2014 Event The World Health Organization reports that the rate of Ebola infection is slowing in Liberia, with hospitals now at less than full capacity; the slowdown is attributed to a campaign to educate citizens on safe burial practices 2014 Event Thomas Frieden, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cautions that the Ebola epidemic will soon be uncontrollable unless more workers are found to aid in treatment of victims and burial of contagious bodies 2013 Event New research on the Shroud of Turin supports that it may actually been used as Jesus Christ's burial cloth; researchers used mechanical and thermal measurements to date the shroud between 300 BC and 400 AD 2012 Event Archeologist excavating the Templo Mayor, one of the Aztec's main temples in their capital city of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico city), make an unprecedented find - the skeleton of a young woman inside a burial, surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones 2011 Event Burial services for Claude Choules, aged 110, the last living veteran of World War I, take place in West Australia's port of Fremantle 1988 Event Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages 1988 Event Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin not Christ's burial cloth 1984 Event Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki 1984 Event Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial of half of his ashes 1975 Event Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC 1901 Event Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited 1901 Event 1st British motorized burial 1827 Event 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna 1754 Event Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam 1656 Event New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site
