101 - Beulah Little Monday - Omaha, NE
N 41° 19.654 W 095° 59.188
15T E 250066 N 4579424
Centenarian Beulah Little Monday was born on March 12, 1901, and died on September 10, 2002. Her grave is located in historic Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
Waymark Code: WMCBCN
Location: Nebraska, United States
Date Posted: 08/18/2011
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1901):
* January 1 – The world celebrates the beginning of the 20th century.
* January 7 – Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.
* February 6 – First public telephones at railway stations in Paris.
* March 4 – United States President William McKinley begins his 2nd term. Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
* March 5 – Irish nationalist demonstrators ejected by police from House of Commons of the United Kingdom in London.
* March 6 – In Bremen, an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
* March 11 – United Kingdom rejects amended Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
* March 17 – A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
* April 25 – New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates.
* May 3 – The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, FL.
* June 12 – Cuba becomes a U.S. protectorate.
* August 6 – Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on the RRS Discovery to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica.
* August 30 – Hubert Cecil Booth patents an electric vacuum cleaner.
* September 2 – U.S. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
* September 6 – American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later.
* September 14 – Theodore Roosevelt succeeds William McKinley as President of the United States.
* September 26 – The body of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick.
* October 24 – Michigan schoolteacher Annie Taylor goes down Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives.
* November 28 – The new state constitution of Alabama requires voters to have passed literacy tests.
* December 10 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (2002):
* January 1 – Euro notes and coins are issued in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Finland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and the Netherlands.
* February 13 – Queen Elizabeth gives former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani an honorary knighthood.
* March 30 – Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother dies in her sleep at the Royal lodge, aged 101.
* April 18 – The discovery of a new insect order, Mantophasmatodea, is announced.
* May 30 – The final piece of debris from The World Trade Center is removed from Ground Zero.
* June 15 – Near Earth Asteroid 2002 MN misses the planet by 75,000 miles (120,000 km), about 1/3 the distance to the moon.
* September 10 – Switzerland joins the United Nations.
* December 30 – An eruption on the volcanic island Stromboli off the coast of Sicily causes a flank failure and tsunami. The island is later evacuated.
Location of Headstone: Cemetery
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