When Lila Genavive Gunderson was born on 9 November 1894, in Minnesota, United States, her father, Andrew Gunderson, was 31 and her mother, Anna Matilda Bjerke, was 32. She lived in Kampala, Central, Uganda in 1935 and Homer, Stutsman, North Dakota, United States in 1940. She died on 28 December 1945, at the age of 51, and was buried in Jamestown State Hospital Cemetery, Jamestown, Stutsman, North Dakota, 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 Swedish man, Olof Ohman, was farming on his land when he came across a 202-pound rock slab that had strange writing on it. Convinced it was proof that Scandinavian explorers came to that area before Columbus found the Americas, he had it looked at by scholars and linguists to find its translation. There has been a drawn-out debate on the stone's authenticity, with a scholarly consensus that classifies it as a hoax and the community which is convinced that it is authentic.
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Americanized form of Norwegian and Danish Gundersen or its cognate Gunnersen (see Gunnerson ), and also of Swedish and Icelandic Gunnarsson (see Gunnarson ). This form of the surname is also found in Sweden (also Gundersson), but it is very rare there.
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