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Atlanta was hit by two tornadoes exactly a year apart on December 8, 1916, and 1917. The first destroyed 35 homes and many smaller buildings. Two people were killed, and fifteen were injured. The second tornado was less destructive, destroying several churches, homes, and businesses. A child was killed, and two other people were injured.
The original configuration of the North American Numbering Plan assigned eighty-six area codes in October 1947, one each to every numbering plan area. The territories of the United States , which included Alaska , and Hawaii, did not receive area codes at first, nor did the territories of Canada or Newfoundland and Labrador, which was a British ...
2023: returned to the pool of area codes available for future area code relief; 457: Louisiana (Shreveport–Bossier City, Monroe, Alexandria, Fisher, Tallulah, and most of northern Louisiana) September 25, 2025 [3] to be overlaid on 318; previously a fictitious area code assigned to identify Naked DSL/Dry Loop and dedicated data lines in ...
Louisiana is a South Central US state, with a 2020 US census resident population of 4,657,757, [2] and apportioned population of 4,661,468. [3] [4] Much of the state's population is concentrated in southern Louisiana in the Greater New Orleans, Florida Parishes, and Acadiana regions, with the remainder in North and Central Louisiana's major metropolitan areas (Shreveport-Bossier City; Monroe ...
The history of the area that is now the U.S. state of Louisiana, can be traced back thousands of years to when it was occupied by indigenous peoples. The first indications of permanent settlement, ushering in the Archaic period, appear about 5,500 years ago. The area that is now Louisiana formed part of the Eastern Agricultural Complex.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court restored a Louisiana electoral map that has two of the state's six congressional districts with Black-majority populations for use in the Nov. 5 ...
The state operated with two area codes until May 3, 1992, when area code 706 was created for the two separate areas outside of the metro Atlanta area. Due to complaints from exurban residents who were to be put in 706, they were moved back into 404, which makes every new area code added to the metro area run out of numbers sooner.
The Territory of Louisiana or Louisiana Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805, [1] until June 4, 1812, when it was renamed the Missouri Territory.