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.
Mount St. Helens Eruption. On May 18, 1980 a volcano in Washington state named Mount St. Helens erupted. It was the largest volcanic eruption in the continental United States since 1915. A giant plume of ash rose from the eruption darkening much of eastern Washington and spreading across much of the United States and Canada.