He returned to politics to oppose the pro-slavery Kansas – Nebraska Act ( 1854 ); this law repealed the slavery-restricting Missouri Compromise ( 1820 ).

The Whigs had been irreparably split by the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

* 1943 – Bob Kerrey, American politician, 35th Governor of Nebraska

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

The state legislature had passed resolutions instructing their representatives in Washington to support pro-slavery and popular sovereignty measures such as the LeCompton Constitution and the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

* Nebraska – March 1, 1867

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

Final Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1972 – 2008 ( University of Nebraska Press, 2010 ) 344 pp. ISBN 978-0-8032-5965-2

Janssen was born as David Harold Meyer in Naponee, Nebraska to Harold Edward Meyer, a banker ( May 12, 1906 – November 4, 1990 ) and Berniece Graf ( May 11, 1910 – November 26, 1995 ).

* 2007 – Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.

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.

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The Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854 () created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.

The initial purpose of the Kansas – Nebraska Act was to open up many thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad.

The house leadership then began a series of roll call votes in which legislation ahead of the Kansas – Nebraska Act was called to the floor and tabled without debate.

Sen. Stephen A. Douglas and former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln aired their disagreement over the Kansas – Nebraska Act in three public speeches during September and October 1854.

The Kansas – Nebraska Act divided the nation and pointed it toward civil war.

simple: Kansas – Nebraska Act

* The complete text of the Lewis and Clark Journals online, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

* Full text of the Lewis and Clark journals online – edited by Gary E. Moulton, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

*** Territory of Nebraska, 1854 – 1867

* Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948 – 91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002, ISBN 0-8032-3733-2

to the SAC command and control post, forty-five feet below the ground at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska ; ;

* Aquila Court Building of Omaha, Nebraska

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.

Jeremy Baguyos ( University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA )

* Omaha, Nebraska

The Union Pacific-Central Pacific ( Southern Pacific ) mainline followed the historic Overland Route from Omaha, Nebraska to San Francisco Bay.

The expedition followed the Missouri through what is now Kansas City, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska.

The original handwritten proclamation signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison, that informed the American public of the landmark deal of the Louisiana Purchase, was acquired in 1996 by Walter Scott Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska, who holds it in his private collection.

Marlon Brando was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Marlon Brando, Sr., a pesticide and chemical feed manufacturer, and his wife, Dorothy Julia ( née Pennebaker ).

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* Mal Madrigal, band from Omaha, Nebraska

* 1994, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, United States

( 1980 ) 29 Years to Oblivion, The Last Years of Railway Mail Service in the United States, Mobile Post Office Society, Omaha, Nebraska.

These events also targeted individuals, as in the 1891 mob lynching of Joe Coe, a worker in Omaha, Nebraska.

* 1909: Greek Town, a successful Greek immigrant community in South Omaha, Nebraska is burnt to the ground and its residents are forced to leave town.

** 1919: Omaha, Nebraska

* Timeline of riots and civil unrest in Omaha, Nebraska

Van C. Smith, a businessman from Omaha, Nebraska, and his partner, Aaron Wilburn, constructed two adobe buildings in 1869 that began what is now Roswell.

* 1919 – Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.

In the experiment, Milgram sent several packages to 160 random people living in Omaha, Nebraska, asking them to forward the package to a friend or acquaintance who they thought would bring the package closer to a set final individual, a stockbroker from Boston, Massachusetts.

** In Omaha, Nebraska, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U. S. presidential election, the Republican vice presidential nominee, Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960.

* May 3 – The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, Nebraska.