When Nell Nunheimer was born on 4 November 1885, in Evansville, Knight Township, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States, her father, William Nunheimer, was 40 and her mother, Dora Or Dorothy Burchtorf, was 40. She married William E. Thurston on 7 July 1904, in Evansville, Knight Township, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States. She died on 26 September 1914, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Evansville, Knight Township, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Medieval short form of Eleanor , Ellen , and Helen . For the initial N-, compare Nan and Ned . It was the name by which Charles II's mistress Eleanor Gwyn ( 1650–87 ) was universally known to her contemporaries, and at about that time it also became established as an independent name.
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