{"slug": "missouri", "label": "Missouri", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1581", "qid": "Q1581", "description": "state of the United States of America", "entries": 11, "years": 8, "span": [1820, 1979], "span_label": ["1820 CE", "1979 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 5}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["State of Missouri"], "related": [{"slug": "u-s-state", "label": "U.S. state", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "illinois", "label": "Illinois", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "indiana", "label": "Indiana", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-states", "label": "United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-states-senate", "label": "United States Senate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "republican-party-united-states", "label": "Republican Party (United States)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "maine", "label": "Maine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "st-louis", "label": "St. Louis", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mcdonald-s", "label": "McDonald's", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1820, "year_label": "1820 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 3", "text": "March 3 and 6 – The Missouri Compromise becomes law, allowing admission of Missouri and Maine, as slave and free states respectively, as U.S. states.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368795492#January–March", "title": "1820", "revid": 1368795492, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1821, "year_label": "1821 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 10", "text": "August 10 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366198623#July–September", "title": "1821", "revid": 1366198623, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1821, "year_label": "1821 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 10", "text": "August 10 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state (see History of Missouri).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369766679#Events", "title": "1821 in the United States", "revid": 1369766679, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1854, "year_label": "1854 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 30", "text": "May 30 – The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law (replacing the Missouri Compromise of 1820), creating the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory, west of the State of Missouri and the State of Iowa. The Kansas–Nebraska Act also establishes that these two new Territories will decide either to allow or disallow slavery, depending on balloting by their residents (these areas would have been strictly \"free territory\" under the Missouri Compromise, which allowed slavery in the State of Missouri but disallowed it in any other new state north of latitude 36° 30', which forms most of the southern boundary of Missouri. This prohibition of slavery extended all the way from the western boundary of Missouri to the Pacific Ocean).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362496011#April–June", "title": "1854", "revid": 1362496011, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1861, "year_label": "1861 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 – The Missouri legislature takes up a bill for Missouri's secession from the Union.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368946725#October", "title": "1861", "revid": 1368946725, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1876, "year_label": "1876 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "Adolphus Busch's brewery, Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis, Missouri, first markets Budweiser, a pale lager, as a nationally sold beer.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363589433#Date_unknown", "title": "1876", "revid": 1363589433, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1890, "year_label": "1890 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Emerson Electric, an American electronics industry giant, is founded in Missouri.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364071388#Date_unknown", "title": "1890", "revid": 1364071388, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1925, "year_label": "1925 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March 18", "text": "March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; West Frankfort, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367485783#March", "title": "1925", "revid": 1367485783, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1925, "year_label": "1925 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March 18", "text": "March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana. The storm's damage path is indicated at 378 km (235 mi).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370308234#January–March", "title": "1925 in the United States", "revid": 1370308234, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 – McDonald's introduces the Happy Meal in the United States in a nationwide advertising campaign after testing the product since February in franchises in the U.S. state of Missouri.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#June", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "December 31", "text": "December 31 – Josh Hawley, American politician, U.S. Senator (R-MO) from 2019", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#December", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Births › December"}}]}