Grandma's Year of Birth

My grandmother, Lucretia Tribble, was born April 4th, 1895. She grew up in or near Topeka, Kansas.

• Oscar Wilde's play, "The Importance of Being Earnest," premiered that year. I was the character, Miss Prism, in that play when I was in high school. Unfortunately for Oscar Wilde, that same year, he was accused of homosexuality and sentenced to two years hard labor for his behavior.
• Tchaikovsky's ballet, "Swan Lake," also premiered that year.
• The moving picture projector was patented as was a glass blowing machine.
• The first female PhD (in science) was earned by Caroline Willard Baldwin.
• Katherine Lee Bates published, "America the Beautiful."
• Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize.

The year Grandma turned 16 (1911),  the first Indianapolis auto race was run and the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre (recovered in 1913).