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The gang entered and robbed a small general store, they then stopped and boarded a train at 4:45 PM and stole $12,000 (equivalent to $290,000 in 2023) from rich men (they avoided robbing working-class men and women.) [9] [10] [11] Big Springs, Nebraska: 18 September, 1877 Sam Bass, Joel Collins, Jack Davis, Tom Nixon, Bill Heffridge, and Jim Berry
April 25 – The Fun Lounge police raid near Chicago resulted in 109 arrests and led to the creation of Mattachine Midwest, a gay rights organization modeled after the Mattachine Society. September 19 – A small group pickets the Whitehall Street Induction Center in New York City after the confidentiality of gay men's draft records was violated.
[10] [11] Judge Fuller selected the site that was already in use for the makeshift camps because it was only 4 miles (6.4 km) from downtown Chicago, prairie surrounded the site, nearby Lake Michigan could provide water, and the Illinois Central Railroad ran within a few hundred yards of the site. [5] Plan of Camp Douglas, 1864–65.
History of Labette County, Kansas, and Representative Citizens Chicago: Biographical Publishing, 1901 [47] De la Garza, Phyllis. Death for Dinner: The Benders of (Old) Kansas. Talei Publishers, 2004. ISBN 978-0-9631772-9-2; Debczak, Michele. "The Kansas Land That Once Belonged to the Bloody Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family, Is Up ...
While working in radio in the 1980s and 1990s, she also performed at many comedy clubs around New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. [16] [17] She appeared twice on A & E's An Evening at the Improv, on the A&E TV Network, on August 5, 1988, and March 3, 1989. [18] She was also the first comedian to perform when the Chicago Improv club opened.
By the mid-twentieth century, Beirut had become the luxury department store of the Near East. [151] Beirut remains a shopping magnet in the region, with shoppers from neighboring Levantine countries heading to Beirut to shop. [152] Department stores in Lebanon include today ABC Group, The Sultan Center, Aïshti and Spinneys.
The 2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods were a weather event that affected parts of Great Britain and Ireland throughout November and into December 2009. November was the wettest month across the United Kingdom since records began in 1914 and had well above average temperatures. [1]