The money allowed for the purchase of approximately 3,000 volumes from England that were housed in the north wing of the Capitol building.
16th January 1412: Antipope John XXIII makes the Medici Bank the official bank to the Papacy
16th January 2019
After intense debate Senators voted 48 to 8 to seat Revels as the first African-American in the United States Senate.
The 555-foot tall Washington Monument was dedicated at a ceremony featuring President Chester Arthur alongside fellow politicians, engineers and freemasons.
Although the organization’s numbers have fallen in recent years, it still has an estimated 2.2 million members.
Would-be assassin Richard Lawrence was found ‘not guilty by reason of insanity’ and was committed to an asylum.
Over 500,000 protesters marched on Washington D.C. as part of the national Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam.
The Greenwich Meridian became the international standard for zero degrees longitude, ensuring continuity with most existing nautical charts.
On the 28th August 1963, American Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic ‘I Have a Dream’ speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.
It had taken Congress eight years to agree on how to fulfil James Smithson’s desire to establish and institution ‘for the increase and diffusion of knowledge’.
Tens of thousands of Ku Klux Klan members took part in an organised march through Washington D.C.
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