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A Mothers' Day celebration was held in Boston in 1872 at the suggestion of abolitionist and suffragist Julia Ward Howe, writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
President Reagan stated January 27, 1983: "In 1775, the Continental Congress proclaimed the first National Day of Prayer."
President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist in 1901. The next President, Theodore Roosevelt wanted the government to track anarchist groups, as well as stop sex-trafficking. This led to the creation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1908.
In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to settle Roanoke Island, Virginia, which he named after the "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth I.
"A people that legislate for themselves ought to be in the habit of protecting themselves."
"The Great War" began in 1914 between Germany and its allies, against England and France and their allies.
Booker T. Washington was born in a slave hut on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia, APRIL 5, 1856.
With responses of former presidential candidates.
In 1331, a plague originated in China, where millions died. It was spread by fleas in caravans traveling the Silk Road, and by rats on ships from the Orient and Middle East.
In the U.S. Capitol Rotunda is a sculpture of women suffrage leaders Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott.
Francis Scott Key's anthem and his fight to free slaves
"There is only one defense — a defense compounded of eternal vigilance, sound policies, and high courage," stated John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State during the Cold War, to the Overseas Press Club in New York, March 30, 1954.
Over 100 American lives lost for each mile of 50-mile-wide Isthmus
Morocco began recognizing American colonists in 1625. Governor William Bradford described the incident in the History of the Plymouth Settlement.
Ronald Reagan was born FEBRUARY 6, 1911. A graduate of Eureka College, IL, 1932, he worked as a life guard, having 77 rescues. He then announced for radio stations in Iowa.
A flashback to 80 years ago
Virginia, the largest state in America in 1788, almost refused to ratify the U.S. Constitution, as it did not contain a Bill of Rights, as Virginia's State Constitution did.
Considered one of the five greatest Senators in U.S. history, Daniel Webster's statue stands in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, placed there by the State of New Hampshire.
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"
Faithful women have always played a vital role in American history.
