104 - Erwin G. Rusch - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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Erwin G. Rusch was born the same year that The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroyed over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
Waymark Code: WMH2FR
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 05/11/2013
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The final resting place of Erwin G. Rusch is at the northeast side of Rose Hill Burial Park, just west of the Mausoleum.
Text on marker:
Rusch
Erwin G.
1904 - 2008
In Loving Memory
Genevieve H.
1907 - 1963
In Loving Memory
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Erwin's time on earth:
1904: 80,000 demonstrators gather in Hyde Park, London, to protest against the importation of Chinese labourers to South Africa by the British government.
1914: Belgian surgeon Albert Hustin makes the first successful non-direct blood transfusion, using anticoagulants.
1924: The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps).
1934: Albert Einstein visits the White House.
1944: More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
1954: RCA manufactures the first color TV set (12-inch screen; price: $1,000)
1964: The Beatles vault to the #1 spot on the U.S. singles charts for the first time, with "I Want to Hold Your Hand", forever changing the way popular music sounds to Americans, also starting the British Invasion in America.
1974: As "Tania", Patty Hearst is photographed wielding an M1 carbine while robbing the Sunset District branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco
1984: Six inmates, including James and Linwood Briley, escape from a death row facility at Mecklenburg Correctional Center, the only occasion this has ever happened in the United States.
1994: Record cold temperatures hit the eastern United States. The coldest temperature ever measured in Indiana state history, -36°F (-38°C), is recorded in New Whiteland, Indiana.
2008: The first European Space Agency Automated Transfer Vehicle, a cargo spacecraft for the International Space Station, launches from Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, Rose Lawn section
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