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The Hatfield–McCoy Feud involved two American families of the West Virginia–Kentucky area along the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River from 1863 to 1891. The Hatfields of West Virginia were led by William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield, while the McCoys of Kentucky were under the leadership of Randolph "Ole Ran'l" McCoy.
May 31 – Peter Vivian Daniel, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1841 to 1860 (born 1784) June 6 – Henry P. Haun, U.S. Senator from California from 1859 to 1860 (born 1815) July 1 – Charles Goodyear, inventor (born 1800) September 12 – William Walker, filibuster, briefly President of Nicaragua, executed (born 1824)
6 April – Henry Willis, New South Wales politician (d. 1950) 20 June – Jack Worrall, Australian rules footballer , cricketer and journalist (d. 1937) 23 June – Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, evolutionary biologist, anthropologist, and ethnologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1929) 27 July – Carty Salmon, Victorian politician (d. 1917)
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Franklin Lafayette Riley Jr. (August 24, 1868 – November 10, 1929) was an American historian. The title of his dissertation was Colonial Origins of New England Senates . [ 1 ] After receiving his doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University he was appointed as the first Professor of History at Ole Miss .
Since 1860, and excluding unreconstructed Southern states in 1868 and 1872, there have been two occasions where a Republican presidential candidate failed to poll votes in every state [h], while national Democratic candidates have failed to appear on all state ballots in three elections since the introduction of the secret ballot, though in all ...
The illegal immigrant accused of murdering Georgia nursing student Laken Riley appeared in court Friday for a lengthy hearing ahead of his trial, slated for next month.. Venezuelan migrant Jose ...
William Bell Riley (March 22, 1861 – December 5, 1947) was an American Baptist evangelical Christian pastor. He was known as "The Grand Old Man of Fundamentalism." He was known as "The Grand Old Man of Fundamentalism."