101 - Thuong Thi Trieu - Sunnylane Cemetery - Del City, OK
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Thuong Thi Trieu was born the same year that Ðong Khánh died aged 24 after reigning for three years as the ninth emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam.
Waymark Code: WM16VYW
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 10/13/2022
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Centenarian Thuong Thi Trieu is laid to rest a little southwest of the center of section 17 in Sunnylane Cemetery. Her name and dates of birth/death are the only inscription on the double upright headstone:
Trieu
Thuong Thi
1889-1990
Some historical events that occurred during Thuong's time on earth:
1889: President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1909: The city of Tel Aviv (known in its first year as Ahuzat Bayit) is founded by the Jewish community, on the outskirts of Jaffa.
1929: In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opens to the public. The first exhibition Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh and Seurat (November 7 – December 7) is seen by 47.000 visitors; the curator is Alfred H. Barr.
1949: Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow, gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma, and garners national media attention in the United States.
1969: A blowout on Union Oil's Platform A spills 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County in Southern California; on February 5 the oil spill closes Santa Barbara's harbor. The incident inspires Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the first Earth Day in 1970.
1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.
Location of Headstone: Sunnylane Cemetery
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