1619
First representative assembly in America: The Virginia House of Burgesses held its first meeting in Jamestown, Virginia, becoming one of the earliest representative legislative...
1972
Watergate scandal begins: Five individuals were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, an incident that later...
1896
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict in Plessy v. Ferguson, a landmark ruling that upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of “separate but...
1970
First Earth Day observed: Millions of people across the United States took part in the inaugural Earth Day, giving momentum to the global environmental...