Madison signed the declaration of war against Great Britain, marking the first time that the United States declared war on another nation.
1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation
1st February 2021
On the 17th June 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbour on board the French steam ship Isère.
Having opened on 16 June 1884, passengers paid 5 cents to ride the Switchback Railways and achieved speeds of up to 6 miles per hour.
US President Ronald Reagan made a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in which he called on the USSR’s leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to ‘Tear down this wall!’
Alcoholics Anonymous, which operates through local groups that follow a 12-step rehabilitation program to help people overcome alcoholism, is now estimated have around two million members worldwide.
The missile was fired from the deck of the submarine USS Barbero towards the Naval Auxiliary Air Station in Mayport, Florida, and completed its 700-mile flight in just 22 minutes.
Elvis Presley purchased Graceland for $102,500 in 1957 when he was 22 years old.
The Marshall Plan provided aid to 16 Western European nations, distributing more than $13 billion of aid over a four year period.
The camels proved themselves to be both fast and strong, easily outperforming the horses and mules that the Army had used up until that point.
Just a few months later the First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia, uniting the colonies in the face of increasingly oppressive British rule.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019