100 - Jose Loera Lopez - Klamath Falls, OR
N 42° 11.317 W 121° 39.661
10T E 610564 N 4671585
One of a small number of centenarians interred at Mt. Calvary Catholic Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMZJ60
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 11/17/2018
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Jose Loera Lopez' headstone contains his years of life etched on his headstone, one of only a few I've come across in my travels to many cemeteries on the West Coast. I couldn't find any other information on Lopez.
The following significant events occurred in the year of Jose's birth (1903):
Jan 12 - Harry Houdini performs at Rembrandt theater, Amsterdam
Jan 19 - New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced
Feb 15 - 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
Mar 14 - 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida
Mar 23 - The Wright brothers 1st file a patent for a flying machine, which is granted 3 years later
May 23 - 1st automobile trip across US leaves San Francisco for New York, (arrives July 26)
Jun 16 - Ford Motors under Henry Ford incorporates
Jul 26 - 1st automobile trip across the United States (San Francisco to New York) completed by Horatio Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker
Sep 21 - First cowboy film "Kit Carson" premieres in US
Oct 1 - First Baseball World Series game ever played; Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Americans 7-3 at Huntington Avenue; Jimmy Sebring hits first home run; Deacon Phillippe is winning pitcher and Cy Young the loser
Nov 22 - Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt are engaged
Dec 1 - "The Great Train Robbery", the 1st Western film, released
Dec 10 - Nobel Prize for physics awarded to Pierre and Marie Curie
Dec 17 - The Wright Brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Location of Headstone: Mt. Calvary Catholic Cemetery
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