102 - Cora A. Olive - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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Cora A. Olive was born the same year that Thomas Edison demonstrated the incandescent lighting to the public for the first time (in Menlo Park, New Jersey).
Waymark Code: WMG9VD
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 02/03/2013
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The final resting place of Cora Olive is at the far northeast corner of Rose Hill Burial Park, just west of the Mausoleum and south of the main drive. Hers is a flat, light brown marker with a large rose etched into the left side.
Text on headstone:
Cora A. Olive
Nov. 18, 1879
Feb. 7, 1982
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Cora's time on earth:
1879: Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance is first performed in Paignton, Devon, England.
1889: The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated
1899: Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City.
1909: The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, now BP, is incorporated
1919: Romania annexes Transylvania.
1929: The first public demonstration of color TV is held, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. The first images are a bouquet of roses and an American flag. A mechanical system is used to transmit 50-line color television images between New York and Washington.
1939: Adolf Hitler orders the German military to start planning for Fall Weiss, the codename for the invasion of Poland.
1949: English astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term Big Bang during a BBC Third Programme radio broadcast.
1959: Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1969: The Boeing 747 makes its maiden flight.
1979: Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science.
1982: London-based Laker Airways collapses, leaving 6,000 stranded passengers and debts of $270 million.
(source: wikipedia)
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, Rose Lawn section
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