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A People's History of the United States; Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States; Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States; The History of the United States of America 1801–1817; Oxford History of the United States; The Penguin History of the United States of America ...
February 12 – Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national public holiday in the United States. February 18 – Pennsauken Township, New Jersey is incorporated. February 23 – The 7.1–7.2 M w Laguna Salada earthquake shakes Southern California and northern Mexico with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).
The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. [1] The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War.
April 2 – The Electric Theatre, the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California. April 7 – The Texas Oil Company Texaco is founded. [3] April 14 – The first J. C. Penney department store opens in Kemmerer, Wyoming. [4]
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)
August 31 – The Young Plan, which sets the total World War I reparations owed by Germany at US$26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58½ years, is finalized. September 3 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) peaks at 381.17, a height it will not reach again until November 1954.
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1779 – Francis Scott Key, author of the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner", is born.; 1842 – The Lombard Street Riot erupts when white Irish Catholics attack 1,000 African-American members of the Young Men's Vigilant Association who were parading in celebration of the end of slavery in the British West Indies.