100 - Gladys L. Ayers - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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Gladys L. Ayers was born the same year that The Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to include the right of women to stand as candidates when it adopts universal suffrage
Waymark Code: WMEKCG
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 06/08/2012
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The final resting place of Gladys L. Ayers is at the northeast corner of Rose Hill Burial Park, near the center of the "Love" section. Hers is an upright monument with a vase on both sides. She shares this marker with her spouse, Bennie B.
Text on marker:
Ayers
Gladys L.
Sept. 15, 1906
Oct. 12, 2006
Bennie B.
Jan. 9, 1904
July 19, 1985
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Glady's time on earth:
1906: The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloon United States, lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire, England
1916: Tristan Tzara "founds" the art movement Dadaism
1926: An assassination attempt against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini fails
1936: Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted of kidnapping and killing Charles Lindbergh III, is executed in New Jersey
1946: At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team
1956: Elvis Presley enters the United States music charts for the first time, with Heartbreak Hotel
1966: United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended
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: Mike Tyson wins his first world boxing title by defeating Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas
1996: The 68th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California with Braveheart winning Best Picture
2006: Human Genome Project publishes the last chromosome sequence, in Nature
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, "Love" section
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