100 - M. Elizabeth Buchanan - Memorial Park Cemetery - Oklahoma City, OK
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M. Elizabeth Buchanan was born the year of the San Francisco earthquake (estimated mag 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3,000, with 225,000–300,000 left homeless and $350 million in damages
Waymark Code: WMCX28
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 10/21/2011
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The final resting place of M. Elizabeth Buchanan is on the far east side of Memorial Park Cemetery, directly south of the mausoleum. Hers is a very dark brown stone, with flowers etched into the two bottom corners.
Text on headstone:
M. Elizabeth Buchanan
April 17, 1906
Sept. 12, 2006
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during her lifetime:
1906: SOS becomes an international distress signal.
1916: Food is rationed in Germany.
1926: The Irish minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appoints the Committee on Evil Literature.
1936: Peter and the Wolf, a Russian fairy tale of Sergei Prokofiev's composition, debuts at the Nezlobin Theater in Moscow, Soviet Union.
1946: Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila, the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
1956: At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together (their act started on July 25, 1946).
1966: Beaumont children disappearance: Three children disappear on their way to Glenelg, South Australia, never to be seen again.
1976: The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that coma patient Karen Ann Quinlan can be disconnected from her ventilator. She remains comatose and dies in 1985.
1986: United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger; the bodies of all seven astronauts are still inside.
1996: Gay rights – Romer v. Evans: The Supreme Court of the United States rules against a law that prevents any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of homosexuals.
2006: NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet
Location of Headstone: Memorial Park Cemetery, section 46
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