Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

* 1874 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.

The Arbor Day Holiday was founded more than 120 years ago in Nebraska City, Nebraska, by J.

Nebraska City is home of Arbor Day, the Missouri River Basin Lewis and Clark Center ( which focuses on the natural history achievements of the expedition ), and the Mayhew Cabin, the only site in the state recognized by the National Park Service as a station on the Underground Railroad.

Governor Robert Furnas of Nebraska issued the first Arbor Day Proclamation on March 31, 1874.

Nebraska City is known as " The Home of Arbor Day ".

In Nebraska City is Arbor Lodge, home of the first Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, J.

The National Arbor Day Foundation has its headquarters near his home in Nebraska City.

Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia ; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois ; Arts Council, England ; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, England ; The British Museum, London, England ; City Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries, England ; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio ; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine ; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York ; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C .; Imperial War Museum, London, England ; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin ; Iziko Museum of Cape Town, South Africa ; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York ; The Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman ; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska ; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, England ; MIT-List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany ; Museum Neuhaus — Sammlung Liaunig, Austria ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois ; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts ; The Museum of Modern Art, New York ; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C .; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York ; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C .; Portland Museum of Art, Maine ; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Gallery, Edinburgh ; Southampton City Art Gallery, England ; Tate Gallery, London, England ; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland ; The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor ; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England ; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond ; The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England ; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York ; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

Sterling Morton built a 52-room mansion that is a look-alike of the White House in what is now Arbor Lodge State Historical Park, Nebraska City, Nebraska.

The Morton home and estate in Nebraska City is now a state park, the Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Arboretum.

Gioia edited The Ceremony and other stories ( Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 1984 ) and Reidel edited selection of Kees ’ s critical writings in Reviews and Essays: 1936-1955 ( Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988 ) and the novel Fall Quarter ( Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1990 ).

Sterling Morton -- founder of Arbor Day, U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, legislator, and Territorial Secretary of Nebraska.

* " Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off and Other Lessons from the Lewis and Clark Trail " by Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs ( University of Nebraska Press, 2008 )

To prevent war, Brigham Young led the Mormon pioneers ( constituting most of the Latter Day Saints ) to a temporary winter quarters in Nebraska and then eventually ( beginning in 1847 ) to what became the Utah Territory.

Day of Ohio won their respective primaries, the 70-year-old Borah, a well-known progressive and " insurgent ," won the Wisconsin, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Oregon primaries, while also performing quite strongly in Knox's Illinois and Green's South Dakota.

The work of noted feminist author Kate McPhelim Cleary was featured during the opening of the Nebraska Day ceremonies at the fair, which included a reading of her poem " Nebraska ".

Yearly events in Crawford include the Peabody Hale Fiddle Contest, the Old West Trail PRCA Rodeo, the Northwest Nebraska Rock Swap, numerous Independence Day activities, and the Fort Robinson Western & Wildlife Art Show.

" It has since been largely eclipsed by the more widely observed Earth Day, except in Nebraska, where it originated.

The largest group of Latter Day Saints followed nine of the Twelve Apostles west, establishing a way station at Winter Quarters, Nebraska in 1846, and entering Salt Lake Valley in 1847.

Michigan won by five on New Year's Day and the next night, Nebraska beat Tennessee ( playing with an injury-hobbled Peyton Manning ) by 25.

The tenth event produced under the Judgment Day chronology was held on May 18, 2008 at the Qwest Center Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.

The seven-year-old Smith drove the team of oxen, with his family, to the Latter Day Saint encampment at Winter Quarters, Nebraska.

Then on New Year's Day, Duke beat the Nebraska 34 – 7 in the 1955 Orange Bowl.

Category: Latter Day Saint movement in Nebraska

* The Day of the Parrot and Other Poems ( University of Nebraska Press, 1968 )

* July 6 – The world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska.

* June 22 – The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska.

** Eagle meteorite of 1946, which fell in Nebraska, United States ( see meteorite falls )

* 1966 – Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska killing all 42 on board.

The national holiday is celebrated every year on the last Friday in April ; in Nebraska, it is a civic holiday.

The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.

On May 13, 2007, Bo Diddley was admitted to intensive care in Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, following a stroke after a concert in Council Bluffs, Iowa on May 12.

Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska on April 6, 1903, the son of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut and a descendent of Governor William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

She was born in Hamilton County, Nebraska on Sept. 8, 1903 and died on March 9, 2002 in Charlestown, South Carolina.

Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska takes five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and $ 300 million in damages all told, according to National Weather Service and American Red Cross statistics on the deadly storm.

When Congress reconvened on December 5, 1853, this group, termed the “ F Street Mess ”, along with Virginian William O. Goode, formed the nucleus that would insist on slaveholder equality in Nebraska.

Iowa Sen. Augustus C. Dodge immediately reintroduced the same legislation to organize Nebraska that had stalled in the previous session ; it was referred to Douglas ’ s committee on December 14.

In the new bill the territory of Nebraska was extended north all the way to the 49th parallel, and any decisions on slavery were to be made " when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union, with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission.

Just as the creation of New Mexico and Utah territories had not ruled on the validity of Mexican law on the acquired territory, the Nebraska bill was neither " affirming or repealing ... the Missouri act.

In 1720 the Villasur expedition from Santa Fe tried to reach the French on the Mississippi but was defeated by the Pawnee in eastern Nebraska.

Missouri is bounded on the north by Iowa ; on the east, across the Mississippi River, by Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee ; on the south by Arkansas ; and on the west by Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska ( the last across the Missouri River ).

For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front ( University of Nebraska Press ; 2010 ; 308 pages ).

The ratification of the Amendment was completed on January 16, 1919, when Nebraska became the thirty-sixth of the forty-eight states then in the Union to ratify it.

** Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska, killing all 42 on board.

* January 12 – Blizzards ( see: Schoolhouse Blizzard ) hit Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of whom are children on their way home from school.