Wind – Advisory


From Fri, Nov 10, 7:00 PM PST To Sat, Nov 11, 7:00 AM PST

What

South winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph expected.

Where

Southwest Interior, Everett and Vicinity, Tacoma Area, Hood Canal Area, Lower Chehalis Valley Area, Central Coast, Bellevue and Vicinity, Seattle and Vicinity and Bremerton and Vicinity.

When

From 7 PM this evening to 7 AM PST Saturday.

Impacts

Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.

Additional Details

Winds will be strongest near the water.

Tips

Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.

Issued By

NWS Seattle

Mexicans Fill Labor Shortages During WWII


1942: Labor shortages during World War II prompted the United States and Mexico to form the Bracero Program, which allowed Mexican agricultural workers to enter the United States temporarily. The program lasted until 1964.

1948: The United States passed the nation’s first refugee and resettlement law to deal with the influx of Europeans seeking permanent residence in the United States after World War II.

1952: The McCarran-Walter Act formally ends the exclusion of Asian immigrants to the United States.

1956-1957: The United States admitted roughly 38,000 immigrants from Hungary after a failed uprising against the Soviet Union. They were among the first Cold War refugees. The United States would admit over 3 million refugees during the Cold War.

1960-1962: Roughly 14,000 unaccompanied children flee Fidel Castro’s Cuba and come to the United States as part of a secret, anti-Communism program called Operation Peter Pan.

1808 Osage Treaty / Treaty of Fort Clark, Osage Nation cedes territory in Missouri and Arkansas to the US


Nov. 10, 1808. | 7 Stat., 107. | Ratified Apr. 28, 1810.

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Treaty, when to take effect.

Articles of a treaty made and concluded at Fort Clark, on the right bank of the Missouri, about five miles above the Fire Prairie, in the territory of Louisiana, the tenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, between Peter Chouteau, esquire, agent for the Osage, and specially commissioned and instructed to enter into the same by his excellency Meriwether Lewis, governor and superintendent of Indian affairs for the territory aforesaid, in behalf of the United States of America, of the one part, and the chiefs and warriors of the Great and Little Osage, for themselves and their nations respectively, on the other part.

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