102 - Mayme G. Hopkins - Chandler, OK
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Mayme G. Hopkins was born the same year that John Philip Sousa composed his magnum opus, the Stars and Stripes Forever, on Christmas Day
Waymark Code: WME04E
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 03/15/2012
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The final resting place of Mayme G. Hopkins is at the west side of Oak Park Cemetery in Chandler. Hers is an upright, grey monument set upon a horizontal base. Flowers are etched into the top two corners.
Her headstone reads:
Hopkins
Mayme G.
Aug. 25, 1896
Dec. 15, 1998
Emil D.
Aug. 9, 1889
Nov. 30, 1970
Some worldwide events and accomplishment that occurred during Mayme's lifetime:
1896: The shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War, starts at 9 in the morning and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling
1906: The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris
1916: The light switch is invented by William J. Newton and Morris Goldberg
1926: The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire
1936: The Santa Fe railroad in the United States inaugurates the all-Pullman Super Chief passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California
1946: The Central Intelligence Group is established (the CIA in 1947)
1956: Fidel Castro and Che Guevara depart from Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico, enroute to Santiago de Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with 82 men
1966: Charles De Gaulle asks U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson for negotiations about the state of NATO equipment in France
1976: Tiananmen Incident: Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing's Monument of the Martyrs to commemorate the death of Premier Zhou Enlai. Poems against the Gang of Four are also displayed, provoking a police crackdown
1986: United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger; the bodies of all seven astronauts are still inside
1998: The United States Senate passes Resolution 71, urging U.S. President Bill Clinton to "take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Location of Headstone: Oak Park Cemetery, section 17
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