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Samuel Gompers in the office of the American Federation of Labor, 1887. Convinced that no accommodation with the leadership of the Knights of Labor was possible, the heads of the five labor organizations which issued the call for the April 1886 conference issued a new call for a convention to be held December 8, 1886, in Columbus, Ohio, in order to construct "an American federation of alliance ...
Signed in March 1900, this agreement formed the basis of British relations with Buganda, the Kabaka (King) was recognised as ruler of Buganda as long he remained faithful to her Majesty, the Lukiko (council of chiefs) given statutory recognition.
In order to avoid traditional constitutional challenges based on Roe v. Wade , the law provides that any person, with or without any vested interest, may sue anyone that performs or induces an abortion in violation of the statute, as well as anyone who "aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion, including paying for or ...
Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Charles M. Schwab founded Bethlehem Steel. Other industry titans, including John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould , operated in the state. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. oil industry was born in western Pennsylvania, which supplied the vast majority of kerosene for years ...
A building on the campus of the New York Institute of Technology, founded in 1955 in Manhattan The University of Chicago team that worked on the production of the world's first man-made, self-sustaining nuclear reactor, including Enrico Fermi in the front row and Leó Szilárd in the second The University of Miami, founded in 1925 in Coral ...
Before 1800, the growing of tobacco, rice, and indigo in plantations in the Southern colonies had relied heavily on the labor of slaves from Africa. [19] The Atlantic slave trade to mainland North America stopped during the American Revolution and was outlawed in most states by 1800 and the entire nation in the 1808 Act Prohibiting Importation ...
Clemson won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1900 and 1902 (tied 1903 and 1906) along with the Southern Conference title in 1940 and 1948. [12] Their 21 ACC titles (19 outright, 2 tied) are the most ACC football championships.
The bridge siphoned off commercial traffic to Cleveland before it could reach Ohio City's mercantile district. [17] These actions aggravated citizens of Ohio City, and brought to the surface a fierce rivalry between the small town and Cleveland. [18] Ohio City citizens rallied for "Two Bridges or None!".