100 - Ora Pool - Chandler, OK
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N 35° 42.000 W 096° 54.279
14S E 689575 N 3952698
Ora Pool was born the same year that Asteroid 323 Brucia became the first asteroid discovered using photography
Waymark Code: WME04D
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 03/15/2012
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The final resting place of Ora Pool is at the west side of Oak Park Cemetery in Chandler. Hers is a reddish brown single marker, with a white inset box for her name and years, and flowers etched into the top two corners. She is laid to rest next to Logan Pool.
Her headstone reads:
Ora Pool
Nov. 20, 1891
Oct. 3, 1992
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Ora's lifetime:
1891: The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers was organized
1901: First public telephones at railway stations in Paris
1911: The theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered in the Louvre
1921: The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia is founded
1931: The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States National anthem
1941: Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak begins as the New York Yankee center fielder goes one for four against Chicago White Sox Pitcher Eddie Smith
1951: The Tibetan government signs the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People's Republic of China
1961: The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
1971: The government of Turkey declares a state of siege in 11 provinces, Ankara included, due to violent demonstrations
1981: Bobby Sands, a Provisional Irish Republican Army member, begins a hunger strike for political status in Long Kesh prison (he dies May 5, the first of 10 men)
1992: A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison
Location of Headstone: Oak Park Cemetery, section 17
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