101 - Minnie B. (Ross) Raines - Kolb Cemetery - Spencer, OK
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Minnie Raines was born the same year that The Tower Bridge in London opened for traffic.
Waymark Code: WMJ09M
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/04/2013
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The final resting place of Minnie Raines is at the southwest corner of Kolb Cemetery, near the center of section 2.
Text on marker:
Mother
Minnie B. (Ross) Raines
1894 - 1995
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Minnie's time on earth:
1894: In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
1904: U.S. Army engineers begin work on The Panama Canal.
1914: The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,012 lives are lost.
1924: The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps).
1934: Surgeon R. K. Wilson allegedly photographs the Loch Ness Monster.
1944: At Camp Hood, Texas, future baseball star and 1st Lt. Jackie Robinson is arrested and later court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of a segregated U.S. Army bus. He is eventually acquitted.
1954: Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory at Madison Square Garden, in the first televised boxing prize fight to be shown in colour.
1964: The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, marking their first live performance on American television. Seen by an estimated 73 million viewers, the appearance becomes the catalyst for the mid-1960s "British Invasion" of American popular music.
1974: After a record 84 days in orbit, the crew of Skylab 4 returns to Earth.
1984: Beverly Lynn Burns becomes the first woman Boeing 747 captain in the world.
1995: Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Timothy McVeigh and one of his accomplices, Terry Nichols, set off the bomb.
Location of Headstone: Kolb Cemetery
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