When was the first meeting of the U.S. Supreme Court?
The first meeting of the U.S. Supreme Court was on February 2,1790, in New York City.
John Jay presided as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1789 to 1795.
Ronald Reagan made the joke about bombing the Soviet Union a few minutes before his weekly radio broadcast on August 11, 1984. He said, “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to announce I just signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
Idaho-born sculptor Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941), with the help of his son, carved the faces on Mount Rushmore from 1927 to 1941. The faces are those of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and George Washington.
The first protest was at a segregated lunch counter begun by four black college students at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960. In the next two weeks, sit-ins spread to 15 cities across the South.
Theodore Roosevelt offered a “square deal”. Franklin Delano Roosevelt offered a “new deal”. Harry Truman offered a ‘fair deal”.
The oldest legal code, the Code of Hammurabi was developed circa 1950 B.C. during the reign of Babylonian leader Hammurabi. It is now known for its emphasis on the law of retaliation (an eye for an eye).
The third Olympiad, held in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904 was the first Olympics held in the United States.