105 - Belle Sykora - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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Belle Sykora was born the same year that Booker T. Washington delivered the Atlanta Compromise speech
Waymark Code: WMGAWE
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 02/07/2013
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The final resting place of Belle Sykora is at the southeast corner of Rose Hill Burial Park, near the center of section 5. Hers is a horizontal marker near a large family monument with the name "Sykora".
Text on headstone:
Belle Sykora
Aug 23, 1895 Nov 1 2000
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Belle's time on earth:
1895: W. E. B. Du Bois becomes the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
1905: The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.
1915: Beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
1925: The Great Sphinx of Giza is unearthed at the start of a complete excavation.
1935: Porky Pig makes his debut as the first major Looney Tunes character in I Haven't Got a Hat.
1945: Raymond L. Libby of American Cyanamid's research laboratories at Stamford, Connecticut, announces a method of orally administering the antibiotic penicillin
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: Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang appear on the cover of Time Magazine.
1975: Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army for offering reward money to informers.
1985: Samantha Smith, "Goodwill Ambassador" between the Soviet Union and the United States for writing a letter to Yuri Andropov about nuclear war, and eventually visiting the Soviet Union at Andropov's request, dies in the Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 plane crash. She was 13.
1995: Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in outer space.
2000: The U.S. Supreme Court rules the FDA lacks authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug, throwing out the Clinton Administration's main anti-smoking initiative
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 5
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