The Moscow–Washington hotline entered operation, providing a direct link between the Kremlin and the Pentagon.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The Moscow–Washington hotline entered operation, providing a direct link between the Kremlin and the Pentagon.
The Act outlawed discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex, or national origin and is consequently viewed as a landmark piece of civil rights legislation.
The Pig War border confrontation began when Lyman Cutlar shot a British-owned pig on San Juan Island.
The 555-foot tall Washington Monument was dedicated at a ceremony featuring President Chester Arthur alongside fellow politicians, engineers and freemasons.
American President George Washington delivered the very first State of the Union address to Congress.
Public celebrations were held throughout the country, while President George Washington gave thanks in New York City.
Washington’s face was the first to be completed, seven years after work began. In July 1939 Roosevelt was the final likeness to be dedicated.
The Siege of Yorktown was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North America.
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’.
On the 13th October 1792 the cornerstone of the White House, which at the time was to be known as the United States Executive Mansion, was laid.
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