Although ridiculed shortly afterwards as ‘Seward’s Folly’, the Alaska Purchase has since been reinterpreted as one of President Andrew Johnson’s greatest achievements.
9th August 1173: Construction begins on the Leaning Tower of Pisa
9th August 2019
The Pig War border confrontation began when Lyman Cutlar shot a British-owned pig on San Juan Island.
France agreed to sell 828,000 square miles of territory that stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, and which doubled the size of the United States.
On the 13th January 1935, the Territory of the Saar Basin voted to reunite with Germany.
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