The Socialist Party of America was born in 1901 under the leadership of Eugene V. Debs.
Instead of emphasizing state control of the economy, it advocated worker-protection laws, many of which later came to be enacted.
Among the party’s goals were the reduction of hours in the workday, nationalization of railroads, and the creation of unemployment insurance.
Thomas Jefferson said, “I am not among those who fear the people; they, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom”.
The last Americans, about 1,000, were evacuated from Saigon on April 29, 1975. The Saigon government surrendered a few hours later.
Dwight D. Eisenhower changed the name Shangri-La to Camp David in 1953, naming it after his grandson.
Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973) was elected as Montana’s sole delegate to the House of Representatives in 1916. After serving her term, she was not reelected until 1940. A pacifist, she holds the distinction of being the only member of Congress to have voted against American participation in both World Wars.
Ratified in January 1964, the 24th Amendment made it illegal to deny a citizen the right to vote in a federal election for failure to pay a poll tax. This device had been used by Southern states since Reconstruction to prevent blacks from voting.
The required nine of the thirteen states ratified the Constitution between January and June 1788. But it was not until after Washington was inaugurated in 1789 that all of the states ratified it. The last stragglers were North Carolina in November 1789 and Rhode Island in May 1790.