102 - Nora Alice Taylor -Resthaven Gardens Cemetery - OKC, OK
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Max and 99
N 35° 21.737 W 097° 31.505
14S E 633997 N 3914218
Nora Alice Taylor was born the same year that J. P. Morgan bought mines and steel mills in the United States, marking the first billion dollar business deal.
Waymark Code: WMH86Y
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 06/05/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
Views: 7

The final resting place of Nora Alice Taylor is at the north side of Resthaven Gardens, in the Garden of Beatitudes. Hers is a horizontal, double marker with the following text:


Taylor

Nora Alice
1901 - 2003

Ferris Howard, Sr.
1899 - 1967


Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Nora's time on earth:

1901: New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates.
1911: The United States Army adopts a new service pistol, the M1911 designed by John Browning. It remains the US service pistol for 74 years.
1921: Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th President of the United States.
1931: Albert Einstein begins doing research at the California Institute of Technology, along with astronomer Edwin Hubble.
1941: Six-year-old Elaine Esposito goes to an appendix operation in Florida and lapses into a coma, dying 37 years later, still comatose.
1951: Winston Churchill is re-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a general election which sees the defeat of Clement Attlee's Labour government after six years in power
1961: The United States launches its first test of the Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile
1971: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
1981: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 5 homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (the first recognized cases of AIDS).
1991: The 1991 Perfect Storm strikes the northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada, causing over $200 million of damage and resulting in 12 direct fatalities.
2003: An American businessman is admitted to the Vietnam France Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam, with the first identified case of SARS. WHO doctor Carlo Urbani reports the unusual, highly contagious disease to WHO. Both the businessman and doctor later die of the disease.
Location of Headstone: Resthaven Gardens Cemetery , Beatitudes Section

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