Major mines and mining areas in the outback include opals at Coober Pedy, Lightning Ridge and White Cliffs, metals at Broken Hill, Tennant Creek, Olympic Dam and the remote Challenger Mine.

* 1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.

Portrait of Major Ridge in 1834, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America.

The Cherokee allied with the U. S. against the nativist and pro-British Red Stick faction of the Upper Creek in the Creek War during the War of 1812, and Cherokee warriors led by Major Ridge played a major role in General Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

The two-tiered legislature was led by Major Ridge and his son John Ridge.

Led by Major Ridge, John Ridge and Elias Boudinot, they represented the Cherokee elite, whose homes, plantations and businesses were confiscated, or under threat of being taken by white squatters with Georgia land-titles.

On June 22, 1839, a party of twenty-five Ross supporters assassinated Major Ridge, John Ridge and Elias Boudinot.

When signing the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 Major Ridge said " I have signed my death warrant.

" The resulting political turmoil led to the killings of Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot ; of the leaders of the Treaty Party, only Stand Watie escaped death.

Major geographical features nearby include Mount Burdell to the north and Big Rock Ridge to the southwest.

Major north-south roads are Hoyt Street, Hollow Tree Ridge Road, Nearwater Lane, Noroton Avenue, Middlesex Road, Mansfield Avenue and Brookside Road.

* Chieftains Museum ( Major Ridge Home ), Cherokee museum in Rome, Georgia.

In early 1862, Union Major General Samuel R. Curtis had successfully invaded northwest Arkansas and defeated Confederate forces at the Battle of Pea Ridge.

* Major freight yards were at South Boston, Taunton, Fall River, New Bedford, Providence, Worcester, Springfield, Hartford, Waterbury, New Haven ( the major Cedar Hill hump classification yard ), Maybrook ( another hump yard and interchange point for western connections ), New York Harlem River and New York Bay Ridge ( where interchange was made with the Pennsylvania and other railroads in New Jersey, via barge ( car float )).

In Rome, Ross established a ferry along the headwaters of the Coosa River close to the home of Major Ridge, an older wealthy and influential Cherokee leader.

On May 29, 1834, Ross received word from John H. Eaton, that a new delegation, including Major Ridge, John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Ross ' younger brother Andrew, collectively called the " Ridge Party " or " Treaty Party ", had arrived in Washington with the goal of signing a treaty of removal.

Considering the giving of the common lands a capital crime, opponents of the treaty assassinated Boudinot, Major Ridge and John Ridge after the migration to Indian Territory.

The club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).

The modern meaning of the flag was forged in December 1860 when Major Robert Anderson, acting without orders, moved the U. S. garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, in defiance of the power of the new Confederate States of America.

When the original Washington Senators moved to Minnesota in 1960 as the Twins, Major League Baseball decided to expand a year earlier than planned to stave off threats of losing its exemption from the Sherman Antitrust Act.

( Montreal's Major League Baseball team, which played from 1969 until it moved to Washington, D. C. in December 2004, was named the Expos, in honor of the 1967 fair ).

" Major record labels signed most of the prominent grunge bands in Seattle, while a second influx of bands moved to the city in hopes of success.

While Verne Lundquist replaced Summerall on games with lead analyst John Madden, Buck ( who was at the time the network's lead Major League Baseball announcer ) filled in for Lundquist, teaming with Dan Fouts to call two games ( both of which coincidentally featured the Cardinals, who had moved from St. Louis to Arizona by that time ).

At the beginning of the 2007 Major League Baseball season, Ryan Freel took over center field for the Reds, and Griffey Jr. was moved to right field.

During the 1990s several teams changed cities as Major League Baseball placed higher standards on minor league baseball facilities ; franchises in smaller cities were sold to new owners who moved those teams to new ballparks in larger cities.

A Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team was also named after him, the Rocket de Montréal, playing out of the Maurice Richard Arena ( in 2003 this team moved to Prince Edward Island becoming the P. E. I.

In, Campanella moved into the Brooklyn Dodgers ' minor league system, as the Dodger organization began preparations to break the Major Leagues ' color barrier with Jackie Robinson.

The Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball both moved to the city of Phoenix, Arizona in 2009 for spring training and share a facility, known as Camelback Ranch-Glendale, which is in Phoenix but owned and operated by the City of Glendale.

Due to Major Orlando P. Rooks poor health, and already considering a move, he had his wife, Josephine, moved to Fruitland Park.

* Ryan Vogelsong played baseball for Kutztown University, moved on to Major League Baseball and is now playing for the San Francisco Giants

It is named for Major Elias Buel ( in some references ' Buell ') who moved to Vermont from Coventry, Connecticut.

Ground was broken in for the new home of Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants, who had moved west from New York following the end of the 1957 season.

In 1986, he moved to the Treasury, first as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, then Chief Secretary to the Treasury ( succeeding John Major in the latter job on Major's promotion to Foreign Secretary in July 1989 ) under Chancellor Nigel Lawson, whom he tried unsuccessfully to persuade not to resign from the government on the morning of 26 October 1989 – Lawson resigned that evening.

* September 29 – Major League Baseball announces that the Montreal Expos will be moved to the Washington, D. C. area for the 2005 season.

In the wake of the battle, Greene moved into South Carolina, while Cornwallis chose to march into Virginia and attempt to link up with roughly 3500 men under British Major General Phillips and American turncoat Benedict Arnold.

When he moved to Melbourne in 1934, he transferred to command of the 15th Infantry Brigade, then part of the 3rd Division under Major General Sir Thomas Blamey.

The Major retired from his army career and his family moved to Dummer Down Farm which he inherited upon his father's death.

Major moved to Admiralty House while repairs were completed.

Major local firms include the Distribution centre of publisher HarperCollins, located in the Westerhill area of Bishopbriggs, currently employing some 340 people, William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd originally moved there from Townhead in the early 1970s.

Major bands from this era included Beatrice, who had moved from disco to punk and folk-influenced rock and were known for their splashy, uncensored and theatrical performances, P. Mobil, Bikini, Hobo Blues Band, a bluesy duo, A. E. Bizottság, Európa Kiadó, Sziámi and Edda művek.

Major employers include Siemens, which moved its UK headquarters to the area in 2007, Burlington Group who moved into Watchmoor Park in 2009 and, until 2010, Sun Microsystems, whose UK headquarters was located just across the Hampshire border in Minley next to the M3 motorway at junction 4a, before the takeoverby Oracle and subsequent move to Thames Valley Park in Reading.