When Harold Edward Hatcher was born on 8 December 1940, in Nebraska, United States, his father, Hugh Sherman Hatcher, was 17 and his mother, Evelyn Lois Cadwalader, was 17. He died on 27 January 1990, in Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 49.
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
The Flood Control Act of 1944 was passed and would later be called the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program. It was named after the authors of the program Lewis A. Pick and William Glenn Sloan. It began as two separate plans but they both had the idea for an irrigation system that would help with the flooding of the Missouri River.
The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
English (southern): topographic name for someone who lived by a gate, from Middle English haccher(e), a derivative of hacche ‘gate’. This normally denoted a gate marking the entrance to a forest or other enclosed piece of land, sometimes a floodgate or sluice-gate. Compare Hatch .
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