Louisiana Tech University started the first program in the U. S. in 2005.

Louisiana Tech University, often referred to as Louisiana Tech, LA Tech, or Tech, is a coeducational public research university in Ruston, Louisiana, United States.

Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier 1 national university by the 2013 U. S. News & World Report college rankings and is the only Tier 1 national university in the nine-member University of Louisiana System.

As a designated space grant college, member of the Southeastern Universities Research Association, member of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, and Carnegie Research University with high research activity ( RU / H ), Louisiana Tech conducts research with ongoing projects funded by agencies such as NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense.

Louisiana Tech is one of only 35 comprehensive research universities in the nation and the only university in Louisiana to be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research by the National Security Agency ( NSA ) and the United States Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ).

Louisiana Tech University opened as The Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana in 1894 during the Second Industrial Revolution.

The Louisiana Polytechnic Institute became desegregated in the 1960s, and officially changed its name to Louisiana Tech University in 1970.

Louisiana Tech enrolled 11, 581 students in five academic colleges during the Fall 2011 academic quarter including 2, 444 students in the graduate school.

In addition to the main campus in Ruston, Louisiana Tech holds classes at the Louisiana Tech University Shreveport Center, Cyber Innovation Center in Bossier City, and Barksdale Air Force Base.

Louisiana Creole ( also called French Créole ) refers to native born people of the New Orleans area who are descended from the Colonial French and / or Spanish settlers of Colonial French Louisiana, before it became part of the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase.

John Reagan of Texas became Postmaster General, and Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana became Attorney General.

Later she became a local teacher in Louisiana and took up residence, with her children, at the home of a wealthy plantation owner.

Effective on October 1, 1804, the purchased territory was organized into the Territory of Orleans ( most of which became the state of Louisiana ) and the District of Louisiana, which was temporarily under the control of the governor and judges of the Indiana Territory.

The land that is now Missouri was acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became known as the Missouri Territory.

When he was a child, his family moved from Atlanta to Charlottesville, Virginia, where he lived during his adolescence, then moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where his father became Dean of Education at Louisiana State University ( LSU ).

Wendell Bird served as a special assistant attorney general for Louisiana in the case and later became a staff attorney for the Institute for Creation Research and Association of Christian Schools International.

" The Republican governor of Louisiana appointed Longstreet the adjutant general of the state militia and by 1872 he became a major general in command of all militia and state police forces within New Orleans.

It became the headquarters of the Missouri History Museum, and stored the Exposition's records and archives when the Louisiana Purchase Exposition company completed its mission.

Anglo-American settlers in the region often were assimilated into Cajun communities, especially those who arrived before the English language became predominant in southern Louisiana.

It became an American classic, and also contributed to a rebirth of Acadian identity in both Maritime Canada and in Louisiana.

When Louisiana became a state in 1812, the remaining territory was renamed Missouri Territory to avoid confusion.

Twenty four states ( Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine ( Maine's new law became effective January 1, 2012 ), Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming ) permit the sale of all or most types of consumer fireworks to residents.

The case led to the first police raid in the United States on an animal laboratory, triggered an amendment in 1985 to the United States Animal Welfare Act, and became the first animal-testing case to be appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which upheld a Louisiana State Court ruling that denied PETA's request for custody of the monkeys.

In 1962, Foster Jay Taylor became the 12th President of the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute.

In 1992, Louisiana Tech became a " selective admissions " university.

* The United States District Court for the District of Orleans was renamed the United States District Court for the District of Louisiana when the Territory of Orleans became the State of Louisiana.

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

In his first and last speech in the Senate, Johnson spoke eloquently in opposition to Grant's military intervention between rival governments in Louisiana, when the gubernatorial election was disputed and Democratic supporters ousted the winning Republican side with armed force in New Orleans.

The first student chapter was founded in 1961 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

* French group, under which they also included the countries that codified their law either in 19th or in the first half of the 20th century, using the Napoleonic code civil of year 1804 as a model ; this includes countries and jurisdictions such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, Louisiana, states of South America ( such as Brazil ), Quebec, Santa Lucia, Romania, the Ionian Islands, Egypt, and Lebanon

* 1872 – In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U. S. state.

Map of the Louisiana PurchaseThe first Europeans to settle the Gulf Coast were primarily the French and the Spanish.

The Louisiana Purchase and the Texas Revolution made the Gulf Coast a part of the United States during the first half of the 19th century.

The film was a huge success in American theaters, earning $ 383, 744 in its first three days in Texas and Louisiana alone.

In 1908, the first natural gas pipeline was constructed to transport gas from Caddo-Pine Island to Shreveport, Louisiana.

His birthday, June 3, is celebrated in Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee ; in Alabama, it is celebrated on the first Monday in June.

After the signing of the Louisiana Purchase agreement in 1803, Livingston made this famous statement, " We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives ... From this day the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank.

In this group, the explorer Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz may be the first historian of Louisiana with his Histoire de la Louisiane ( 3 vols., Paris, 1758 ; 2 vols., London, 1763 )

One 1941 property from the Waco, Texas-based Alamo Plaza Courts chain, the first US motel chain ( founded 1929, expansion stopped with the departure of the chain's founders in the 1950s ), still stands on U. S. Route 190 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but has been declining steadily since a change of ownership in the mid-1980s.

The Saints were forced to play their first scheduled home game against the New York Giants at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey ( the Giants ' home stadium ); other home games were rescheduled at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas or Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

On September 19, Saints owner Tom Benson announced that the team had sold out the Louisiana Superdome for the entire season with season tickets alone ( 70, 001 seats ), a first in franchise history.

* 1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.

Reports of Passenger Pigeon sightings kept coming in from Arkansas and Louisiana, in groups of tens and twenties, until the first decade of the 20th century.

Among those drilling at Spindletop was W. Scott Heywood, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, who in 1901 made the first oil discovery in nearby Jeff Davis Parish in southwestern Louisiana.

* 1965 – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $ 1. 42 billion ($ 10 – 12 billion in 2005 dollars ) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $ 1 billion in unadjusted damages.

In 1992, he was assigned to Fort Monroe, Virginia as the first Director, Louisiana Maneuvers Task Force, Office of Chief of Staff of the Army, a position held until 1994 when he was reassigned to South Korea as the CJG3 of Combined Forces Command and U. S. Forces Korea.

However, Steve Forbes finished first in Delaware and Arizona while paleoconservative firebrand Pat Buchanan managed early victories in Alaska and Louisiana, in addition to a strong second place in the Iowa caucuses and a surprising victory in the small but key New Hampshire primary.

* November 7 – U. S. presidential election, 1848: Whig Zachary Taylor of Louisiana defeats Democrat Lewis Cass of Michigan in the first US presidential election held in every state on the same day.

* February 24 – The first parade to have floats occurs at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana.

* March 7 – Jacques Villeré, first Creole governor of Louisiana ( b. 1761 )