The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was designed by a 21-year-old architecture student, Maya Lin, following a national competition. Her minimalist design featured two black granite walls set into the ground, forming a V-shape.
The Greenwich Meridian became the international standard for zero degrees longitude, ensuring continuity with most existing nautical charts.
Over 500,000 protesters marched on Washington D.C. as part of the national Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam.
Taking place on the centenary of President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which he declared the freedom of slaves, ‘I Have a Dream’ was the sixteenth of eighteen speeches given by different orators that day and is regularly described as one of the best speeches of the 20th Century.
Nixon announced his resignation in a televised speech on 8 August and it took effect from noon the next day.
The White House was built as part of the development of the Federal City – a national capital founded under the terms of the 1790 Residence Act.
James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C.
The money allowed for the purchase of approximately 3,000 volumes from England that were housed in the north wing of the Capitol building.
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.
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