When Richard Lynn Shrewsbury was born on 12 October 1892, in Tustin, Orange, California, United States, his father, Samuel Shrewsbury, was 54 and his mother, Elizabeth Betty Shores, was 38. He married Venla Merrill on 22 August 1923, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in Laguna Beach, Orange, California, United States in 1930 and San Juan Judicial Township, Orange, California, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 22 March 1980, in San Juan Capistrano, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Corona del Mar, Newport Beach, Orange, California, United States.
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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.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
English: habitational name from Shrewsbury (Shropshire), probably from Old English scrobb (genitive scrobbes), a variant of scrubb, scrybb ‘shrub, brushwood’, + burg ‘fortress’.
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