103 - Lula Rachel Johnson - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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N 35° 31.916 W 097° 32.449
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Lula Rachel Johnson was born the same year that in NYC 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
Waymark Code: WMH4G9
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 05/21/2013
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The final resting place of Lula Rachel Johnson is at the west side of Rose Hill Burial Park, at the far north side of the section. Hers is a horizontal marker, near an upright family marker with the name "Johnson."
Text on marker:
Lula Rachel Johnson
August 20, 1894
December 8, 1997
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Lula's time on earth:
1894: Russian Tsar Alexander III is succeeded by his son Nicholas II.
1904: British expedition to Tibet – Battle of Guru: British troops under Colonel Francis Younghusband defeat ill-equipped Tibetan troops.
1914: Woodrow Wilson signs a Mother's Day proclamation.
1924: The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France
1934: Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
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: The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
1964: Hello, Dolly! opens in New York City's St. James Theatre.
1974: After a record 84 days in orbit, the crew of Skylab 4 returns to Earth.
1984: Barefoot South African runner Zola Budd, controversially granted British citizenship earlier in the year, collides with Mary Decker of the U.S. in the Olympic 3000 meters final, neither finishing as medallists
1997: The so-called "Big Three" banks in Switzerland announced the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 14
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