100 - Lillian Browning Canon - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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N 35° 31.811 W 097° 32.399
14S E 632368 N 3932820
Lillian Browning Canon was born the same year of the First Tour de France bicycle race, won by Maurice Garin.
Waymark Code: WMH6WF
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 06/01/2013
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The final resting place of Lillian Canon is at the southwest side of Rose Hill Burial Park, at the southeast corner of the section.
Text on marker:
Lillian Browning Canon
Apr. 24, 1903
June 8, 2003
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Lillian's time on earth:
1903: The first modern World Series, pitting the National League's Pittsburgh Pirates against Boston of the American League, begins at Pittsburgh's Exposition Park.
1913: Mexican Revolution: President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President José María Pino Suárez are forced to resign. Pedro Lascuráin serves as President for less than an hour before General Victoriano Huerta, leader of the coup, takes office
1923: Louis Armstrong makes his first recording, "Chimes Blues," with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
1933: The Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "Bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ends on March 13).
1943: Mohandas Gandhi (under arrest by the British Raj in Pune as a member of the Quit India Movement) keeps a hunger strike to protest at his imprisonment.
1953: President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
1963: The Beatles record their debut album Please Please Me in a single day at the Abbey Road Studios in London.
1973: A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and American Indian Movement activists who were occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, ends with the surrender of the militants.
1983: Nintendo's Family Computer, also known as the Famicom, goes on sale in Japan and the Philippines
1993: The 65th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Unforgiven winning Best Picture.
2003: The WHO issues a global alert on SARS.
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 14
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