107 - Lillian Loughhead Burch - Oklahoma City, OK
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N 35° 36.178 W 097° 29.574
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Lillian L. Burch was born just before notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then to Spain
Waymark Code: WME83H
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 04/16/2012
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The final resting place of Lillian L. Burch is at the far south side of Memorial Park Cemetery, near the center of section 32. Hers is a flat reddish marker, with two long horizontal text boxes for her name and years of birth/death. Etches decorative lines are between those two boxes.
Text on Lillian's headstone:
Lillian Loughhead Burch
Nov. 21, 1875 Apr. 30, 1983
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Lillian's lifetime:
1875: The Massachusetts Rifle Association, "America's Oldest Active Gun Club", is formed
1885: February concludes without having a full moon
1895: Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise speech
1905: Albert Einstein submits his doctoral dissertation On the Motion of Small Particles..., in which he explains Brownian motion. In the course of the year, Einstein publishes four papers, formulates the theory of special relativity and explains the photoelectric effect by quantization. 1905 is regarded as his "miracle year".
1915: John McCrae writes In Flanders Fields
1925: Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor (Wyoming) in the United States. Fifteen days later, Ma Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas
1935: Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly
1945: The evacuation of Auschwitz concentration camp begins. Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to an unprecedented fourth term as President of the United States. No president before, or since, has ever reached a third term in office.
1955: First edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published, in London
1965: Goldie, a London Zoo golden eagle, is recaptured 12 days after her escape
1975: Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up
1983: Motown celebrates it's 25th anniversary and has the television special Motown 25 when Michael Jackson performed Billie Jean and introduced to the world the moonwalk
Location of Headstone: Memorial Park Cemetery, section 32
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