France Signs Treaty of Alliance with America
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.
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.
Stamp collecting President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York.
On January 24, 1908, Robert Baden-Powell published the first installment of Scouting for Boys, marking the start of the Boy Scouts.
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts.
On January 12, 1962, American forces participated in their first major combat of the Vietnam War – Operation Chopper.
Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11, 1755 (or 57 – the year is unknown), in Nevis in the British West Indies.
Richard Milhous Nixon was born into a poor Quaker family in Yorba Linda, California, on January 9, 1913.
Paul Revere was born on January 1, 1735, according to the modern calendar (December 21, 1734 by the Old Style calendar) in the North End of Boston.