102 - Ella Vergetporer Bohm - Salzburg, Austria
N 47° 47.789 E 013° 02.719
33T E 353619 N 5295530
Centenarian Ella Bohm nee Vergetporer was born in 1879 and died in 1981. Her grave is located in the St. Peter's Cemetery in Salzburg, Austria.
Waymark Code: WMMGAV
Location: Salzburg, Austria
Date Posted: 09/16/2014
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1879):
* May 30 – New York City's Gilmore's Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt, and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
* June 1 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial (Napoléon IV), great-nephew of Napoléon Bonaparte, Bonapartist pretender to the French throne, is killed in Africa while attached to the British Army during the Anglo–Zulu War.
* July 19 – Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up Holliday's New Mexico saloon.
* October 13 – First female students admitted to study for degrees of Oxford University in England, at the new Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville Hall and with the Society of Oxford Home-Students.
* October 22 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric light bulb (it lasts 13½ hours before burning out).
* November 4 — Thomas Edison applies for the patent for his invention, the incandescent light bulb U.S. Patent 223,898 will be granted on January 27, 1880.
* December 30 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance is first performed in Paignton, Devon, England.
Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1981):
* January 1 – Greece enters the European Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 20 – Ronald Reagan succeeds Jimmy Carter, as the 40th President of the United States. Minutes later, Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, ending the Iran hostage crisis.
* March 30 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady are also wounded.
* May 13 – Pope John Paul II is shot and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish gunman, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Rome to address a general audience.
* June 5 – 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).
* July 29 – Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales.
* August 24 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, after being convicted of murdering John Lennon in Manhattan 8 months earlier.
* October 6 – Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is assassinated during a parade by army members who belong to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization; they opposed his negotiations with Israel.
* December 11 – Boxing: Muhammad Ali loses to Trevor Berbick; this proved to be Ali's last-ever fight.
* December 28 – The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
Location of Headstone: Churchyard Cemetery
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