opera on TV (These Are My Children); S. Africa begins implementing Apartheid: no mixed marriages
1950: Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance; Leroy Deans awarded first Order Purple Heart in Korea
1951: US begins nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site
1952: Mr. Potato Head introduced; 1st non-stop transpacific flight by a jet
1953: Dr. Jonas Salk announces he found a vaccine to prevent Polio; US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
1954: Iwo Jima Memorial dedicated in Arlington;1st Burger King opens
1955: Israel acquired 4 of 7 Dead Sea Scrolls; "Ballad of Davy Crockett" becomes #1 record in U.s.
1956: Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52); US Motto "In God We Trust" authorized; Bobby Fischer played his famous game later referred to as "The Game of the Century"
1957: Beatle John Lennon first meets Paul McCartney
1958: 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban; The Lego Co. patented their design of Lego bricks
1959: Barbie doll goes on sale; OK ends Prohibition after 51 years
1960: 4 students stage 1st Civil Rights sit-in (NC); 1st oral contraceptive used
1961: Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem; "Mr. Ed" premieres
1962: Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro; Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending Crisis
1963: artificial heart implanted in a human for the first time
1964: The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan show
1965: Blacks riot in Watts, Los Angeles for six days
1966: Supreme Court decides Miranda vs. Arizona
1967: Thurgood Marshall: first black U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1968: Martin Luther King Jr. is slain in Memphis
1969: Richard Nixon becomes 37th President of the United States
1970: Kent State University students shot by National Guard
1971: U.S. voting age is lowered to age 18
1972: Beginning of the Watergate scandal
1973: Vietnam War ends
1974: Patricia Hearst is kidnapped by S.L.A.
1975: President Ford escapes second assassination attempt in 17 days
1976: Our nation celebrates its Bicentennial
1977: First woman Episcopal priest ordained
1978: John Paul I dies unexpectedly after 34 days in office
1979: Three-mile island nuclear power plant accident
1980: Shah of Iran dies and Americans are taken hostage
1981: Sandra Day O'Connor, 51, first woman on U.S. Supreme Court
1982: John Hinkley found not guilty by reason of insanity in shooting President Ronald Reagan
1983: U.S. and allies invade Grenada
1984: Toxic gas leak in India kills 2,000 and injures 150,000
1985: PLO terrorists hijack Achille Lauro; Italian govmt. toppled over the hijacking crisis
1986: Space shuttle Challenger explodes after launching, killing all 7
1987: Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction
1988: Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship
1989: "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain
1990: Lech Walesa wins presidential election in Poland
1991: U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
1992: McDonalds opens its first fast-food restaurant in China
1993: Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)
1994: (Sept. 14) All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season
1995: NYC reinstates the death penalty
1996: Osama bin Laden issues a message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places."
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park
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