101 - Vernon Hill - Trice Hill Cemetery - OKC, OK
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N 35° 31.371 W 097° 26.654
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Vernon Hill was born the same year that Mata Hari introduced her exotic dance act in Paris.
Waymark Code: WMJBTG
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 10/26/2013
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The final resting place of Vernon Hill is at the south side of Trice Hill Cemetery. He has a horizontal marker, with praying hands at the bottom and flowers on the right side.
Text on marker:
Daddy Vernon
Vernon Hill
1905 - 2006
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Vernon'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: Babe Ruth hits his first career home run off of Jack Warhop.
1925: The Great Sphinx of Giza is unearthed at the start of a complete excavation.
1935: Hachiko, the loyal dog who was remembered for his loyalty to his owner, even many years after his owners death, passes away on the very same spot he had waited for over nine years.
1945: Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and 120 members of his team surrender to U.S. forces (later going on to help to start the U.S. space program).
1955: The long-running program Gunsmoke debuts on the CBS-TV network.
1965: Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 civil rights activists in the third march from Selma, Alabama to the capitol in Montgomery.
1975: Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1985: Nelson Mandela rejects an offer of freedom from the South African government.
1995: Hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with penetrating some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems.
2006: Human Genome Project publishes the last chromosome sequence, in Nature.
Location of Headstone: Trice Hill Cemetery
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