U.S. President History
1775 - George Washington was appointed head of the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress.
1849 - The eleventh president of the United States, James Knox Polk, died.
1916 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.
1992 - U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle instructed a student to spell "potato" with an "e" on the end during a spelling bee. He had relied on a faulty flash card that had been written by the student's teacher.
| "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." - U.S. President John Adams |