* 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 Cobain's death, the band pushed forward to prepare for a tour to promote the album, but it came to a halt when bassist Kristen Pfaff died that June of an apparent heroin overdose.

In spite of an initially cool, if not outright hostile reception, the Saints and their Major League neighbor ( less than 10 miles away ) have worked together for several years to promote the sport of baseball.

His M69 armor vest is unsecured, and worn fully open at the front, which was a typical fashion of troops in Vietnam, as a measure in which to promote ventilation ( in spite of reducing the vest's overall protective levels ).

In spite of these objections to pro wrestling, Rickard and McMahon did promote boxing matches like the December 11, 1925, light-heavyweight championship match between Jack Delaney and Paul Berlenbach.

Of the handful of groups not taken down by disco's fall from favor, The Jacksons — and Michael Jackson in particular — stand out: In spite of having helped define the disco sound early on, they continued to make popular and danceable, if more refined, songs for yet another generation of music fans in the 1980s and beyond.

This time there was no soundtrack album in spite of the importance of music in the film as the film's writer, director and star Tim Robbins was concerned that the politically right wing content would be taken seriously and used by right wing politicians.

In spite of his enormous output of operas, today he is most noted for his instrumental music, especially his oboe concertos.

However, in spite of its initial short term success and critical reaction, as represented by a review in La Gazzetta privilegiata which stated that " A new masterwork has been added to Italian music ..... Belisario not only pleased and delighted, but also conquered, enflamed and ravished the full auditorium ", in the long run, had " Donizetti poured music of the calibre of his Lucia di Lammermoor into the score of Belisario the shortcomings of its wayward plot and dramatic structure would matter less ".

In spite of Whiteman's nickname, " The King of Jazz ," his was not a jazz ensemble, but a popular music outfit that played bits of jazz and classical music according to the demands of its record-buying and concert-going audience.

Certainly it is common for works of classical music to be admired in spite of, rather than because of, their libretti.

In spite of this epiphany, Mussorgsky's music still leaned more toward foreign models ; a four-hand piano sonata which he produced in 1860 contains his only movement in sonata form.

Pierre Bourdieu, for instance, argued that in spite the apparent freedom of choice in the arts, people's artistic preferences ( such as classical music, rock, traditional music ) strongly tie in with their social position.

In spite of this, members of Eddie Palmieri's Conjunto la Perfecta did hear this new music over shortwave radio, inspiring them to create a similar rhythm which they also called mozambique.

In spite of encouraging reviews, Delius's orchestral music was not heard again in an English concert hall until 1907.

In a review of a Whiteman jazz concert in New York, one writer said the music was expected to be pleasing, and " it proved so when it was repeated last night, in spite of the excessive instrumentation of Ferde Grofé.

In spite of his fame as a music theorist, Rameau had trouble finding a post as an organist in Paris.

German swing bands, virtually unknown to British and American swing band followers, thrived in the early 1940s in spite of an official Nazi campaign against " decadent Western music ".

The popularity of revival singers and the openness of rural churches to this type of music ( in spite of its initial use in city revivals ) led to the late 19th and early 20th century establishment of gospel music publishing houses such as those of Homer Rodeheaver, E. O. Excell, Charlie Tillman, and Charles Tindley.

In spite of their success as a touring group and on the R & B charts, the group had been considering quitting the music industry in 1972 ; around that same time original members Bill Isles and Bobby Massey departed, leaving the group a trio.

In spite of Turtle Soups positive reception from the music press, its commercial success was marginal and the band soon began to disintegrate.

Also very well known artists with a status of a " classic ", J. Karjalainen and Pauli Hanhiniemi have in their contemporary production gone to the direction of folk-music although this music has in spite of being recognized by critics, been left unnoticed by the larger public.

In spite of the changes, merengue remained the most popular form of music in the Dominican Republic.

Though the Roma are primarily known as the performers of Hungarian styles like verbunkos, they have their own form of folk music that is largely without instrumentation, in spite of their reputation in that field outside of the Roma community.

Irmin Schmidt stated in a discussion with Michael Karoli in 1996 concerning the various citations of influences upon their music: " You know, it's funny that in spite of all the supposed influences on us that have been written about, the one overriding influence has never been mentioned: Michael von Biel ".

* There was a Brazilian progressive rock group ( 1974 – 1979 ) called Vímana ( stress on the first syllable ) that, in spite of achieving little success, is particularly interesting because three of its former members later became music stars in Brazil: Lobão ( drummer ), Ritchie ( bassist ), Lulu Santos ( guitarist / vocalist ).