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On April 15, 1861 Josias R. King enlisted in the First Minnesota Voluneer Infantry ("First Minnesota"). The First Minnesota is officially recognized as the senior volunteer regiment in the Union Army as Minnesota Governor Alexander Ramsey was the first governor to offer state troops to President Abraham Lincoln to serve the Union .
[T]hat part of the State of Florida lying south of a line drawn due east and west from the northern point of Charlotte Harbor, including the islands, keys, reefs, shoals, harbors, bays and inlets, south of said line, shall be erected into a new judicial district, to be called the Southern District of Florida; a District Court shall be held in ...
The Florida Radicals failed to gather support in Congress for their constitution, with even Benjamin Butler supporting the moderate's constitution. [8] The constitution was approved by voters in 1868. [9] Democrats regained control of Florida's state politics and across the South. Their control lasted until 1966 when Claude R. Kirk, Jr. was ...
The .338 Whisper (8.59x38mm) is a wildcat cartridge in the Whisper family, a group of cartridges developed in the early 1990s by J.D. Jones of SSK Industries. [1] Unlike the smaller caliber cartridges in the Whisper family, loads for the .338 Whisper are mainly limited to subsonic velocities.
R.P. Resor United States: 28 February 1942 Torpedoed by U-578: Rusland: Struck wreck of Adonis. San Saba: Struck a naval mine. Sindia: 1901 Ran aground on the beach of Ocean City. USS St. Augustine United States Navy: 6 January 1944 A gunboat that was accidentally rammed by Camas Meadows off Cape May. Stolt Dagali: Sank in a collision. USS ...
Coast Guard Base Six, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Killed two U.S. coastguardsmen and a Secret Service agent. [17] Herbert Hoover: Carl Panzram: Hanging Murder September 5, 1930 United States Penitentiary (USP), Leavenworth, Kansas Killed a federal prison employee. Linked to 4 other murders; claimed to have killed 22 people. George Barrett: Hanging
Below is a list of notable members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority (commonly referred to as Zetas).Zeta Phi Beta was founded on January 16, 1920, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. [1] The sorority was incorporated in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1923.
Racial and ethnic demographics of the United States in percentage of the population. The United States census enumerated Whites and Blacks since 1790, Asians and Native Americans since 1860 (though all Native Americans in the U.S. were not enumerated until 1890), "some other race" since 1950, and "two or more races" since 2000. [2]