On this day in 1945 the first atomic bomb was tested. Scholars, military historians, politicians, almost everyone since has argued the pros and cons of the subsequent dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan thus ending the Second World War. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
July 13, 1787 the Congress of the United States, this is the government under the Articles of Confederation, passed the Northwest Ordinance. This is one of the best acts of the government we had before the Constitution. Under the Northwest […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today in 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican, proposed that the federal government pay for and create a system of highways that would crisscross the country and provide easy movement for the armed forces in case of need. We were […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today is the anniversary of the day the sitting Vice President of the United States shot and fatally wounded in a duel the former Secretary of the Treasury. Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton met on a “field of honor” in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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