When Venus Elizabeth McNeill was born on 9 August 1894, in Kansas, United States, her father, Thomas George McNeill, was 25 and her mother, Nora Walcott, was 24. She married Henry Elmond Pendergast in 1915, in Anthony, Harper, Kansas, United States. She lived in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States in 1935 and Ludlow Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1940. She died on 11 December 1989, in San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Barstow, San Bernardino, 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.
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Scottish and Irish (Ulster): variant of McNeil .
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