Grace H. Harrell was born on June 19, 1896, and died on March 21, 1999 (
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Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1896):
* January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
* April 6 – The opening ceremonies of the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first modern Olympic Games, are held in Athens.
* June 15 – The opening ceremonies of the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first modern Olympic Games, are held in Athens.
* August 27 – The shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War, starts at 9 in the morning and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling.
* September 22 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest-reigning monarch in British history.
* November 30 – 'St. Augustine Monster': A large carcass, later postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, is found washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida.
* December 14 – The Glasgow Subway, the third-oldest underground metro system in the world, opens.
* December 25 – John Philip Sousa composes his magnum opus, The Stars and Stripes Forever.
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Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1999):
* January 1 – The euro is established.
* January 25 – The 6.2 Mw Armenia, Colombia earthquake hits western Colombia, killing at least 1,000.
* February 7 – King Hussein of Jordan dies from cancer, and his son Abdullah II inherits the throne.
* February 12 – U.S. President Bill Clinton is acquitted in impeachment proceedings in the United States Senate.
* March 12 – Former Warsaw Pact members Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic join NATO.
* March 21 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
* March 26 - A Michigan jury finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
* April 20 – Columbine High School massacre: Two Littleton, Colorado teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, open fire on their teachers and classmates, killing 12 students and 1 teacher, and then themselves.
* May 29 - Cathy O'Dowd, a South African mountaineer, becomes the first woman to summit Mount Everest from both the north and south sides.
* July 16 – Off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, a plane crashes piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr., killing him, his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister Lauren Bessette.
* October 29 – a super cyclonic storm impacts Orissa, India, killing approximately 10,000 people.
* December 31 - Boris Yeltsin resigned as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
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