When Grace McDaniel was born on 15 September 1900, in Billstown, Pike, Arkansas, United States, her father, James Monroe McDaniel, was 39 and her mother, Tennessee Loutisia Warren, was 27. She lived in Lamar, Texas, United States in 1930 and Justice Precinct 1, Lamar, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 22 January 1970, in Texas, United States, at the age of 69.
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Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful "oil boom".
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Irish: altered form of McDonnell , itself an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Domhnaill ‘son of Donal’, from association of the Gaelic patronymic with the Biblical personal name Daniel .
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