Misc: What two states contain the farthest separated points in the U S?

Questions

Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq).?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (in England), poet, born.?

U.S. Navy frigate USS Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston.?

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (in Stockholm, Sweden), created dynamite and Peace Prizes, born.?

Severe earthquake at 7:53 a.m., centered in Hayward, Calif.?