* 1911 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners in spite of rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.

But in spite of the best efforts of Atchison and the Ruffians, Kansas did reject slavery and finally became a free state in 1861.

" He acknowledged that, in spite of his efforts — in TV programs such as Dancing: A Man's Game ( 1958 ) for example — the situation changed little over the years.

Most of his political measures, indeed, stood the test of experience, but in ecclesiastico-political matters he witnessed with sorrow the gradual decline of Catholicism and the spread of Lutheranism within his dominions, in spite of his earnest efforts and forcible prohibition of the new doctrine.

In spite of concerted efforts to uphold the statute, it eventually failed due to competition among landowners for labour.

But in spite of all the efforts of the Antiochene party, the representatives of the envoys whom the council was eventually allowed to send, with the legate Philip, to the Court, persuaded the emperor to accept Cyril's council as the true one.

In spite of the efforts of his Jacobin friends to save him, Babeuf was arrested, tried, and convicted for his role in the Conspiracy of the Equals.

In December 1866, the last of the French troops departed from Rome, in spite of the efforts of the pope to retain them.

He then escapes, in spite of the efforts of John's men.

In spite of her strenuous efforts to avoid publicity, Garbo paradoxically became one of the twentieth-century's most publicized women in the world.

Over the following 60 years or so, he was involved in many of the major military conflicts of the 19th century — always in spite of his best efforts to evade his duty.

In spite of these reverses, Irene's military efforts met with some success: in 782 her favoured courtier Staurakios subdued the Slavs of the Balkans and laid the foundations of Byzantine expansion and re-Hellenization in the area.

During Henry's reign, Protestantism became an important minority religion in France, in spite of his efforts to suppress it.

In spite of their joint efforts Rangi and Papa remain close together in their loving embrace.

In spite of the efforts of the engineer Ignaz Venetz to drain the growing lake, the ice dam collapsed catastrophically in June 1818.

In 1980, he described New Zealand as a country living on borrowed money, unable in spite of the record efforts of its exporters to pay its own way in the world.

In spite of their efforts, the fort only lasted a few years.

In spite of village board efforts, " progress " has resulted in higher density developments surrounding Kildeer while it remains an island of rural countryside.

In spite of Hitler's discouraging reserve, she did not abandon her efforts through all those years ".

In spite of Schmutzer's efforts, Cocke County continued to struggle with organized crime.

In spite of massive efforts to help the survivors with food and medical treatment, led by Brigadier Glyn Hughes, Deputy Director of Medical Services of 2nd Army, about another 9, 000 died in April, and by the end of June 1945 another 4, 000 had died ( after liberation a total of 13, 994 people died ).

In spite of tireless efforts to arrange funding no branch of the military was interested, as he later noted, " The Navy said it was a plane not a boat ; the Air Force said it was a boat not a plane ; and the Army were ' plain not interested '".

In 1691 he was received into the French Academy in spite of the determined efforts of the partisans of the " ancients ", especially Racine and Boileau, who on four previous occasions had ensured his rejection.

In spite of Blueprint's great lead-it was running when MSDA was still a paper project-Lotus eventually joined the MSDA efforts as it became clear that SQL would become the de-facto database standard.

In spite of their best efforts, the wide electron beams simply could not focus tightly enough to hit the individual dots, at least over the entirety of the screen.

In spite of some successes, the Catalans were unable to secure lasting gains.

Constantine's rule, however, validated Diocletian's achievements and the autocratic principle he represented: the borders remained secure, in spite of Constantine's large expenditure of forces during his civil wars ; the bureaucratic transformation of Roman government was completed ; and Constantine took Diocletian's court ceremonies and made them even more extravagant.

In spite of the injury, and being targeted by the Leeds forwards, he made crucial saves throughout the match, denying both Peter Lorimer and Terry Cooper, and resisted more pressure from Leeds after Chelsea had taken the lead in extra time to help secure a 2 – 1 win.

Llorente, however, failed to secure such a deal and remained an Athletic player at the close of the transfer window, in spite of the bad blood which had developed between him and the club management over the situation.

In spite of his undoubted wit and social gifts, Morny failed to secure the distinction he desired as a dramatist, and none of his pieces, which appeared under the pseudonym of M. de St Rémy, including Sur la grande route, M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le.

In spite of his claims Quérard was unable to secure a position in any of the public libraries.

At Vienna, in spite of the powerful backing of Alexander of Russia, he failed to secure the annexation of the whole of Saxony to Prussia ; at Paris, after Waterloo, he failed to carry through his views as to the further dismemberment of France ; he had weakly allowed Metternich to forestall him in making terms with the states of the Confederation of the Rhine, which secured to Austria the preponderance in the German federal diet ; on the eve of the conference of Carlsbad ( 1819 ) he signed a convention with Metternich, by which — to quote the historian Treitschke — “ like a penitent sinner, without any formal quid pro quo, the monarchy of Frederick the Great yielded to a foreign power a voice in her internal affairs .”

This is because, in practice, in spite of the serious flaws described above, web sites secured by public key certificates are still more secure than unsecured http :// web sites.

In spite of this Peter's manager says they will look to secure other big fights in the division against anyone other than the Klitschko brothers.

In spite of numerous attacks of his 400-man army on Wittenberg he fails to secure the Junker.

Now signed to The Groundhogs ' management company, Egg finished the year with an increased touring schedule, but in spite of accumulating enough material for a third album, were unable to secure another record deal, and called it a day in July 1972.

Kerney hired a lawyer for Ryan, ( Jaime Michel de Champourcin, paid for by the Irish government ), but in spite of all his efforts, he could not secure Ryan's release.

The Constitution of 1864 which abolished slavery in the State and disenfranchised those who fought for or aided the Confederacy was only ratified by the vote of the soldiers in spite of Bradford ’ s efforts to secure its adoption.

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

Numerianus ' generals and tribunes called a council for the succession, and chose Diocles as Emperor, in spite of Aper's attempts to garner support.

In spite of the loving support of the series by its fans, the program had never been a favorite of television critics or members of the more high brow society.

Because there seems to be no acceptable alternative available, political support for the much troubled TBS-system remains, in spite of the controversy.

Although it debuted at No. 4, and in spite of a live performance at the American Music Awards, the album was a commercial failure, due in part to the band's label's lack of support.

Neil Kinnock's showing in the opinion polls dipped ; before Thatcher's resignation, Labour had been up to 10 points ahead of the Tories in the opinion polls ( an Ipsos MORI poll in April 1990 had actually shown Labour more than 20 points ahead of the Tories ), but many opinion polls were actually showing the Tories with more support than Labour, in spite of the deepening recession.

The support given to him by the church in spite of his excommunication was of great political importance.

The early Spectrum models ' great success as a games platform came in spite of its lack of built-in joystick ports, primitive sound generation, and colour support that was optimised for text display: the hardware limitations of the platform required a particular level of creativity from video game designers.

After the initial campaign of 1994 – 1995, culminating in the devastating Battle of Grozny, Russian federal forces attempted to seize control of the mountainous area of Chechnya but were set back by Chechen guerrilla warfare and raids on the flatlands in spite of Russia's overwhelming manpower, weaponry, and air support.

In spite of these criticisms, federal government support has made abstinence the de facto focus of sex education in the United States, so that opponents frequently adopt the line that abstinence education is acceptable only if it is combined with other methods, such as instruction in the use of condoms, and easy availability thereof.

She is now living well again as her son, the new baronet, has agreed to financially support her ( in spite of her past neglect and indifference towards him ).

All this would have been impossible without the steady support of Elizabeth who trusted him completely in spite of the Chancellor's many enemies, most of whom were her personal friends.

In spite of this ' official ' name, the office was a purely private enterprise of Sebert, but he tried to reach support from the national associations.

In 1042 Harthacnut died while in England, and Magnus also became King of Denmark, in spite of a claim by Cnut's nephew Sweyn Estridsen, whom Harthacnut had left in control of Denmark when he went to England, and who had some support.

The struggle ended with the Battle of Poimanenos in 1224, in which his opponents were defeated in spite of the support they had acquired from the Latin Empire of Constantinople.

Numerian's generals and tribunes called a council for the succession, and chose Diocles, commander of the cavalry arm of the imperial bodyguard, emperor, in spite of Aper's attempts to garner support.

In spite of a GM unwritten edict against engines larger than 330 ci in intermediate cars, DeLorean ( with support from Jim Wangers from Pontiac's ad agency ), came up with the idea to offer the GTO as a dealer option package that included a 389 ci engine rated at 325 or.

One peculiarity of ADB was that it in spite of being electrically unsafe for hot-swapping on all but a few machines, it had all of the basic capabilities needed for hot-swapping implemented in its software and support hardware.

She was born Marcelle Taillefesse at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France, but as a young woman she changed her last name to " Tailleferre " to spite her father, who had refused to support her musical studies.

In spite of that significant support, it won no seats in the provincial legislature-a fact which has been cited as an argument against the first-past-the-post system used in BC elections.

In spite of the makeover and strong material led by Simmons ' now trademark " Dangerous " ( featured in the Brian Bosworth biker film vehicle, Stone Cold ), Brotherhood was unsuccessful, in part due to a lack of support on the part of Capitol Records.

In the economic argument of exchange rate regimes ( one of the most divisive issues among economists ), the Journal has a tendency to support fixed exchange rates over floating exchange rates in spite of its support for the free market in other respects.

Portugal flirted with the French at first, but the British offered to support Portugal's claim to the entire Congo in return for a free trade agreement and to spite their French rivals.

At the death of Colbert, François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, Colbert's enemy, who succeeded as superintendent in the department of public works, showed no favour to Le Brun who was Colbert's favorite, and in spite of the king's continued support Le Brun felt a bitter change in his position.