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The first official acknowledgement of the sovereignty of the United States of America was on November 16, 1776, when the first foreign salute [7] was given to the American Flag. The gun salute was given to the vessel USS Andrew Doria in Fort Orange on the Dutch island of St. Eustatius.
Bailey, Thomas A. America Faces Russia: Russian-American Relations from Early Times to Our Day (1950). online; Bashkina, Nina N; and David F. Trask, eds. The United States and Russia : the beginning of relations, 1765-1815 (1980), 1260pp online primary sources; Bolkhovitinov, Nikolai N. The Beginnings of Russian-American Relations, 1775-1815 ...
The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire by the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $129 million in 2023) [1].On May 15 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18.
During a New York real estate conference in 2008, President Donald Trump's eldest son admitted that a lot of the family's assets come from Russia.
The secession effort was hindered, in part, by Marinelli’s residence in Russia, which organizers said in 2017 had led some supporters to back out because of ears of being accused of being ...
After Russian America was sold to the U.S. in 1867, for $7.2 million (2 cents per acre, equivalent to $156,960,000 in 2023), all the holdings of the Russian–American Company were liquidated. Following the transfer, many elders of the local Tlingit tribe maintained that " Castle Hill " comprised the only land that Russia was entitled to sell.
A Russian-American dual citizen was arrested in Russia over a $51 donation to Ukraine. Ksenia Karelina, a 33-year-old woman who lives in Los Angeles, was arrested on charges of treason for what ...
Nikita Khrushchev watches filming for the 1960 movie Can-Can at 20th Century Studios while visiting Los Angeles. During the visit, Los Angeles mayor Norris Poulson addressed Khrushchev's "We will bury you" statement made at the Embassy of Poland in Moscow three years prior when delivering welcome remarks. Poulson stated the following: "We do ...