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unusual facts about state funeral



Allan Gotlieb

When Ronald Reagan died in 2004, Gotlieb provided expert help in the commentary for CBC Newsworld's coverage of the state funeral, helping the CBC's senior parliamentary editor, Don Newman, who anchored the coverage, drawing from his experiences as Canadian ambassador to Washington when Reagan was president.

Altaf Husain

He died on died on 25 May 1968 and was buried with state honors in Model Colony cemetery.

Costigan Commission

At Kerry Packer's state funeral in February 2006, his son James stated that the Packers had never forgiven Costigan for what they took to be a smear.

Lorraine Segato

She performed "Rise Up" at the state funeral of Jack Layton on August 27, 2011, supported by the choir of the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto.

St Martin's Church, Bladon

So, on 30 January 1965, after his state funeral service at St Paul's Cathedral (the largest ever held in world history up to that point), London, his body was taken by train to nearby Hanborough railway station and thence to Bladon.


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Adnan Khairallah

When announcing Khairallah's death, Saddam referred to him as one of the distingushed war heros and a sparkling star in Iraq's sky. Baghdad Radio announced that Khairallah would be given a state funeral and buried in his hometown of Tikrit.

Albert S. Willis

An elaborate state funeral was held for him in the ʻIolani Palace (temporarily renamed the Executive Building).

Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen

When he died in Arco on 18 February 1895, Archduke Albrecht received a state funeral and was buried in tomb 128 of the Imperial crypt in Vienna.

Bai T. Moore

After a state funeral at the Centennial Memorial Pavilion, attended by cultural troupes from the Dey, Gola, Vai, Kpelle, Gbandi, and Gio tribes, Bai T. Moore was finally laid to rest in his native Dimeh.

Hiram Torres Rigual

He died on December 3, 2006 in Miami, Florida, and was honored with a state funeral at the Supreme Court attended by Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Senate President Kenneth McClintock, House Speaker José Aponte Hernández as well as the six members of the Supreme Court.

Nāhienaena

Ship's artist Robert Dampier painted a portrait of the ten-year-old princess, dressed in a red feather cloak for the state funeral.

Panhard EBR

A turretless Panhard EBR vehicle carried the coffin of the late French president Charles de Gaulle at his state funeral.

Paul Löbe

At the time of Löbe's state funeral at the Rathaus Schöneberg on 9 August 1967, Andreas Baader (the later Red Army Faction militant), the author Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and others in a satirical rally carried a coffin bearing the words “SENAT” to the front of the city hall.

Peter Ujvagi

He was a member of the American delegation to the state funeral of Hungarian Prime Minister József Antall (1993).

Robb Austin

Atwater introduced Austin to Reagan and included him in White House social functions and high level events, including the October 8, 1981, South Lawn departure ceremony of former Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter who were leading the nation's delegation to the State funeral of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

Wilhelm Burgdorf

Burgdorf had been instructed by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel to offer Rommel a choice – take poison, receive a state funeral, and obtain immunity for his family and staff, or face a trial for treason.

Zhang Lingfu

Chiang Kai-shek personally arranged a state funeral for Zhang after recovering his remains from the Communist forces, and renamed the Mengyin County of Shangdong province in his honor, and a naval destroyer was also been named in his honor.