When Alba Caroli Evenstad was born on 8 December 1904, in Downer, Clay, Minnesota, United States, his father, Haakon Mathius Evenstad, was 34 and his mother, Anna Caroline Nelson, was 30. He married Arlene Cecelia Dart on 2 January 1939, in Moorhead, Clay, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Samerey, Côte-d'Or, France in 1935 and Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1940. He died on 24 June 1958, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries 1910: Pennington, Minnesota, United States
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of the five farmsteads so named, from a personal name (Old Norse personal name Eyvindr; see Evensen ) + stad (from Old Norse stathr ‘farmstead, dwelling’).
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