Happy Birthday Cordell Hull
America’s longest-serving secretary of State, Cordell Hull, was born on October 2, 1871, in Olympus, Overton County (now Pickett County), Tennessee.
America’s longest-serving secretary of State, Cordell Hull, was born on October 2, 1871, in Olympus, Overton County (now Pickett County), Tennessee.
On September 30, 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt presided over the dedication ceremony of the Boulder Dam (the name was later changed to honor Herbert Hoover).
On September 27, 1777, Lancaster, Pennsylvania served as the nation’s capital for a single day.
On September 20, 1947, former New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia died.
On September 18, 1793, President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
On September 16, 1893, some 100,000 people raced to claim 6 million acres of land in former Indian Territory in Oklahoma.
Eight days after being shot by an assassin at the Pan-American Expo, President McKinley died on September 14, 1901.
On September 9, 1850, California became America’s 31st state.
After more than eight years of fighting, the American Revolutionary War came to and end on September 3, 1783, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.