106 - Ophelia Goodridge-Dixon - Trice Hill Cemetery - OKC, OK
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Ophelia Dixon was born the same year that Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer were banned from the Brooklyn Public Library for setting a "bad example."
Waymark Code: WMHZVJ
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/02/2013
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The final resting place of Ophelia Goodridge-Dixon is at the far west side of Trice Hill Cemetery. Ophelia passed away only 13 days before her 107th birthday.
Text on marker:
Precious Memories
Ophelia
Goodridge - Dixon
May 25, 1905 - May 12, 2012
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Ophelia's time on earth:
1905: Albert Einstein submits his paper Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content? in which he develops an argument for the famous equation E = mc2.
1915: Jess Willard, the latest "Great White Hope", defeats Jack Johnson with a 26th round knockout in sweltering heat at Havana, Cuba. Willard becomes very popular among white Americans for "bringing back the championship to the white race".
1925: F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
1935: Dust Bowl: The great dust storm, made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads", hits eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma the hardest.
1945: American troops seize the bridge over the Rhine at Remagen, Germany and begin to cross
1955: First edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published, in London.
1965: In Montgomery, Alabama, 1,600 civil rights marchers demonstrate at the Courthouse.
1975: Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title
1985: South Africa ends its ban on interracial marriages.
1995: Hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with penetrating some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems.
2005: Rosa Parks dies; Was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement."
2012: After 244 years since its first publication, the Encyclopædia Britannica discontinues its print edition
Location of Headstone: Trice Hill Cemetery
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