February 26, 1928: A Boeing Air Transport Model 40B (c/n 891, registration NC280) crashed near Marquette, Nebraska after the aircraft struck trees when flying low to avoid air turbulence; the passenger was killed, but the pilot survived.
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January 12 – "Schoolhouse Blizzard": Blizzards hit Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of whom are children on their way home from school.
Two nights later NC State captured its first NCAA championship by beating Marquette 76-64.
Late in the half, Nebraska got on the board after a seven-play, 80-yard drive culminated in a Turner Gill touchdown pass followed by the extra point by Kevin Seibel.
On the play immediately prior to Lawrence's field goal, as the game clock ticked down Texas quarterback Colt McCoy rolled far to the right, with Nebraska's Ndamukong Suh in pursuit, and threw a pass well down field and out of bounds.
The society, known as Alpha Sigma Tau until 1930, spread from Marquette to Creighton University, to St. Louis University and to the University of Detroit in its first decade.
Fort Robinson (named for Levi H. Robinson), formerly Camp Robinson, a former U.S. Army fort and a present-day state park, in Crawford, Nebraska, United States
This inaction led Redmond to file a Title IX suit against Nebraska in 1995; the suit was settled two years later with Nebraska paying $50,000 and the other two agreeing to pay an undisclosed sum of money.
The first meeting, organized by the Council of State Governments and funded by private foundations, and held in St. Louis, Missouri, was held at the behest of New Jersey Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Nebraska Chief Justice Robert G. Simmons and Missouri Chief Justice Laurance M. Hyde, who was elected as the first chairman by the representatives of the 44 states in attendance.
Born in Elk Creek, Nebraska, Way was educated at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in its earliest days, where he gained his lifelong interest in graphic design and typography.
In 1988, Dillard's purchased the three-unit Miller & Paine chain in Lincoln, Nebraska, as well as more significantly, a half-interest and operational control of The Higbee Co., based in Cleveland, Ohio with partner Edward J. DeBartolo Corp.
He has worked with troubled youth for 35 years being a member of the Nebraska and National Associations of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors and a former Boys Town counselor and administrator.
Elaine Stuhr (born 1936) is a Nebraska state senator from Bradshaw, Nebraska in the Nebraska Legislature and farmer.
The girls basketball team completed a perfect 28-0 season in the 2003-04 high school season winning the Nebraska Class D1 State High School Championship defeating Elm Creek in the championship game 57-46.
The Federal Reserve moved two blocks away on Marquette Avenue to a building now known as Marquette Plaza, which is constructed much like a suspension bridge with cables strung between pillars at the ends carrying the load.
The Fort Niobrara Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Nebraska, near Valentine.
On June 3, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI named Lucas the fifth Archbishop of Omaha, Nebraska.
The Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival in Marquette, Michigan is held each year during the next-to-last full weekend of July and features traditional, acoustic, American music.
The new judge left Nebraska in August 1869, taking the newly completed Transcontinental Railroad to California before boarding a ship south to the mouth of the Colorado River.
John J. Ryan, known as Jack, head football coach at Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin
Among its other targets had been another middle-aged Nebraska farmer, Bob Brase, of Shelby.
Born Genevieve Hering in Royal, Nebraska, Southern began playing piano at age three, and at age six started formal study in classical piano.
Jocelyn and Marlon Brando and their sister Frances grew up mostly in the Midwest—in Omaha, Nebraska, Evanston and Libertyville, Illinois, though the family also spent time in California.
KAZO-LP, a low-power television station (channel 57) licensed to Omaha, Nebraska, United States
KBRX-FM, a radio station (102.9 FM) licensed to O'Neill, Nebraska, United States
KLNE-FM, a radio station (88.7 FM) licensed to Lexington, Nebraska, United States
KOOO, a radio station (101.9 FM) licensed to serve La Vista, Nebraska, United States, which held the call sign KLTQ from 2002 to 2007
The organization supports financial need based scholarship programs, administers Nebraska's Pioneer Farm program, Good Neighbor Awards, and Ike Friedman Leadership Awards.
KOGA-FM, a radio station (99.7 FM) licensed to Ogallala, Nebraska, United States
Loma was a filming location and the primary setting of the 1995 film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (as the fictional village of Snydersville, Nebraska).
Marquette Iron Rangers were a semi-pro senior ice hockey team from Marquette, Michigan that played in the United States Hockey League from 1964-1976 where they were five-time champions (three league and two playoffs).
Michael J. Cramer, former president of the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars, and James Swiatko, former Lead Articles Editor of the Marquette Sports Law Review and 2007 graduate, "Did Major League Baseball Balk - Why Didn't MLB Bargain to Impasse and Impose Stricter Testing for Performance Enhancing Substances," 17 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 29 (2006).
After seven years in private business for himself, Ekeler returned to the game when he began volunteer coaching for V. J. and Angela Skutt Catholic High School in Omaha, Nebraska from 1999 to 2001, and as an assistant coach at Manhattan High School in Manhattan, Kansas in 2002, back in the town where he had played for Kansas State almost a decade before.
Cup matches since 2006 have taken on a heightened sense of rivalry due to Louis Bennett's acceptance of the head coaching position at Marquette.
The Mining Journal, the predominant daily newspaper of Marquette, Michigan and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
In 1673, Marquette and Joliet needed a translator from Miami-Illinois to understand the Michigamea; most contact was in Plains Sign Language.
In fact, Nebraska did not make its first NCAA Tournament appearance until 1986.
The outback is connected with the rest of Nebraska by way of four Nebraska byways: Bridges to Buttes Byway (Highway 20), the Outlaw Trail (Highway 12) and small sections of the Loup Rivers Scenic Byway (Highways 91/11), and the Sandhills Journey (Highway 2) in Blaine County.
A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Abbott was a secondary lead in several films of the 1950s and 1960s, including Miracle of the White Stallions (1963).
He married on December 27, 1858 at Omaha, Nebraska, Annie M. Monell, the daughter of Lucinda Carpenter and Dr. Gilbert C. Monell, an 1839 graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and a member of the Old Settlers' Association.
Whiteclay, Nebraska, known to the U.S. Census Bureau as "Pine Ridge, Nebraska"
Prairie Schooner a magazine published by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
On September 25, 2013, it was announced that Wild would become interim president of Marquette University effective October 16, 2013, through August 2014, upon the resignation of Rev. Scott Pilarz.
Amoroso left Marquette after arguing with then coach Tom Crean about the amount of time he spent playing poker online.
Sawyer Brown wrote "The Nebraska Song" in honor of Brook Berringer, a Nebraska Cornhuskers quarterback who died in a plane crash on April 18, 1996.
Southern Power District: a publicly owned electric utility in south-central Nebraska
The film tells the story of a young boy, Miles Caraday (Marquette), a jazz piano prodigy who has Tourette syndrome, and his divorced mother Laura Caraday (Draper).
Democratic Mayor Mike Fahey of Omaha said that he would do whatever it takes to deliver the electoral vote tied to the 2nd Congressional District to Obama, and the Obama Campaign considered Nebraska's 2nd congressional district "in play".
The uranium will be absorbed onto ion-exchange resin beads at the mine; the beads will be shipped to existing facilities of Power Resources Inc. (Cameco) in Wyoming and Nebraska for recovery of the uranium.
Cassel was appointed to the court on April 26, 2012 by Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, filling a position made vacant by the appointment of John M. Gerrard to the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.