How many people were present at Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address?
Approximately 5,000 people appeared at the dedication of the Civil War battlefield cemetery on November 19, 1863.
Lincoln said, “I believe this government can not endure permanently half slave and half free” in a speech delivered on June 16, 1858, in Springfield, Illinois, accepting the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. In the same speech, Lincoln paraphrased the New Testament, saying, “A house divided against itself can not stand.”
The inexpensive, crystallized cocaine called crack was first noted in urban areas on the west coast of America in 1983.
During World War I (1917-18), Franklin Roosevelt was the assistant secretary of the Navy.
The first president born west of the Mississippi was Herbert Hoover. President Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa.
The Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin to the position of first postmaster general of the United States in 1775. In 1789, Samuel Osgood was named the first postmaster general under the new Constitution.
Ten million Americans were employed in the health care field in 1992, an increase of 43 percent in four years. This vigorous growth contrasts with an increase of only 1 percent in private employment overall during the same period. The Commerce Department expects health spending in the U.S. to exceed $1 trillion in 1994.