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Delaplane Historic District is a national historic district located at Delaplane, Fauquier County, Virginia.. The rural village of Delaplane was founded in 1852 around the Piedmont Station of the newly chartered Manassas Gap Railroad (originally to link the Alexandria and Orange Railroad with the line running into the Shenandoah valley at Manassas; still operated by the Norfolk Southern Railroad).
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1990 and 1999. All of the 166 people (165 males and 1 female) during this period were convicted of murder and executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
On July 9, 2014, a mass shooting occurred in a home located in northern Harris County, Texas, near the Spring census-designated place, a suburban area of the Greater Houston area, leaving six family members dead, four children, and a lone survivor. Ronald Lee Haskell, 34, was apprehended after a standoff that lasted several hours.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 2000 and 2009. All of the 248 people (246 males and 2 females) during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
The newspaper The Little River News reported that West was probably shot and killed "after he flourished a pistol and threatened the men who intended only to whip him." [366] [353] Gilbert Harris : 28 African-American Hot Springs: Garland County: Arkansas: August 1, 1922 Killing of Maurice Connelly (insurance solicitor) in a burglary gone wrong
George Andrew Atzerodt (June 12, 1835 – July 7, 1865) [1] [2] was a German American repairman, Confederate sympathizer, and conspirator in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. He was assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson , but lost his nerve and made no attempt. [ 3 ]
A shooting at a park left a man dead and four other men injured during the afternoon. [203] June 6: Kansas City (6) Missouri: 2 2 4: A shooting at a home in a domestic violence incident left a man and a boy dead and two others, including another boy, injured in the Oak Park Northwest neighborhood. [204] June 3: Philadelphia (6) Pennsylvania: 0 4 4
On 8 June 1948, in Saskatchewan, Canada, a farmer named Cecil George Harris who had become trapped under his own tractor carved a will into the tractor's fender. It read, "In case I die in this mess I leave all to the wife. Cecil Geo. Harris." The fender was probated and was deemed valid as his will under Canadian inheritance law. [3]