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1842 – The University of Notre Dame (building pictured) was founded by Edward Sorin of the Congregation of Holy Cross as an all-male institution in the U.S. state of Indiana.
WAFB (channel 9) is a television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Gray Television alongside low-power, Class A MyNetworkTV affiliate WBXH-CD (channel 39). The two stations share studios on Government Street in downtown Baton Rouge; WAFB's transmitter is located on River Road near the city's Riverbend section.
1805 – Spanish Town, first residential area, is established. 1806 – Beauregard Town, second neighborhood, is established. 1810 – Baton Rouge becomes part of the Republic of West Florida in September, [2] but by December the republic is annexed by the U.S. into the Territory of Orleans, which in 1812 becomes the state of Louisiana.
In the late 1940s, Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish became a consolidated city/parish with a mayor/president leading the government. It was one of the first cities in the nation to consolidate with county government. The parish surrounds three other incorporated cities: Baker, Zachary, and Central.
1922 – Åland's Regional Assembly convened for its first plenary session in Mariehamn, Åland; [1] today, the day is celebrated as Self-Government Day of Åland. [2] 1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup. 1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the ...
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Melvin Rambin, mayor of Monroe, 2000–2001; former banker in Baton Rouge, interred at Roselawn Memorial Park in Baton Rouge, R [80] Buddy Roemer, former governor and Baton Rouge businessman (b. 1943), I [81] Frank P. Simoneaux, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for East Baton Rouge Parish, 1972–1982; lawyer in Baton Rouge, D [82]
An abandoned eight-month-infant was found safe in a field in Baton Rouge, Louisiana earlier this week by police and first responders. The Baton Rouge Police Department shared news of the infant ...