When World War I began he immediately requested an overseas assignment but was again denied and then assigned to Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

When the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).

When the first counties were created by the Kansas legislature in 1855, the territory within the present limits of the county was attached to Riley County for all revenue and judicial purposes.

When Kansas was admitted to the Union as a state in 1861, the Osage Indian reservation occupied a large tract of land near the southern border.

When the Standard Oil Trust was broken up in 1911, Indiana Standard was assigned marketing territory covering most of the Midwestern United States, including Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri.

When the characters Dean Moriarty, Marylou and Ed Dunkel leave Denver, Kerouac writes that they " roared east along Colfax and out to the Kansas plains " — this was before the construction of Interstate 70.

When the Supreme Court issued its decision in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 347 US 483 ( 1954 ), Eastland, like most Southern Democrats, denounced it.

When the county was formed, Westville was identified as the county seat, due partly to its location at the intersection of two major railroads: the Kansas City Southern Railway and the St. Louis – San Francisco Railway.

When hardy Winter wheat was introduced to Kansas by Russian settlers, it eventually became the predominant crop in Smith County.

When the county was originally formed in 1855, it was bounded by the Kansas River on the north, and the southern boundary was nine miles ( 14 km ) further south.

When Kansas Territory was incorporated in 1854 due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was essentially repealed.

When Kansas and Colorado fall out over the waters in the Arkansas River, they don't go to war over it ; they go to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the matter is settled in a just and honorable way.

When Shabbona was in Kansas visiting relatives, his land was appropriated.

When the Chicago and Alton Railroad connected with the Kansas City branch at Roodhouse, Hillview was a lumber camp called Happy Ville.

When the Kansas territory was first mapped, the original Andover area was called Minneha.

When she moved to Kansas City, the still-married Robinson gave her an engagement ring and brought her to the county registrar where they paid for a marriage license that was never picked up.

When Adair County was formed in 1907, Westville was identified as the county seat, due partly to its location at the intersection of two major railroads: the Kansas City Southern Railway and the St. Louis – San Francisco Railway.

When Adair County was formed in 1907, Westville was identified as the county seat, due partly to its location at the intersection of two major railroads: the Kansas City Southern Railway and the St. Louis – San Francisco Railway.

When the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway built a line through the Choctaw Nation in 1872, the community of Cale was established on the east side of the tracks.

When Wells began to prosper as a result of the Kansas and Gulf Short Line Railroad reaching the town in 1885, the Mt.

When the North Galveston, Houston and Kansas City Railroad was built through the area in 1893 the town began to develop as a commercial center.

When Niskanen died, Charles and David Koch filed suit in Kansas, seeking to void his shareholder seat.

On April 22, 2008, the BBC Radio 1 Rockshow broadcast a new session of Down recordings featuring alternate versions of " NOD ", " Beneath the Tides ", and " Jail ", along with a cover of " When The Levee Breaks " ( written by Kansas Joe McCoy and his wife Memphis Minnie, and famously covered by Led Zeppelin ).

When Capote learned of the quadruple murder, before the killers were captured, he decided to travel to Kansas and write about the crime.

When South America became attached to North America creating the Isthmus of Panama, the Arctic region cooled due to the strengthening of the Humboldt and Gulf Stream currents, eventually leading to the glaciations of the Pleistocene ice age, the current interglacial of which is the Holocene Epoch.

When Pakistan clamped down in 2003 on the types of goods permitted duty-free transit, and introducing stringent measures and labels to prevent such practices, re-routing of goods through Iran from the Persian Gulf increased significantly.

When Saddam Hussein failed to comply with this demand, the Gulf War ( Operation " Desert Storm ") ensued on January 17, 1991.

When Gulf + Western became Paramount Communications, and continuing until 2002, the Paramount logo would appear first followed by the underline and the byline beneath it.

When the Portuguese turned their attention to the Persian Gulf, Piri Reis occupied the Qatar peninsula and the island of Bahrain to deprive the Portuguese of suitable bases on the Arabian coast.

When he refused to support the Ottoman Vali ( Governor ) of Basra, Kubad Pasha, in another campaign against the Portuguese in the northern Persian Gulf, Piri Reis was publicly beheaded in 1554 or 1555.

When the rebellious helots were finally forced to surrender and permitted to evacuate the country, the Athenians settled them at the strategic city of Naupactus on the Corinthian Gulf.

When the U. K. announced a policy in 1968 ( reaffirmed in March 1971 ) of ending the treaty relationships with the Persian Gulf sheikdoms, Qatar joined the other eight states then under British protection ( the seven trucial sheikdoms — the present United Arab Emirates -- and Bahrain ) in a plan to form a union of Arab emirates.

When historical events are involved in their biography, overt retcons may be used to accommodate this ; a character who served in the army during World War II might have his service record retconned to place him in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, etc.

When questioned about which episode in their career they most regretted, none of the other candidates would answer the question, except Anderson, who cited his vote for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.

When the Argo was driven ashore in the Gulf of Syrtes Minor, the crew carried the vessel to the " Tritonian Lake ", Lake Tritonis, whence Triton, the local deity euhemeristically rationalized by Diodorus Siculus as " then ruler over Libya ", welcomed them with a guest-gift of a clod of earth and guided them through the lake's marshy outlet back to the Mediterranean.

When Cortés returned to the Gulf coast to deal with the newly arrived hostile expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez, Alvarado remained in Tenochtitlan as commander of the Spanish enclave, with strict orders to make sure that Moctezuma not be permitted to escape.

When the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad reaches Temple in 1880, the village starts to die as citizens move closer to the train station.

When Featherstone Osler and his bride ( Ellen Free Picton ) arrived in Canada they were nearly ship-wrecked again on Egg Island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, it cited Iraq's non-compliance with the terms of cease-fire agreement for the 1990-1991 Gulf War, as well as planning in 1993 attempted assassination of former President George H. W. Bush and firing on coalition aircraft enforcing the no-fly zones as its stated.

When the studio showed a list of their purchased scripts to Russell, the one-sentence description of Spoils of War, " heist set in the Gulf War ", appealed to him.

When the Qajar dynasty replaced the Zand dynasty, they gain less control on the region of the Persian Gulf, so the British influence in the region increased gradually.

When compared with the deployment of forces prior to the Gulf War things proceeded a great deal faster, with the slowest deploying elements taking 10 weeks to get from base to combat readiness in the theatre.

When President George H. W. Bush traveled to Raytheon's Patriot manufacturing plant in Andover, Massachusetts during the Gulf War, he declared, the "" Patriot is 41 for 42: 42 Scuds engaged, 41 intercepted!

When Eudoxus was returning from his second voyage to India the wind forced him south of the Gulf of Aden and down the coast of Africa for some distance.

When the Spaniards arrived, the Aztec Empire reached much of Mesoamerica, touching both the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean.

When Christopher Columbus for the first time visited the island in 1494, he named the bay Golfo de Buen Tiempo (' Fair Weather Gulf ').

When a nor ' easter starts forming in the Gulf of Mexico, moist air and high dew points feed into the developing storm.