104 - Garnet E. Flagg - Buena Vista Cemetery - Oklahoma
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Garnet E. Flagg was born the same year that the United States captured Guam, making it the first U.S. overseas territory
Waymark Code: WMG4EY
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 01/11/2013
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The final resting place of Garnet E. Flagg is at the very rural Buena Vista Cemetery, which is a few miles south of I-40 and southwest of El Reno. Hers is a horizontal stone with the following text:
Garnet E. Flagg
May 27, 1898
Nov. 3, 2002
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Garnet's time on earth:
1898: Secondo Pia takes the first photographs of the Shroud of Turin and discovers that the image on Shroud itself appears to be a photographic negative.
1908: Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile.
1918: New voting laws in Sweden makes votes no longer dependent on taxable assets, each adult having one vote.
1928: The moat at the Tower of London, previously drained in 1843 (and planted with grass), is completely refilled by a tidal wave.
1938: The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont.
1948: The musical Kiss Me, Kate opens for the first of 1,077 performances
1958: The Tybee Bomb, a 7,600 pound (3,500 kg) Mark 15 hydrogen bomb, is lost in the waters off Savannah, Georgia.
1968: A leap year; Singer Frankie Lymon is found dead from a heroin overdose in Harlem.
1978: Stump v. Sparkman (435 U.S. 349): The Supreme Court of the United States hands down a 5–3 decision in a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
1988: Gallaudet University, a Deaf university in Washington D.C. elects Dr. I King Jordan as the first deaf president in its history. This event is a turning point in the deaf civil rights movement.
1998: Natascha Kampusch is abducted by Wolfgang Priklopil (she will remain in his captivity until August 2006).
2002: The ex-currencies of all euro-using nations cease to be legal tender in the European Union.
Location of Headstone: Buena Vista Cemetery (Southwest of El Reno)
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