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National Museum of African American History and Culture opens to the public. District of Columbia statehood referendum, 2016; 2017 January 20: Inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump; January 21: National Women's March on Washington scheduled. 2018 – The Washington Capitals win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.
October 6 – American Library Association founded in Philadelphia. November 7 The 1876 presidential election ends indecisively with 184 Electoral College votes for Samuel J. Tilden, 165 for Rutherford B. Hayes, and 20 in dispute. The new president (Hayes) is not decided until 1877.
September 10 – John Ireland Howe, American inventor (b. 1793) September 27 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate Civil War general (b. 1817) October 1 – James Lick, American land baron (b. 1796) November 16 – Karl Ernst von Baer, Estonian-German scientist, explorer (b. 1792) November 18 – Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, French painter (b. 1807)
The view of Washington, DC taken from the 2nd floor bay window. The site of the Frederick Douglass home originally was purchased by John Van Hook in about 1855. Van Hook built the main portion of the present house soon after taking possession of the property. For a portion of 1877, the house was owned by the Freedom Savings and Trust Company ...
Rodney Young of American University wrote that: [3] If there is one slavery monument whose origins are highly political, the Freedman's memorial is it. The development process for this memorial started immediately after Abraham Lincoln's assassination and ended, appropriately enough, near the end of Reconstruction in 1876.
The men in the Hamburg Company militia were entirely black and mostly freedmen.A white supremacist group called the Red Shirts, led by Benjamin Tillman, who later went on serve a 24-year career in the United States Senate and whose term was marked by enacting racist legislation, instigated confrontations with the black citizens by claiming that said freedmen intentionally blocked passage of ...
The museum opened in 1964 as the Museum of History and Technology.It was one of the last structures designed by the renowned architectural firm McKim Mead & White.In 1980, the museum was renamed the National Museum of American History to represent its mission of the collection, care, study, and interpretation of objects that reflect the experience of the American people.
The election had the highest voter turnout of the eligible voting-age population in American history, at 82.6%. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Tilden's 50.9% is the largest share of the popular vote received by a candidate who was not elected to the presidency , and was the only presidential election in U.S. history in which the losing candidate won a majority of ...