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Roosevelt leaves the country on official business, the first sitting President to do so

He is going to see the Panama Canal for himself, and Edith Roosevelt is traveling with him.

Two years after his administration took over the unfinished French canal project in Panama, Theodore Roosevelt wanted to see the work with his own eyes. On November 9, 1906, his trip to inspect construction made him the first sitting President of the United States to make an official journey outside the country. No president before him had left American soil while in office. The party was due in Panama on November 14…

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NORAD screens show a massive Soviet strike; satellite and radar checks find no attack

A test tape is running as though it were real, and the warnings reach two continuity of government bunkers and command posts around the world.

1967

The first Saturn V leaves Florida with no crew aboard; the shock rattles the control center ceiling

Ten months after the Apollo 1 fire, NASA flies every stage and the spacecraft together on the very first try.

1862

McClellan says farewell to his troops; Burnside takes the Army of the Potomac

The handover happens in front of the Claggett farmhouse in New Baltimore, Virginia, two days after Lincoln settled on a more aggressive general.

18871776 Club

Eleven days after King Kalākaua signs, Washington holds a legal claim to a coaling and repair station on the shallow lagoon Hawaiians call Wai Momi.

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San Francisco orders Japanese and Korean pupils into the city's "Oriental School"

Tokyo's newspapers call it an insult to national honor, and Washington takes notice.

1901

Roosevelt makes it official: the Executive Mansion is now the White House

An executive order settles a name the public had already used for ninety years.

1898

Spain's flag comes down in San Juan; the United States takes Puerto Rico

Four centuries of Spanish rule end quietly, ten weeks after the armistice that ended the war.

1879

Edison's thread-filament bulb glows for thirteen and a half hours before it dies

A length of carbonized cotton thread, sealed in glass, outlasts every filament Edison had tried before it.

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