104 - Nancy Ellen Crume - Fairlawn Cemetery - Stillwater, OK
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Nancy Crume was born the same year that the invention of local anaesthesia by Karl Koller was made public at a medical congress in Heidelberg, Germany.
Waymark Code: WMHWDJ
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 08/19/2013
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The final resting place of Nancy Crume is at the far northeast corner of Fairlawn Cemetery, at the east side of the section.
Text on marker:
Aunt Nan
Nancy Ellen Crume
Aug. 21, 1884
Feb. 14, 1989
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Nancy's time on earth:
1884: Letitia Alice Walkington becomes the first woman to receive a degree from the Royal University of Ireland.
1894: The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1904: Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
1914: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia orders a partial mobilization against Austria-Hungary.
1924: A flash fire at a Christmas celebration in a one-room schoolhouse in Babbs, Oklahoma kills 36 people, mostly small children.
1934: Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
1944: At 10:15 p.m. local time, the BBC transmits the second line of the Paul Verlaine poem to the French Resistance, indicating that the invasion of Europe is about to begin
1954: The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
1964: Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa is convicted by a federal jury of tampering with a federal jury in 1962.
1974: An enormous outbreak of tornadoes strikes the central parts of the United States, killing around 319 people. Known as the "Super Outbreak", the event was the largest and deadliest outbreak of tornadoes for almost 40 years until an even larger outbreak surpassed it in 2011.
1984: The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California.
1989: President of the United States Ronald Reagan delivers his farewell address to the nation.
Location of Headstone: Fairlawn Cemetery
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