In 1824, the presidential election was turned over to the House of Representatives when a deadlock developed between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay, Adams was eventually declared the winner.
In 1909, the first Christmas Club payment was made, to the Carlisle Trust Company in Carlisle, Pa.
In 1955, black seamstress Rosa Parks defied the law by refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus to a white man. She was arrested, sparking a yearlong boycott of the buses by blacks. The law requiring blacks to sit in the back of buses was eventually struck down by the Supreme Court.
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"It's not that I'm afraid to die - I just don't want to be there when it happenes."