Lincoln’s “eye for an eye” order was an order issued in 1863 during the Civil War that the Union would shoot a Confederate prisoner for every black Union prisoner shot. It would also condemn a Confederate prisoner to hard labor for life for every black prisoner sold into slavery. The order was meant to deter…
No one knows for sure who first said “Taxation without representation is tyranny”. Lawyer James Otis is often credited with having coined the phrase in 1761, but the evidence for that is shaky. The exact words did not appear in print until 1820, when John Adams recalled them in some notes.
Richard Nixon was the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet capital of Moscow while in office in 1972.
The oldest confirmed site of human habitation in the continental United States is an archeological site at Clovis, New Mexico. It is a site that dates back 11,500 years, to a time when mammoths were still alive. The site was discovered in 1952.
The major political parties held their national conventions in Los Angeles only once. The Democratic Party nominated John F. Kennedy in Los Angeles in July 1960.
The first American steam railroad to carry both passengers and freight was the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. It began operation in 1830, powered by the Tom Thumb locomotive built by American manufacturer Peter Cooper (1791-1883).