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The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. Congressman David Wilmot of Pennsylvania first introduced the proviso in the House of Representatives on August 8, 1846 , as a rider on a $2,000,000 appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican–American War ...
Grover Cleveland becomes the 22nd president of the United States on March 4, 1885; Benjamin Harrison becomes the 23rd president of the United States on March 4, 1889; The Territory of Dakota is admitted to the Union as the State of North Dakota and the State of South Dakota (the 39th state and the 40th state) on November 2, 1889 [1]
August 8 – Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, professor of jurisprudence (died 1918) August 15 – Ethel Barrymore, actress (died 1959) August 20 – Ralph Budd, railroad president (died 1962) August 27 – Otis F. Glenn, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1928 to 1933 (died 1959) August 28 – Sydney Ayres, silent film actor (died 1916)
The Battle for Paris ended at 2:30 p.m. when the German commander Dietrich von Choltitz surrendered the French capital. At 4 p.m. Charles de Gaulle arrived in the city and walked amid a cheering crowd to the Hôtel de Ville, where he made a rousing speech. [7] [30] Romania switched sides and declared war on Germany. [17]
May 4 – The United States Congress recognizes Bourbon whiskey as a "distinctive product of the United States". May 7 – Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
August 4 – Ernest Lundeen, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1937 to 1940 (died 1940) August 13 – Harold Clarke Goddard, Shakespearean scholar (died 1950) August 28 – George Whipple, pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 (died 1976) August 31 – Frank Jarvis, track athlete (died 1933) September 14
October 6 – The United States Naval War College is established in Newport, Rhode Island. November 4 – 1884 United States presidential election: Democratic governor of New York Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his non-consecutive terms.
August 4 – The Armed Occupation Act is signed, providing for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the Peninsula of East Florida. August 9 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.