by qdmhistory | Feb 24, 2022 | Popular
February 24, 1868. The Civil War had been over for a few years, and the Reconstruction wasn’t going well. Lincoln had been assassinated and replaced with Andrew Johnson, a Southern Democrat with a strong sympathy for the Confederate rebels. The Northern...
by qdmhistory | Feb 23, 2022 | Popular
On February 23, 1945, one of the most iconic battles in the history of the U.S. Marines reached a turning point in a moment that has since become one of the most recognized moments of World War II. When the battle began just four days earlier, everything seemed like...
by qdmhistory | Feb 22, 2022 | Popular
On February 22, 1825, Russia and Britain signed a treaty that formally established the Alaska-Canada boundary. The treaty, known as the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1825 or the Treaty of Saint Petersburg, defined the boundaries of the colonial lands under the control...
by qdmhistory | Feb 21, 2022 | Popular
February 21, 1972, was the start of the week that changed the world, as President Richard Nixon put it. He called it that because it was the start of his eight-day visit to communist China, something that no U.S. president had done since the founding of the...
by qdmhistory | Feb 20, 2022 | Popular
On February 20, 1792, George Washington signed the Postal Service Act, creating the Post Office that still delivers the mail today. Prior to that, there had been a sort of ad hoc colonial postal service with little organization. It didn’t really work that well....
