103 - Margaret Berry Blair - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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Margaret Blair was born the same year that Cy Young of the Boston Americans threw the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
Waymark Code: WMGMJZ
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 03/20/2013
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The final resting place of Margaret Blair is at the north side of Rose Hill Burial Park, at the north end of the section. Hers is an upright marker shared with her spouse.
Text on marker:
Blair
Margaret Berry
1904 - 2007
Herbert Henley
1903 - 1999
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Margaret's time on earth:
1904: U.S. Army engineers begin work on The Panama Canal.
1914: Canadian Margaret C. MacDonald is appointed Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Nursing service band and becomes the first woman in the British Empire to reach the rank of major.
1924: Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
1934: Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker kill 2 young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
1944: The BBC transmits a coded message (the first line of the poem "Chanson d'automne" by Paul Verlaine) to the French Resistance, warning that the invasion of Europe is imminent.
1954: U.S. officials announce that a hydrogen bomb test (Castle Bravo) has been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1964: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marry (for the first time) in Montreal.
1974: The Rumble in the Jungle takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire, where Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in 8 rounds to regain the Heavyweight title, which had been stripped from him 7 years earlier.
1984: Virgin Atlantic Airways makes its inaugural flight.
1994: Lorena Bobbitt is found not guilty by reason of insanity on charges of mutilating her husband John.
2007: Apple Inc's CEO and founder, Steve Jobs announces the first generation iPhone, the iPhone 2G (it goes on sale in the United States on June 29).
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, Devotion section
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