Birth of William Allen White
Newspaper editor and politician William Allen White was born on February 10, 1868, in Emporia, Kansas.
Newspaper editor and politician William Allen White was born on February 10, 1868, in Emporia, Kansas.
Politician Adlai Stevenson II was born on February 5, 1900, in Los Angeles, California.
At 12:01 a.m. on February 2, 1913, Grand Central Terminal officially opened in New York City.
Stamp collecting President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York.
On January 20, 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to be sworn in under the new rules of the 20th Amendment.
Born on December 31, 1880, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Army general and American statesman George C. Marshall was a distant relative of former Chief Justice John Marshall.
On December 26, 1972, America’s 33rd president, Harry S. Truman, died.
On June 23, 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Civil Aeronautics Act, creating the Civil Aeronautics Authority.
On June 20, 1863, West Virginia joined the Union as the 35th state.