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

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

Alexander Stephens from Georgia — “ Nebraska is through the House.

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

* 1867 – Nebraska becomes the 37th U. S. state ; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.

Missouri (,,, or, among others ) ( nickname The Show Me State ) is a U. S. state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and 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 ).

* 2004 – The U. S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado ( part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence ) that broke a width record at an astounding wide, which kills one resident.

In the United States, the unicameral legislature of Nebraska is nonpartisan.

* 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.

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.

* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.

The USAF nuclear component was then officially combined with the United States Navy's strategic nuclear component, its Fleet Ballistic Missile ( FBM ) submarines, to form United States Strategic Command ( USSTRATCOM ), which is headquartered at SAC's former complex at Offutt AFB, Nebraska.

Points are awarded both in class competition and in Challenge competition, and an annual champion is crowned each September at the Pro Finale event in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Spam that is sold in North America, South America, and Australia is produced in Austin, Minnesota, ( also known as Spam Town USA ) and in Fremont, Nebraska.

The rest of the United States is the size of the three New York City blocks and is drawn as a square, with a thin brown strip along the Hudson representing " Jersey ", the names of five cities ( Los Angeles ; Washington, D. C .; Las Vegas ; Kansas City ; and Chicago ) and three states ( Texas, Utah, and Nebraska ) scattered among a few rocks for the United States beyond New Jersey.

In Connecticut the affiliate is the Concerned Citizens Party ; in Nebraska the affiliate has recently changed its name from " The Nebraska Party " to " The Nebraska Independent Party ".

** The first claim under the Homestead Act is made, for a farm in Nebraska.

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

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.

About this time, one group of Sac moved into Missouri, and later to Kansas and Nebraska.

Omaha's Old Market ( Omaha, Nebraska ) | Old Market in Downtown Omaha is one of the city's premier destinations.

The Zoo is Nebraska ’ s number one paid attendance attraction and has welcomed more than 25 million visitors over the past 40 years.

The South Platte River ( Arapaho: Niinéniiniicíihéhe ' ) is one of the two principal tributaries of the Platte River and is itself a major river of the American Midwest and the American Southwest / Mountain West, located in the U. S. states of Colorado and Nebraska.

Later, after being fired by the Big 12, Beebe was quoted as saying, " Nebraska was one of the biggest objectors of equal revenue rights, and their president Harvey Perlman said that.

The MIAA is considered one of the top conferences in NCAA Division II, and has seen three member schools move up to NCAA Division I. Southwest Missouri State University ( now called Missouri State University ) made the jump in 1981, Southeast Missouri State University moved up in 1991, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha joined The Summit League in 2012.

Nine of its members are in Minnesota, with three members in South Dakota, two members in North Dakota and one member each in the states of Iowa and Nebraska.

It is one of five Nebraska counties in the eight-county Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Statistical Area .< ref >

It is one of five Nebraska counties in the eight-county Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Statistical Area .< ref >

It is one of five Nebraska counties in the eight-county Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Fillmore is one of 93 counties in Nebraska.

It is one of five Nebraska counties in the eight-county Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is one of five Nebraska counties in the eight-county Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is one of the least populated counties of Nebraska

Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa covers 74 counties including 71 in central and western Iowa, one county in Nebraska, and one and one-half counties in South Dakota.

Prior to the 1997 merger, Young America was known as being one of the two cities where correspondences for consumer product contests went to, the other being Blair, Nebraska.

American Impressionist Painter ( 1849 – 1916 ) Painted one of his masterpieces here entitled " Sunlight and Shadow " which hangs in the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska.

During the 1870s the Commercial Hotel, south of the railroad depot, was one of the largest in Nebraska west of Lincoln.

It is one and one-half hours from the University of Nebraska / Lincoln and University of Nebraska / Kearney ; one-half hour from Hastings College and the Mary Lanning School of Nursing, and 20 minutes from Central Community College in Hastings.

It was also mentioned in the TV Series Jericho, in which one character is sent to the " Nebraska State Patrol Office " in Broken Bow — which is actually located in the real Broken Bow by the rest home off Broadway.