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The Memphis 13 are the group of young children who integrated the schools of Memphis, Tennessee. On October 3, 1961, 13 African-American first grade students were enrolled in schools that were previously all white. The schools that the students attended were Bruce, Gordon, Rozelle, and Springdale elementary schools. [1]
July 11 - A Standard Oil Company 12 inch gasoline pipeline ruptured & ignited, in Antioch, California, destroying 2 homes & damaging nearby railroad tracks. There were 2 minor injuries. [166] July 26 – A bulldozer hit a gas pipeline, south of Childress, Texas, causing a large gas fire. The bulldozer operator was slightly injured.
Tennessee (Memphis) Moore was struck by a Memphis police vehicle and died the next day. She apparently disobeyed several pedestrian conventions before she was hit. [173] 1993-01-07: Gutierrez, Steven (26) California (Oxnard) Gutierrez allegedly fired a shot at an off-duty police officer investigating a robbery at a restaurant.
In Memphis, 25.96 people per 100,000 residents were killed in fatal motor vehicle accidents, the most of any major U.S. city. Detroit and Albuquerque, New Mexico, followed with the highest rate of ...
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Memphis, Texas, the county seat of Hall County, is at the junction of U.S. Highway 287, State Highway 256, and Farm to Market Road 1547, in the northeastern part of the county. It started in 1889, when J. C. Montgomery purchased land for a townsite north of Salisbury on the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway.
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Texas: Levelland UFO case: The Levelland UFO case occurred on November 2–3, 1957, in the small town of Levelland, Texas. Levelland, which in 1957 had a population of about 10,000, is located west of Lubbock on the flat prairie of the Texas panhandle. September 19, 1961: Lancaster: New Hampshire: Betty and Barney Hill abduction