100 - Ruby Ann Sealy Bigelow - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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Ruby Bigelow was born the same year that Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest was first shown at St. James' Theatre in London
Waymark Code: WMG1F9
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 01/01/2013
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The final resting place of Ruby Bigelow is at the far southeast corner of Rose Hill Burial Park, in section 1. Hers is a flat marker, next to an upright family marker with the name "Sealy".
Text on marker:
Ruby Ann Sealy Bigelow
Feb. 9, 1895
May 15, 1995
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Ruby's time on earth:
1895: Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise speech
1905: Albert Einstein works on the special theory of relativity as well as the theory of Brownian motion.
1915: William J. Simmons revives the Civil War era Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia.
1925: Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
1935: The great dust storm, made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads", hits eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma the hardest.
1945: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies suddenly at Warm Springs, Georgia; Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd President.
1955: Joe Brown and George Band are the first to attain the summit of Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, as part of a British team led by Charles Evans.
1965: African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X is assassinated.
1975: Lyme disease first recognised at Lyme, Connecticut, and the world population is just over 4 billion.
1985: The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then to screen all blood donations in the United States.
1995: Hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with penetrating some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems.
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 1
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