The first political party in America was the Federalist Party, founded in 1790 by Alexander Hamilton and John Adams.
Around the same time, Thomas Jefferson built a rival organization that became known as the Republican or Democratic-Republican Party.
The largest earthquake in American history was the Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964. The quake, on March 28, 1964, had its epicenter near Anchorage and measured a 9.2 on the Richter scale. This is the second highest magnitude ever recorded, behind a 9.5 earthquake in Chile.
Willie O’Ree, who played one season for the Boston Bruins, 1960-61 was the first black professional hockey player.
Henry Lee, a fellow officer in the Revolutionary War and the father of Civil War general Robert E. Lee called George Washington “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen”.
Louisiana named after King Louis XIV of France, who reigned from 1643 to 1715. The entire Mississippi River Valley was named Louisiana and claimed for France by Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, in 1682.
There have been two “Banks of the United States”, both chartered by Congress and both allowed to expire after 20 years. The First Bank of the United States lasted from 1791 to 1811, the second from 1816 to 1836. Each served as the federal government’s fiscal agents and repositories of federal funds. The banks were…
Clarence Darrow did not graduate from law school. Darrow (1857-1938), famed for his defense in the Scopes trial of 1925, briefly attended the University of Michigan law school but did not get a degree. He studied on his own and got most of his legal education in a law office in Youngstown, Ohio.