In 1783, George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Army and retired to his home at Mount Vernon, Va.
In 1788, Maryland voted to cede a 10-square-mile area for the seat of the national government. The area became the District of Columbia.
In 1805, Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the Mormon Church, was born in Sharon, Vt.
In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law.
In 1968, 82 crew members of the U.S. intelligence ship
"Pueblo" were released by North Korea, 11 months after their capture by the communists, and one day after Maj. General Gilbert H. Woodward, the chief U.S. negotiator, signed a statement of guilt and apology that he verbally declared to be false.
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"Prejudice may be bad, but confining your dislikes to people you know is rather limiting."