Andrew Johnson Impeached
On February 24, 1868, Andrew Johnson became the first American president to be impeached.
On February 24, 1868, Andrew Johnson became the first American president to be impeached.
Civil rights activist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine mysteriously exploded in Havana Harbor, leading the U.S. to declare war on Spain two months later.
On February 6, 1778, Delegates of King Louis XVI of France and the Second Continental Congress signed a Treaty of Alliance, promising military support to each other.
Pilot Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born on February 4, 1902, in Detroit, Michigan.
On February 3, 1690, the Massachusetts Bay Colony issued the first paper money in America.
Stamp collecting President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York.
On January 22, 1901, the longest-reigning British monarch up to that time, Queen Victoria, died.
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.