102 - Sallie Fizer - Trice Hill Cemetery - OKC, OK
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Sallie Fizer was born the same year that Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim the English Channel.
Waymark Code: WMJ1YT
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/10/2013
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The final resting place of Sallie Fizer is at the south end of Trice Hill Cemetery, just west of the main drive. Hers is an upright marker with the following text:
Mother
Sallie Fizer
June 14, 1875
May 19, 1978
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Sallie's time on earth:
1875: In Washington, D.C., Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle of the Little Bighorn is fought in Montana the next year).
1885: Grover Cleveland succeeds Chester A. Arthur as President of the United States.
1895: Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts.
1905: The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.
1915: The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1925: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
1935: In Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler orders reinstatement of the air force, the Luftwaffe, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles (1919).
1945: About 30,000 United States Marines land on Iwo Jima.
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. Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to the song.
1965: Gemini 3: NASA launches the United States' first 2-person crew (Gus Grissom, John Young) into Earth orbit.
1978: The 50th Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California with Annie Hall winning Best Picture.
Location of Headstone: Trice Hill Cemetery
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