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Missouri

state of the United States of America

8 dated entries naming Missouri, drawn from 7 separate years between 1820 CE and 1979 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1820March 3 and 6 – The Missouri Compromise becomes law, allowing admission of Missouri and Maine, as slave and free states respectively, as U.S. states.source
  • 1821August 10 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.source
  • 1861October 28 – The Missouri legislature takes up a bill for Missouri's secession from the Union.source
  • 1876Adolphus Busch's brewery, Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis, Missouri, first markets Budweiser, a pale lager, as a nationally sold beer.source
  • 1890Emerson Electric, an American electronics industry giant, is founded in Missouri.source

20th century

  • 1925March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; West Frankfort, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana.source
  • 1979December 31 – Josh Hawley, American politician, U.S. Senator (R-MO) from 2019source
  • 1979June 15 – McDonald's introduces the Happy Meal in the United States in a nationwide advertising campaign after testing the product since February in franchises in the U.S. state of Missouri.source

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