When Harry Wayne Burgoyne was born on 13 April 1890, in Preston, West Virginia, United States, his father, Charles Falen Burgoyne, was 31 and his mother, Mahala Bolyard, was 23. He lived in Cove District, Barbour, West Virginia, United States in 1900. He died on 4 November 1910, in Preston, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 20.
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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.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name for someone from Burgundy (Middle English Burgoin, Old French Bourgogne, Latin Burgundia), a region of eastern France having Dijon as its center. The area was invaded by the Burgundii, an ancient Germanic tribe from whom it takes its name, in about AD 480. The duchy of Burgundy, created in 877 by Charles II, King of the West Franks, was extremely powerful in the later Middle Ages, especially under Philip the Bold (1342–1404, duke from 1363).
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