In the six years between 1974 and 1980, " comic or fantasy-related specialty shops " rose from numbering 200-300 to around 1500, while Pacific was " operating out of a office-warehouse in Kearny Mesa ," with " 500 wholesale accounts.

A second separation developed until about twenty-eight Americans including Kearny were in the forefront of the charge.

* 1871 – The U. S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.

The original work by Sagan and others was criticized as a " myth " and " discredited theory " in the 1987 book Nuclear War Survival Skills, a civil defense manual by Cresson Kearny for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

** The U. S. Army issued an order for the abandonment of Fort Kearny, Nebraska.

Ordered by Kearny to report to the adjutant general in Washington to stand for court-martial, Frémont was convicted of mutiny, disobedience of a superior officer and military misconduct.

The same situation resulted in the 19th century in Kearney, Nebraska, when that community was named for Mexican War General Stephen W. Kearny.

Kearny has an airport used for daytime take off and landing only.

During the Mexican-American War in 1846, Stephen W. Kearny delivered an address at the Plaza of Las Vegas claiming New Mexico for the United States.

Gen. Philip Kearny, who had lost his left arm, visited Howard and joked that they would be able to shop for gloves together.

* USS Kearny ( DD-432 ), US Navy destroyer named for Lawrence Kearny

Philip Kearny, Jr. (; June 2, 1815 – September 1, 1862 ) was a United States Army officer, notable for his leadership in the Mexican-American War and American Civil War.

Kearny was assigned to raise a troop of cavalry for the 1st U. S. Dragoons, Company F, in Terre Haute, Indiana.

* Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming was named for him ; it existed only two years.

* The General Philip Kearny Public School in Philadelphia was named for him when built in 1921.

* Kearny County, Kansas, is named for him.

Kearny set out for California on September 25, 1846 with a force of 300 men.

Stockton and Kearny had the same equivalent rank ( one star ) and unfortunately the War Department had not worked out a protocol for who would be in charge.

Kearny Street, in downtown San Francisco, is also named for him, as is a street within Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Fort Kearny in Nebraska is also named for him.

Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming and Fort Kearny in Washington, D. C., are named for him.

Col. Henry B. Carrington rejected the Tongue River site for a site to the south on Little Piney Creek, in the Powder River drainage, where Fort Phil Kearny was erected.

His mother worked for Western Electric in Kearny, New Jersey.

It comprises the former Western Electric Kearny Works and Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, the shipyards of which operated from 1917 to 1949 and played a prominent role in both World War I and World War II.

The Kearny Connection in Kearny, New Jersey allows suburban passenger trains from New Jersey Transit's Morris and Essex Lines ( former Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad ) to run to New York Penn Station, instead of their traditional ferry terminal on the river in Hoboken.

Kearny Junction is a railroad junction in Kearny, New Jersey, where the Kearny Connection splits from the former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad main line.

By the summer of 1846, American forces under General Stephen W. Kearny had captured New Mexico.

The following day, August 18, Stephen W. Kearny rode into Santa Fe, New Mexico with his Army of the West and declared the New Mexican territory conquered.

Kearny had orders from the Polk Administration to subdue both New Mexico and California, and to set up governments there.

Kearny and his forces were in danger, as his men were reduced in number and exhausted from the trek from New Mexico.

* Kearny, New Jersey, United States

New Jersey Transit's Madison station provides commuter service on the Morristown Line, with trains heading to Hoboken Terminal, and to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan via the Kearny Connection.

The arrival of the American Army under Stephen W. Kearny in 1846 ended the twenty-five years of Mexican rule in New Mexico.

In Las Vegas, New Mexico, Colonel Stephen W. Kearny proclaimed New Mexico's independence from Mexico.

Postal workers involved in 1978 wildcat strikes in Jersey City, Kearny, New Jersey, San Francisco, and Washington, D. C. were fired under the presidency of Jimmy Carter, and President Ronald Reagan fired air traffic controllers and the PATCO union after the air traffic controllers ' strike of 1981.

Later large factories included the Kearny Works in Kearny, New Jersey, Columbus Works in Columbus, Ohio and Kansas City Works in Lee Summit, Missouri.

* Kearney Works, Kearny, New Jersey ( full plant )

* Walter Kidde, B. E., 1897, founder of Walter Kidde Constructors ; oversaw the construction of Port Newark and Kearny, New Jersey's first traffic circle and the world's first cloverleaf interchange, the Pulaski Skyway ; served as New Jersey State Highway Commissioner ; founder of the Walter Kidde Company, maker of WWII safety equipment

* 1892: Waverly and Passaic Railroad ( finished by the New York Bay Railroad ) from Waverly, New Jersey to Kearny, New Jersey

* Philip Kearny, New Jersey

WNYC's AM transmitter is located in Kearny, New Jersey, and WNYC-FM's transmitter is located on the Empire State Building in New York City.