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Events

• William Penn was given a charter for lands in the New World by King Charles II – 1681
• The first Congress met in NY – 1789
• Vermont became the 14th state of the Union – 1791
• George Washington was inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States in Philadelphia; John Adams became Vice President. George Washington’s second inaugural address was the shortest on record—135 words. It took him only two minutes to read it. – 1793
• John Adams was inaugurated as the second U.S. President; Thomas Jefferson became Vice President – 1797
• Thomas Jefferson became the first president to be inaugurated in the new U.S. capital of Washington, D.C.; Aaron Burr became Vice President – 1801
• James Madison inaugurated as 4th U.S. President – 1809
• James Monroe inaugurated as 5th U.S. President – 1817
• John Quincy Adams inaugurated as 6th U.S. President – 1825
• Granite Railway was chartered, Quincy, Massachusetts – 1826
• Andrew Jackson inaugurated as the 7th U.S. President – 1829
• John Quincy Adams returned to the House of Representatives. He was the first former president to do so and served for nine consecutive terms – 1831
• Martin Van Buren inaugurated as the 8th U.S. President – 1837
• William H. Harrison inaugurated as 9th U.S. President; upon his death a month later, the vice president, John Tyler, became the 10th U.S. President – 1841
• James Polk inaugurated as 11th U.S. President – 1845
• Franklin Pierce became the 14th U.S. President – 1853
• James Buchanan became the 15th U.S. President – 1857
• Abraham Lincoln became the 16th U.S. President – 1861
• Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term as U.S. President; Vice President, Andrew Johnson – 1865
• Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th U.S. President – 1869
• Benjamin Harrison was sworn in as the 23rd U.S. President – 1889
• Rep. Jeanette Rankin became first woman in Congress – 1917
• In his first inaugural speech, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt told his fellow Americans that, … the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, referring to the Great Depression. – 1933
• Nuclear-power plant began operation in Antarctica – 1962
• Earthquake destroyed parts of Bucharest Romania, and nearby area, leaving 1,500 dead – 1977
• Voyager I spacecraft revealed rings of Jupiter – 1979
• Bertha Wilson became the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada – 1982
• Machinists strike Eastern Airlines. Pilots and flight attendants honor picket lines – 1989
• British Prime Minister Gordon Brown awarded an honorary knighthood to U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy – 2009
• LeBron James became the first player in the history of the NBA to score 50,000 career points across both the regular season and playoffs – 2025