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1751: Georgetown founded 1752 – February: First survey of Georgetown completed. [1]1784 – October 7: Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts motions “that buildings for the use of Congress be erected on the banks of the Delaware near Trenton, or of the Potomac, near Georgetown, provided a suitable district can be procured on one of the rivers as aforesaid, for a federal town”.
An aerial photo of Washington, D.C. in 2007. The history of Washington, D.C., is tied to its role as the capital of the United States. The site of the District of Columbia along the Potomac River was first selected by President George Washington. The city came under attack during the War of 1812 in an episode known as the Burning of Washington.
The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and established a new territorial government for the whole District of Columbia. Though Congress repealed the territorial government in 1874, the legislation was the first to create a single government for the federal ...
In 1999, recently appointed Chief of Police Charles H. Ramsey partnered with the Washington DC Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to create a new training program that used the lessons of the Holocaust to help officers better understand their roles in upholding the Constitution and ...
57th Military Police Company; 58th Military Police Company; 552nd Military Police Company; 558th Military Police Company; 13th Military Police Detachment; 39th Military Police Detachment; United States Army Pacific: Active Duty 11th Military Police Brigade - Ashley, PA. 96th Military Police Battalion - San Diego, CA; 320th Military Police ...
The 1977 Hanafi Siege was a terrorist attack, hostage-taking, and standoff in Washington, D.C., lasting from March 9 to March 11, 1977.Three buildings (the District Building, B'nai B'rith headquarters, and Islamic Center of Washington) were seized by twelve Hanafi Movement gunmen, who took 149 hostages. [1]
The U.S. Capitol Police also have extended jurisdiction over parts of Northeast, Northwest, and Southwest Washington D.C. [9] The USCP provides protection detail to House and Senate leaders, other congressmen and -women depending on individual risk analysis, lawmakers' state and district offices (with the help of local police), and "off-campus ...
Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling (also German: Schutzmänner-Brigade Siegling; lit. ' Siegling's Auxiliary Police Brigade ') was a Belarusian Auxiliary Police brigade formed by Nazi Germany in July 1944 in East Prussia, from six auxiliary police battalions (60th and 64th Belarusian and the 57th, 61st, 62nd and 63rd Ukrainian) following the Soviet Operation Bagration.