When Franklin Monroe Buchanan was born on 5 September 1904, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, his father, James Alfred Buchanan, was 22 and his mother, Lucy Maud Bruno, was 19. He married Alberta Beatrice Harshbarger on 3 July 1926, in Denver, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Representative District 6, Kaua'i, Hawaii, United States in 1940 and Ontario, San Bernardino, California, United States for about 1 years. He died on 9 May 1984, in San Pedro, Paraguay, at the age of 79.
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The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Scottish (western Scotland): habitational name from Buchanan in Stirlingshire, perhaps named with Gaelic buth chanain ‘house of the canon’.
Irish: adopted for Ó Buadhachanáin, see Bohannon .
History: This is the name of a Scottish clan associated with lands on the eastern shores of Loch Lomond and in the Lennox. — The name Buchanan was brought independently to North America from Scotland by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. George Buchanan came to MD in 1698. — James Buchanan (1791–1868), 15th President of the US (1857–61), was born near Mercersburg, PA, the son of a successful land speculator and store keeper, who had emigrated to PA from Scotland in 1783.
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