George Washington was born on February 11, 1731. After Great Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752, Washington’s birthday was moved to Feb 22, 1732.
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Over 300,000 flights were made between June 1948 and September 1949 from West Germany to Berlin as part of “Operation Vittles” in response to the Soviet blockade of the western part of the city.
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Cartoonist Thomas Nash created the elephant and donkey symbols for Republican and Democrats respectively in a cartoon for Harper’s Weekly magazine in 1874.
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Socialism was once tried in the United States in the early 19th century. It failed within a few years.
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When President Harry S. Truman visited Disneyland in 1957, he refused to come aboard the popular Dumbo attraction. Truman, a Democrat, didn’t want to be seen riding in the symbol of the Republican Party.
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The Statue of Liberty was gifted to the US by the French on Christmas day in 1886. It weighs 225 tons and thus you could consider it as the biggest Christmas gift in the world
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“Fellow Citizens: I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. When the occasion proper for it shall arrive, I shall endeavor to express the high sense I entertain of this distinguished honor, and of the confidence, which has been reposed in me by the people of united America. Previous to the execution of any official act of the President the Constitution requires an oath of office. This oath I am now about to take, and in your presence: That if it shall be found during my administration of the Government I have in any instance violated willingly or knowingly the injunctions thereof, I may (besides incurring constitutional punishment) be subject to the upbraidings of all who are now witnesses of the present solemn ceremony.” – George Washington, 2nd Inaugural Address.
