{"slug": "arkansas", "label": "Arkansas", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1612", "qid": "Q1612", "description": "state of the United States of America", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [1673, 1992], "span_label": ["1673 CE", "1992 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "france", "label": "France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mississippi-river", "label": "Mississippi River", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-states-senate", "label": "United States Senate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "african-americans", "label": "African Americans", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bill-clinton", "label": "Bill Clinton", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "george-h-w-bush", "label": "George H. W. Bush", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1673, "year_label": "1673 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 17", "text": "June 17 – French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet reach the headwaters of the Mississippi River, and descend to Arkansas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992268#April–June", "title": "1673", "revid": 1365992268, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1836, "year_label": "1836 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 – Arkansas is admitted into as the 25th state of the United States of America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368342504#April–June", "title": "1836", "revid": 1368342504, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1919, "year_label": "1919 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 30", "text": "September 30 – Elaine massacre: An estimated 100 to 800 African Americans are killed in Elaine, Arkansas, by white mobs and vigilante militias assisted by federal troops in \"the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the United States\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373508849#September", "title": "1919", "revid": 1373508849, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1932, "year_label": "1932 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 12", "text": "January 12 – Hattie W. Caraway of Arkansas becomes the first woman to be elected to the United States Senate, succeeding her late husband, Thaddeus Caraway, in a special election,", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370718676#January", "title": "1932", "revid": 1370718676, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "August 9", "text": "August 9 – An explosion at an Arkansas missile plant kills 53.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#July–August", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › July–August"}}, {"year": 1992, "year_label": "1992 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "July 16", "text": "July 16 – At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton accepts his party's presidential nomination on behalf of the \"forgotten middle class\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368521010#July", "title": "1992", "revid": 1368521010, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1992, "year_label": "1992 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 3", "text": "November 3 – In the 1992 United States presidential election, Democratic Arkansas governor Bill Clinton defeats Republican president George H. W. Bush and Independent Ross Perot.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368521010#November", "title": "1992", "revid": 1368521010, "section": "Events › November"}}]}