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October 3, 2023 – McCarthy becomes the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives to be removed from office. October 25, 2023 – Mike Johnson elected Speaker. October 2023–January 2024 – Over 115 attacks occur on U.S. military bases in Iraq and Syria.
June 1: The Patent Office formed. March 16 – Congress authorizes the establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. April 19 – The Judiciary Act of 1802 is enacted, reorganizing the federal court system. April 30 – The Enabling Act of 1802 authorizes the creation of Ohio from the Northwest Territory and sets ...
1911 – Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil. 1911 – Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. 1911 – First Indianapolis 500 is staged; Ray Harroun is the first winner. 1912 – RMS Titanic sank. 1912 – New Mexico and Arizona become states. 1912 – Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low.
December 2 – Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States (born 1806) December 3 – John Wales, United States Senator from Delaware from 1849 till 1851. (born 1783) See also. Timeline of United States history (1860–1899) References
Events. February 1 – Willamette University is established in Salem, Oregon. March – Commonwealth v. Hunt: the Massachusetts Supreme Court makes strikes and unions legal in the United States. March 5 – Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio, and then head back to the Rio Grande.
January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery -operated telephone switchboard, in Lexington, Massachusetts. February 7 – 5-month Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 begins. February 9 – Milton S. Hershey establishes the Hershey ...
This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1860 to 1899.
