Booker T. Washington's Death Revisited. BALTIMORE -- Booker T. Washington died of high blood pressure, a review of his medical records has determined, erasing a cloud over the civil rights leader's death left by one of his doctors more than 90 years ago.
Mount Saint Helens eruption 1980. Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is 96 miles south of Seattle and 50 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon. Mount St. Helens takes its English name from the British diplomat Lord St Helens, a friend of explorer George Vancouver who made a survey of the area in the late 18th century.
May 18th 2015 will mark the 35th anniversary of the eruption of Mount Saint Helens in Washington State which occurred May 18, 1980.