The oldest continuous elected legislative assembly in the New World, the House of Burgesses in Virginia, convened for the first time.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The oldest continuous elected legislative assembly in the New World, the House of Burgesses in Virginia, convened for the first time.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for an unprecedented third term as President of the United States.
The Deputies of the French Third Estate swore not to separate until a written constitution had been established for the country.
The Russian Empire’s State Duma met for the first time at the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg.
Suffering from severe bleeding, the Tsar was taken to the Winter Palace where he died from his wounds.
Having previously served as a senator and later military governor for the state of Tennessee, Andrew Johnson was chosen by Abraham Lincoln to be his running mate in the election of 1864.
Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.
Abraham Lincoln was elected barely five months before the outbreak of the American Civil War, and was assassinated less than a month before its end.
This Constitution of the Year III established a bicameral legislature and a five-man Directory that wielded executive power.
On the 15th June 1215, Magna Carta – one of the most famous documents in the world – was approved by King John when he added his seal to it in a field at Runnymede near Windsor in England.
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