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The Birth of Pennsylvania, a portrait of William Penn (standing with document in hand), who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a refuge for Quakers after receiving a royal deed to it from King Charles II. The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of what is now ...
African-American activist Robert Purvis refused to pay his Pennsylvania state taxes in protest against the state's denial of equal voting rights to black citizens around 1838, and then refused to pay the part of his property tax that went towards education in 1853 when his children were refused admission to the whites-only classrooms. [47]
[14] [b] Several hundred people attended the dedication ceremony on June 8, 1952. [14] The Commonwealth took much of the Town Forest in the 1950s to construct Massachusetts Route 128. [16] The state returned 71 acres in the median to the Town in 1972 for use of hikers and picnickers. [16]
Condensed matter physics is the largest field of contemporary physics. Historically, condensed matter physics grew out of solid-state physics, which is now considered one of its main subfields. [78] The term condensed matter physics was apparently coined by Philip Anderson when he renamed his research group—previously solid-state theory—in ...
Head of State: The ceremonial head of the state and civilian commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Armed Forces is the President, elected by an Electoral College. [233] The Prime Minister advises the President on key appointments, including military and judicial positions, and the President is constitutionally bound to act on this advice.
Adolf Hofmann, the Free State of Prussia minister for culture, attempted to decree a total separation of church and state, forcing religion out of schools. This stirred up a wave of protest among the Catholic population, and bishops, Catholic organisations and the Centre Party itself united to combat the "red danger".
April 8 - Dr. Frank Cody, Detroit councilman and former president of Wayne University, in Detroit [102] July 3 - Samuel Odell, Michigan State Treasurer (1917–1919), at age 64 in Shelby Township, Michigan [103] August 26 - Fielding H. Yost, University of Michigan football coach (1901–1926), at age 75 in Ann Arbor