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The 1991 Washington, D.C., riot, sometimes referred to as the Mount Pleasant riot or Mount Pleasant Disturbance, [1] occurred in May 1991, when rioting broke out in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in response to an African-American female police officer having shot a Salvadoran man in the chest following a Cinco de Mayo celebration.
On August 6, 1993, 22-year-old Fort Bragg soldier Kenneth Junior French, armed with two shotguns and a rifle, opened fire inside a Luigi's restaurant in Fayetteville, North Carolina, killing four people and injuring seven others. The case was featured in the 1997 documentary film Licensed to Kill. [1] [2]
Townhomes built during the development of Mount Pleasant at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1861, William Selden, former Treasurer of the United States, owned 73 acres (300,000 m 2) of land north of Pierce Mill Road, but having been a Confederate sympathizer, was forced was forced to sell his land at a low price and move back to Virginia.
A DCFD fire engine in December 2005. DCFD Engine Company #23 (Foggy Bottom Firehouse) DCFD Engine 7 On January 13, 1803, District of Columbia passed its first law about fire control, requiring the owner of each building in the district to provide at least one leather firefighting bucket per story or pay a $1 fine per missing bucket.
DC Fire posted on social media that an adjacent four-story building that is part of new complex attached to the firehouse was also “well involved.” The department said several adjacent homes ...
September 18, 1978 (3657 Lemon St. Riverside: 4: Andreas Canyon: January 8, 1973 (Address Restricted: Palm Springs: 5: Archeological Sites CA-RIV-504 and CA-RIV-773
Discovering his love for cooking at an early age, Capri opened his first restaurant with his mother Annamaria in 1984 when he was only 16 years old. He has been operating restaurants around the ...
Snow Weekes, 20, is pictured in a sack race during the Pleasant City Family Reunion on Saturday at Blum Park in West Palm Beach. Pleasant City is the first and oldest African-American community in ...