100 - Ada B. Hollie - Summit View Cemetery - Guthrie, OK
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Ada B. Hollie was born the same year that Rudyard Kipling published the story Mowgli Leaves the Jungle Forever in The Cosmopolitan illustrated magazine
Waymark Code: WMGZFG
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 04/28/2013
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The final resting place of Ada B. Hollie is at the north side of Summit View Cemetery, northwest of the office building. Hers is a horizontal marker with the following text:
Wife
Ada B. Hollie
1895 - 1995
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Ada's time on earth:
1895: Grace Chisholm Young becomes the first woman awarded a doctorate at a German university.
1905: The Trans-Siberian Railway officially opens after its completion on July 21, 1904.
1915: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA, is founded in the United States.
1925: Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.
1935: Porky Pig makes his debut as the first major Looney Tunes character in I Haven't Got a Hat.
1945: The "Clash of Titans": George Mikan and Bob Kurland duel at Madison Square Garden as Oklahoma State University defeats DePaul 52–44 in basketball.
1955: Evan Hunter's movie adaptation of the novel Blackboard Jungle premieres in the United States, featuring the famous single, "Rock Around the Clock", by Bill Haley and His Comets.
1965: Martin Luther King, Jr. and 25,000 civil rights activists successfully end the 4-day march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery.
1975: In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly 2 months early in the United States.
1985: TWA Flight 847, carrying 153 passengers from Athens to Rome, is hijacked by a Hezbollah fringe group. One passenger, U.S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem, is killed.
1995: U.S. President Bill Clinton indefinitely closes part of the street in front of the White House, Pennsylvania Avenue, to vehicular traffic in response to the Oklahoma City bombing.
Location of Headstone: Summit View Cemetery
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