When Mary Mabel Braffett was born on 2 December 1900, in Mercer, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Braffett, was 36 and her mother, Emma Mae Wilkerson, was 31. She married Guy Raymond George on 18 September 1918, in Mercer, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Washington Township, Mercer, Missouri, United States in 1920. She died on 13 May 1993, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Forest Park Cemetery, Houston, Harris, Texas, United States.
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"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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