100 - Dale R. Lankford - Memorial Park Cemetery - Oklahoma City, OK
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Dale R. Lankford was born the same year as the first college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California..
Waymark Code: WMCWP6
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 10/19/2011
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The final resting place of Dale R. Lankford is on the very far east side of Memorial Park Cemetery, southeast of the mausoleum. Entrance into Memorial Park is only on the west side, off of Kelley Ave.
Text on headstone:
Dale R. Lankford
1902 - 2002
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Dale's lifetime:
1902: Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rides in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.
1912: The Girl Scouts of the USA are founded.
1922: Teapot Dome scandal: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
1932: Babe Ruth makes his famous called shot in the fifth inning of game 3 of the 1932 World Series.
1942: Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States
1952: The first successful surgical separation of Siamese twins is conducted in Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
1962: Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
1972: Alex Comfort's bestselling manual The Joy of Sex is published.
1982: Cal Ripken, Jr. plays the first of what eventually becomes his record-breaking streak of 2,632 consecutive Major League Baseball games.
1992: Singer Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.
2002: In Houston, Texas, Andrea Yates is found guilty of drowning her 5 children on June 20, 2001. She is later sentenced to life in prison.
Location of Headstone: Memorial Park Cemetery, section 46
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