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Congress - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
308-11-11 |
The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul. |
1459-06-01 |
Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua |
1515-07-22 |
First Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland & Holy Roman Empire - rise of the Habsburgs influence |
1579-05-07 |
Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands |
1644-12-04 |
1st European peace congress opens in Munster |
1754-06-19 |
Albany Congress held by seven British colonies & Iroquois indians |
1765-10-07 |
Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY |
1765-10-19 |
Stamp Act Congress met in NY, wrote decl of rights & liberties |
1774-05-28 |
1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia) |
1774-09-05 |
1st Continental Congress assembles at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
1774-10-14 |
1st Continental Congress makes Declaration of Colonial Rights in Philadelphia |
1774-10-20 |
Continental Congress orders discouragment of entertainment |
1774-10-26 |
First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia |
1775-05-10 |
2nd Continental Congress convenes in Pa issues paper currency for 1st time |
1775-05-10 |
2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander |
1775-05-17 |
American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Canada. |
1775-05-24 |
John Hancock is unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress |
1775-07-05 |
US Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition. |
1775-07-06 |
Congress issues "Declaration of the Causes & Necessity of Taking up Arms," listing grievances but denying intent to be independent |
1775-10-13 |
Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet |
1775-10-23 |
Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army |
1775-11-10 |
Congress forms US Marine Corps |
1775-11-28 |
2nd Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy |
1776-01-16 |
Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks |
1776-03-25 |
Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington |
1776-06-07 |
Richard Lee (VA) moves Decl of Independence in Continental Congress |
1776-06-11 |
Continental Congress creates committee (Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston) to draft a Declaration of Independence |
1776-06-23 |
Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to Continental Congress |
1776-07-02 |
Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are & of right ought to be Free & Independent States" |
1776-07-02 |
At the Continental Congress, John Dickinson abstains from the votes that declare independence |
1776-07-04 |
According to popular legend the Liberty Bell rings for the 2nd Continental Congress |
1776-07-04 |
US congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain |
1776-09-09 |
Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United Colonies) |
1776-12-23 |
Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France |
1777-06-14 |
Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag |
1777-09-30 |
Continental Congress, flees to York, Pa, as British forces advance |
1777-11-15 |
Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress |
1778-09-19 |
The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States. |
1779-01-18 |
John Dickinson is appointed to be a delegate for Delaware to the Continental Congress |
1779-09-28 |
American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay. |
1780-01-15 |
Continental Congress establishes court of appeals |
1781-03-01 |
Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation |
1781-11-05 |
John Hanson elected first "President of US in Congress assembled" |
1782-02-21 |
US congress resolves establishment of a US mint |
1782-06-20 |
Congress approves Great Seal of US & eagle as it's symbol |
1783-12-23 |
General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to Congress |
1784-01-14 |
US Revolutionary War ends; US Congress of the Confederation ratifies the Treaty of Paris |
1784-08-23 |
Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state & name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it |
1785-01-11 |
Continental Congress convenes in NYC |
1785-07-06 |
Congress unanimously resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage |
1785-11-28 |
The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the Confederation Congress of the United States of America and the Cherokee people |
1786-08-08 |
US Congress adopts silver dollar & decimal system of money |
1787-02-02 |
Arthur St. Clair is elected the 9th President of the President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation. |
1787-07-13 |
Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery) |
1787-09-28 |
Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval |
1789-03-04 |
1st US Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps) |
1789-04-06 |
1st US Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, NYC |
1789-07-27 |
US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs (State dept) |
1789-08-07 |
Congress creates Department of War & Lighthouse Service |
1789-09-02 |
US Treasury Department established by Congress |
1789-09-18 |
1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress |
1789-09-24 |
US Congress establishes Post Office Department following the new constitution |
1789-09-25 |
US Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify) |
1789-09-29 |
1st congress adjourns |
1790-02-11 |
Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery |
1790-03-26 |
US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency |
1790-05-26 |
Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress |
1790-07-16 |
US Congress establishes District of Columbia |
1790-12-06 |
The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
1791-03-03 |
Congress establishes US Mint |
1791-03-04 |
1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office |
1792-02-21 |
US Congress passes Presidential Succession Act |
1794-01-13 |
Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes |
1794-03-22 |
Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries |
1794-06-04 |
Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers |
1794-06-05 |
US Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces |
1797-01-30 |
Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks |
1798-07-07 |
Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.' |
1798-07-11 |
US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress |
1798-11-16 |
Kentucky becomes first state to nullify an act of Congress |
1799-02-25 |
Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation |
1799-03-02 |
Congress standardizes US weights & measures |
1800-01-02 |
Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave |
1800-04-24 |
Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation |
1800-11-17 |
Congress held 1st session in Wash DC in incompleted Capitol building |
1802-01-26 |
Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library |
1802-01-29 |
John Beckley of Virginia appointed first Librarian of Congress |
1803-02-14 |
Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress that conflicts with the Constitution is void. |
1803-02-19 |
Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953 |
1804-03-26 |
Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana |
1807-02-10 |
US Coast Survey authorized by Congress |
1807-03-02 |
Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808 |
1807-12-22 |
Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France |
1808-01-01 |
Congress prohibits importation of slaves |
1812-03-14 |
Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812 |
1813-02-27 |
Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail |
1813-11-06 |
Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain |
1814-08-25 |
British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books (War of 1812) |
1814-10-01 |
Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon Bonaparte the previous spring. |
1814-11-01 |
Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars. |
1815-01-30 |
Burned US Library of Congress reestablished with Thomas Jefferson's 6500 vols |
1815-06-09 |
End of the Congress of Vienna: New European political situation is set. |
1815-11-27 |
City of Kraków (Poland) declared a free republic state by the Congress of Vienna |
1818-03-18 |
Congress approves 1st pensions for government service |
1818-04-04 |
Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars |
1818-09-30 |
Congress of Aken: Russia, Austria, Prussia, France & England |
1818-10-09 |
Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya |
1819-12-17 |
Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain |
1822-03-30 |
Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory |
1822-12-02 |
In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US |
1824-02-10 |
Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru |
1825-01-27 |
U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears." |
1826-03-14 |
General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama |
1830-05-28 |
US Congress authorizes native Indian removal from all states to western prairie |
1831-06-04 |
National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium |
1834-06-30 |
Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) |
1835-03-03 |
Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans Louisiana |
1836-04-14 |
Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin |
1836-07-01 |
US President Andrew Jackson announces to Congress bequest by James Smithson of 100,000 gold sovereigns to found institution in Washington. |
1837-03-03 |
Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9 |
1837-03-03 |
US President Andrew Jackson & Congress recognizes Republic of Texas |
1839-02-20 |
Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia |
1842-08-31 |
US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress |
1843-03-03 |
Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US |
1845-03-03 |
Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery |
1845-07-04 |
Texas Congress votes for annexation to US |
1845-12-02 |
Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. |
1846-07-09 |
The territory of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia through an Act of Congress. |
1846-08-10 |
US Act of Congress passes establishing the Smithsonian Institution, now world's largest museum and research complex |
1848-06-02 |
The Slavic congress in Prague begins. |
1849-03-03 |
US Home Department (later renamed the Department of the Interior) established by Congress |
1850-09-18 |
Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850 |
1851-03-03 |
Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece) |
1851-12-24 |
Fire devastates US Library of Congress in Washington, destroys 35,000 volumes |
1852-07-03 |
Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, California) |
1853-03-03 |
Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress |
1855-03-03 |
US Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use |
1855-03-03 |
US Congress authorizes registered mail |
1857-02-21 |
Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US |
1860-03-12 |
Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists |
1860-06-23 |
Congress establishes Government Printing Office |
1861-02-05 |
Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress (US Civil War) |
1861-02-06 |
1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America (US Civil War) |
1861-02-09 |
Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states (US Civil War) |
1861-02-27 |
US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing |
1861-03-06 |
Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army |
1861-07-04 |
In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops |
1861-07-17 |
US Congress authorizes paper money |
1861-07-20 |
Confederate states' congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Va |
1861-08-06 |
US Congress passes First Confiscation Act |
1861-08-19 |
Confederacy Congress allies with government of MO |
1861-11-28 |
Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederacy |
1861-12-09 |
American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress. |
1862-02-25 |
Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving & Printing |
1862-03-08 |
Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, VA CSS Virginia, Jamestown & Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress & Monitor |
1862-04-16 |
American Confederate Congress approves conscription act for all white males (18-35 years) |
1862-04-21 |
Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co |
1862-07-01 |
Congress outlaws polygamy for the 1st time |
1862-07-12 |
Congress authorizes Medal of Honor |
1862-09-24 |
Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal |
1863-02-25 |
Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency |
1863-03-03 |
US Congress authorizes track width of 4'8½" for Union Pacific Railroad |
1863-03-03 |
Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City, Nevada |
1863-03-03 |
Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress |
1863-05-01 |
Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers |
1864-06-15 |
US Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers |
1864-11-07 |
2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes |
1865-01-31 |
Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24) |
1865-03-04 |
Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag" |
1865-03-13 |
US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service |
1865-03-18 |
Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time |
1866-03-21 |
US Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes |
1866-04-01 |
US Congress rejects presidential veto giveing all equal rights in US |
1866-05-16 |
US Congress authorizes the nickel 5 cent piece (replaces silver half-dime) |
1867-03-02 |
1st Reconstruction act passed by US Congress |
1867-03-02 |
US Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico |
1867-03-02 |
US Congress created the Department of Education |
1867-03-02 |
US Congress creates the Department of Education |
1867-03-23 |
Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
1867-03-29 |
Congress first approves building of Lincoln Memorial |
1867-07-19 |
US Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
1867-08-12 |
US President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton |
1867-09-25 |
Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Wash DC |
1867-11-25 |
US Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson |
1868-03-12 |
US Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax |
1868-07-25 |
US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho) |
1868-10-30 |
John Menard of Louisiana is 1st African American elected to US Congress |
1869-01-20 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before US Congress |
1869-02-27 |
John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress |
1869-04-10 |
Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9 |
1870-02-25 |
Hiram R. Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-R-MS) |
1870-05-31 |
Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks) |
1870-06-22 |
US Congress creates Department of Justice |
1870-07-08 |
US Congress authorizes registration of trademarks |
1870-07-14 |
The United States Congress grants Mary Todd Lincoln a life pension in the amount of $3,000 a year |
1871-02-09 |
Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress |
1871-03-03 |
US Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent |
1871-03-03 |
US Congress establishes the civil service system |
1872-06-08 |
Congress endorses penny post card |
1873-01-06 |
US Congress begins investigating Crédit Mobilier scandal |
1873-02-12 |
Congress abolishes bimetallism & authorizes $1 & $3 gold coins |
1873-03-03 |
US Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps |
1873-03-03 |
US Congress & government raise own salary, retroactively |
1873-03-03 |
Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. |
1874-09-03 |
The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez". |
1875-03-01 |
Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Ct, 1883 |
1875-03-03 |
Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years |
1875-12-06 |
44th Congress (1875-77) convenes |
1876-03-04 |
US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap |
1877-01-25 |
Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden |
1877-09-22 |
Rudolf Virchow delivers an anti-Darwinian speech to the Congress of German Naturalist and Physicians, Munich where he spoke against the teaching of the theory of evolution in schools |
1877-10-15 |
45th Congress (1877-79) convenes |
1878-02-28 |
US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate |
1878-05-31 |
US Congress accepts decrease in dollar circulation |
1878-06-11 |
DC is given a new government by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change in 1974) |
1878-06-13 |
Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization |
1878-07-13 |
Congress of Berlin discussing division of African colonies ends |
1879-02-15 |
Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Ct |
1879-02-25 |
Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act |
1881-12-05 |
47th Congress (1881-83) convenes |
1882-05-06 |
Chinese Exclusion Act: US Congress ceases Chinese immigration |
1882-08-03 |
Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration |
1882-09-10 |
1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) |
1883-03-03 |
Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy |
1883-12-03 |
48th US Congress (1883-85) convenes |
1884-07-05 |
US Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act |
1885-02-25 |
US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds |
1885-02-26 |
Congress of Berlin; gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to Great Britain |
1885-03-03 |
Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed government) |
1885-12-07 |
49th Congress (1885-87) convenes |
1887-02-03 |
To avoid disputed natl elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act |
1887-02-23 |
Congress grants Seal Rocks to SF |
1888-06-13 |
US Congress creates Department of Labor |
1889-05-01 |
2nd International Congress calls for 1st International Workers Day 1st May 1890 to mark protests in Chicago in 1886 |
1890-07-02 |
Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act |
1890-09-25 |
Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California) |
1890-10-01 |
Congress creates Weather Bureau |
1891-03-03 |
Congress creates US Courts of Appeal |
1891-03-03 |
Congress creates Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) |
1891-12-02 |
52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes |
1891-12-07 |
52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session |
1893-01-06 |
The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. |
1893-02-24 |
The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America. |
1893-03-03 |
Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Dept of Agriculture |
1893-08-07 |
53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes |
1894-08-18 |
Congress creates Bureau of Immigration |
1894-08-22 |
Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal |
1894-08-27 |
Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court |
1895-02-20 |
Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo |
1895-09-05 |
George Washington Murray elected to Congress from SC |
1895-09-09 |
American Bowling Congress forms (NYC) |
1895-12-02 |
54th Congress (1895-97) convenes |
1898-04-21 |
Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date. |
1898-04-22 |
Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry |
1899-01-28 |
American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress |
1899-02-14 |
US Congress begins using voting machines |
1899-03-03 |
Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar |
1899-12-04 |
56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes |
1900-02-27 |
In London, the Trade Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party (formed in 1893) meet, resulting in a Labour Representative Committee and eventually the modern Labour Party in 1906 |
1900-03-14 |
US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act |
1900-04-12 |
The US Congress passes the Foraker Act, establishing Puerto Rico as an unincorporated territory (effective 1 May) |
1900-06-06 |
US Congress pass an act authorizing a civil code and government for the territory of Alaska after gold discoveries bring lawlessness and disorder to the area |
1900-07-23 |
Pan-African Congress meets in London |
1901-02-02 |
The US Congress passes the Army Reorganization Act, placing the minimum number of men under arms at 58,000 |
1901-03-02 |
The United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops. |
1901-03-03 |
Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce |
1901-12-31 |
In the first election under their new constitution, Cuba elects a Congress and their first president, Tomas Estrada Palma |
1902-04-29 |
Congress extends the Chinese Exclusion Act (of 1882) prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers from territories to the mainland, a rule clearly aimed at Chinese in the Philippines |
1902-06-17 |
US Congress pass the New Lands Reclamation Act, which establishes a fund from sale of public lands to build irrigation dams for arid Western lands |
1902-06-28 |
Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin |
1902-07-01 |
US Congress passes the Philippines Government Act, providing that the Philippines be governed by a commission appointed by the President, with consent from the senate; Filipinos are to be treated as citizens of their land, no the USA |
1903-02-11 |
US Congress adopts the Expedition Act, which authorizes the Attorney General to 'expedite' anti-trust cases through the courts, reflecting growing popular support for President Roosevelt's 'trust busting' campaign |
1904-04-13 |
Congress authorizes Lewis & Clark Expo $1 gold coin |
1906-06-29 |
US Congress pass the Hepburn Act, permitting the regulation of rates charged by railroads, pipelines, and terminals engaged in interstate commerce |
1906-06-30 |
US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' in particular) |
1907-02-26 |
US Congress raised their own salaries to $7,500 |
1907-12-07 |
The First Egyptian Nationalist Congress meets under the leadership of Mustafa Kamil Pasha |
1908-06-15 |
World congress for Women's rights opens in Amsterdam |
1909-04-09 |
The US Congress pass the Payne-Aldrich bill, raising certain tariffs on goods entering the United States |
1910-01-19 |
National Institute of Arts & Letters incorporated by Congress |
1910-07-04 |
The US Congress pass the Mann-Elkins Act, an important piece of railroad reform legislation |
1910-08-14 |
6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC |
1910-11-08 |
For the first time since 1894, the US elects a Democratic Congress, including the first socialist ever to sit in Congress, Victor L Berger of Milwaukee |
1911-01-31 |
Congress names SF as Panama Canal opening celebration site |
1911-04-13 |
The US House of Representatives votes to institute direct elections of senators to Congress, a step towards direct democracy |
1912-01-08 |
Chiefs, representatives of people's and church organisations, and other prominent individuals form the African National Congress and declare its aim to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms |
1913-03-10 |
William Knox becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300 |
1913-07-25 |
A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress, now African National Congress, is attended by a large number of people from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland |
1913-10-19 |
At a meeting of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in Durban, NIC secretaries, M. C. Anglia and Dada Osman, severely criticise Mahatma Gandhi and tender their resignations |
1914-02-04 |
US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law |
1914-04-20 |
US President W Wilson, having dispatched more naval ships to Mexico, asks a joint session of Congress to approve armed force if necessary; Congress approves |
1914-05-07 |
US Congress establishes mother's day |
1915-01-16 |
Congress authorizes $1 & $50 Panama-Pacific Intl Expo gold coin |
1916-02-23 |
Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin |
1916-06-17 |
1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java |
1916-07-11 |
Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act |
1916-08-29 |
Congress creates US Naval Reserve |
1916-08-29 |
US Congress accept Jones Act: Philippines independence |
1916-09-07 |
Workmen's Compensation Act passed by Congress |
1916-11-07 |
Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) elected to Congress as its first woman Representative |
1917-02-05 |
Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration |
1917-03-03 |
US Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations |
1917-04-02 |
US President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany |
1917-06-16 |
1st All Russian Congress of the Soviets convenes in Petrograd, Russia [OS Jun 3] |
1917-10-25 |
Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd |
1918-03-19 |
US Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time |
1918-05-16 |
The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense. |
1918-07-09 |
Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal |
1918-12-15 |
American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting |
1919-01-18 |
WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France |
1919-02-19 |
Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois (Paris) |
1919-02-26 |
Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona |
1919-03-02 |
1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin |
1919-09-04 |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace. |
1919-09-16 |
American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress |
1919-10-27 |
US Congress sign Volstead Act |
1919-10-28 |
Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Wilson's veto |
1921-03-06 |
The Natal Indian Congress is resuscitated and reorganised at a meeting in Durban, with Ismail Gora as President |
1921-05-19 |
Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system |
1921-08-28 |
2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris) |
1922-02-22 |
Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin |
1922-09-24 |
Nuremberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky |
1922-12-15 |
IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague |
1923-05-31 |
The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) forms in Durban, South Africa, with Omar Hajee Amod Jhaveri as President. |
1923-08-13 |
Turkish National Congress selects Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Pasja as president |
1924-01-27 |
The Natal Indian Congress and the Natal Indian Association jointly organise a mass meeting in Durban, South Africa in opposition to the Class Areas Bill |
1924-02-15 |
A deputation for the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets with the Minister of the Interior, Sir Patrick Duncan, and presents him with a memorandum setting out their objections concerning the Class Areas Bill |
1924-10-31 |
World Savings Day was announced in Milan, Italy, by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks). |
1925-02-12 |
1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress |
1925-02-13 |
US Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult |
1925-02-28 |
Congress authorizes a special handling stamp |
1925-03-07 |
American Negro Congress organizes |
1925-12-31 |
14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry |
1926-05-20 |
Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots & planes |
1926-05-28 |
US Customs Court created by congress |
1926-10-03 |
1st congress of Pan European Movement (Pan-Europese Beweging) opens in Vienna |
1926-11-03 |
15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins |
1927-08-21 |
4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC) |
1927-12-27 |
Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled |
1928-05-22 |
US Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act |
1929-01-26 |
Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence |
1929-03-02 |
Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals |
1929-10-07 |
Ramsay MacDonald is first British premier to address US Congress |
1930-02-10 |
Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress |
1930-03-26 |
Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway |
1931-02-20 |
Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge |
1932-05-01 |
1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo |
1932-05-17 |
US Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico" |
1932-08-27 |
International anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam |
1933-01-12 |
US Congress recognize independence Philippines |
1933-03-09 |
Congress is called into special session by FDR, & began its "100 days" |
1933-03-31 |
Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps |
1933-07-12 |
Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour) |
1933-08-22 |
International Zionists Congress opens in Prague |
1934-02-10 |
Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier" |
1934-03-16 |
Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act |
1934-03-23 |
US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945 |
1934-03-24 |
U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, declaring the Philippines independent after a period of 10 years |
1934-04-13 |
US Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act |
1934-05-18 |
Congress approves "Lindbergh Act" making kidnapping a capital offense |
1935-04-08 |
Works Progress Administration approved by Congress |
1935-04-30 |
World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul |
1935-06-16 |
US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal" |
1935-06-30 |
The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress. |
1935-11-09 |
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms |
1935-11-24 |
The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress. |
1936-02-08 |
Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party |
1936-02-14 |
National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago |
1937-03-24 |
National Gallery of Art established by Congress |
1938-03-03 |
American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors) |
1938-05-17 |
US Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy |
1938-11-18 |
Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. |
1938-11-24 |
National Semi-Pro Basketball Congress authorizes yellow basketball |
1939-06-23 |
US Congress establishes US Coast Guard Reserve (renamed US Coast Guard Auxiliary 1941) as uniformed volunteer units supporting the Coast Guard |
1940-09-14 |
Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law) |
1941-12-08 |
President Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbour |
1941-12-26 |
Winston Churchill becomes 1st British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing" |
1942-02-08 |
Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort |
1942-07-20 |
Legion of Merit Medal authorized by US congress |
1942-08-09 |
Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress |
1942-11-03 |
William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago |
1943-06-15 |
Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms |
1943-06-20 |
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded |
1943-06-20 |
National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes |
1944-06-20 |
Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency |
1944-12-14 |
Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General) |
1944-12-15 |
US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star |
1945-12-28 |
Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance" |
1947-01-03 |
1st opening session of Congress to be televised |
1947-03-24 |
Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency |
1947-06-23 |
US President Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by Congress |
1948-02-02 |
President Harry Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program |
1948-03-27 |
The Second Congress of the Workers' Party of North Korea is convened. |
1948-03-31 |
Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe |
1948-09-13 |
Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress |
1948-12-01 |
Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan as King of Palestine |
1950-08-01 |
American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule |
1950-09-30 |
1st congress of International Astronautical Federation opens in Paris |
1951-04-07 |
American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament |
1951-07-09 |
US President Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end state of war with Germany |
1952-01-21 |
Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India |
1952-04-03 |
Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress |
1952-04-25 |
American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter |
1952-07-03 |
Puerto Rico's constitution approved by US Congress |
1952-10-05 |
19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow |
1953-01-03 |
Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress. |
1953-06-03 |
Congress cites research of NYC librarian Robert Henderson in proving |
1953-06-03 |
Alexander Cartwright officially credited by U.S. Congress as founder of baseball |
1954-06-22 |
Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands |
1954-09-20 |
1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution |
1955-07-11 |
Congress authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust" |
1955-07-28 |
The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France. |
1955-12-05 |
The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO. |
1956-02-14 |
20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow |
1956-02-23 |
20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow |
1957-01-05 |
Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East |
1957-01-30 |
US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine" |
1957-02-23 |
The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar. |
1957-04-15 |
Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery |
1957-04-15 |
Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress givs PO $41 million |
1957-08-29 |
Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
1958-03-14 |
South Africa government prohibits the African National Congress |
1958-07-25 |
The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou. |
1959-07-28 |
Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress |
1959-07-29 |
First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union. |
1959-09-11 |
Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans |
1959-10-12 |
At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde. |
1960-02-08 |
Congress opens hearings looking into payola |
1961-02-27 |
The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated. |
1961-10-17 |
22nd congress of CPSU opens in Moscow |
1961-10-30 |
Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square |
1962-02-25 |
India Congress Party wins elections |
1963-06-25 |
Curnick Ndlovu, South African Trade Unionist and African National Congress Leader, is arrested |
1963-12-30 |
Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar |
1964-05-28 |
Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem |
1964-08-07 |
US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution |
1965-03-15 |
LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote |
1965-07-03 |
Harold Strachan, member of the Communist Party of South Africa and Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, is served with a restriction order in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act |
1966-09-15 |
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation. |
1967-03-12 |
Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority |
1967-04-11 |
Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress & reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr |
1967-11-14 |
The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman". |
1968-03-18 |
Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve |
1968-04-27 |
Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands |
1968-08-22 |
1st papal visit to Latin America, Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota to open a Eucharistic congress. |
1969-01-03 |
Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress |
1969-01-07 |
US Congress doubles president salary |
1969-02-04 |
The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat chairman of the PLO |
1970-08-13 |
Pamphlet bombs which scatter revolutionary African National Congress propaganda leaflets explode in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
1970-12-31 |
Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin |
1971-06-22 |
a Pretoria court rules that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, will not be allowed to use his exit permit to leave South Africa for his studies in the United States. |
1971-10-20 |
Senator in the US Congress Edward Kennedy calls for a withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and all-party negotiations to establish a United Ireland |
1972-03-22 |
Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified) |
1972-07-12 |
Twelve years after the banning of the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress, a new political movement, the Black People Convention is formed after a three day long conference in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |
1973-09-13 |
Congress passes & sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout |
1973-10-18 |
Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin |
1974-02-05 |
John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States. |
1974-08-14 |
Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold |
1974-11-21 |
Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over Pres Ford's veto |
1974-12-28 |
Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress. |
1975-12-23 |
Congress passes Metric Conversion Act |
1976-02-24 |
Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU |
1976-09-28 |
US Congress passes Toxic Substances Control Act |
1977-08-09 |
The military-controlled Government of Uruguay announces that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections in 1981 for a President and Congress. |
1978-10-10 |
US Congress approves Dollar coin honoring women's suffrage campaigner Susan B. Anthony |
1979-09-27 |
US Congress' final approval to create Dept of Education |
1980-01-06 |
Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India |
1980-03-01 |
The US enacts the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act as part of a compromise between the Carter Administration and the Congress over the decontrol of crude oil prices |
1980-09-25 |
The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul. |
1980-12-11 |
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (known as either CERCLA or Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress. |
1981-10-22 |
The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins. |
1982-04-21 |
Dutch Queen Beatrice addresses US Congress |
1983-01-02 |
Several African National Congress(ANC) members detained in Swaziland decide to leave the country voluntarily for Mozambique. |
1983-02-24 |
A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II. |
1983-05-27 |
Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress |
1983-06-23 |
US Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions |
1983-09-29 |
1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act |
1983-09-29 |
Congress authorized President Reagan to keep 1,600 US Marines in Lebanon |
1984-06-28 |
Former member of South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), Jeannette Schoon, and her six-year old daughter, Katryn, are killed by a letter bomb at Lubango, in northern Angola |
1984-12-28 |
Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India |
1985-08-14 |
Political violence by the youth begins after the funeral of assassinated Victoria Mxenge, a civil rights lawyer, who was respected and liked by the Congress of South African Students |
1985-12-10 |
Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress |
1986-06-24 |
In Britain, Foreign Office Minister Lynda Chalker, meets Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress to discuss means of ending Apartheid without violence |
1986-09-23 |
Congress selects the rose as US national flower |
1986-12-17 |
US Congress forms "Irangate" committee |
1987-01-06 |
100th US Congress convenes |
1987-02-04 |
Pres Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress |
1987-05-05 |
Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings |
1988-03-22 |
Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill |
1988-03-29 |
US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras |
1988-08-04 |
Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II |
1989-02-14 |
African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam |
1989-06-29 |
The National Party adopts a five year programme of its objectives which included a political "reform" plan to give South Africa's Black majority a role in national as well as local government spheres; the African National Congress (ANC) said that it would consider nothing less than a one-man, one-vote system |
1989-07-16 |
South Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, holds its third annual congress and intensifies its campaign against apartheid |
1989-09-15 |
The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson's continued captivity in Beirut. |
1989-11-04 |
The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party. |
1990-01-18 |
South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress |
1990-03-14 |
Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress |
1990-05-02 |
South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid |
1990-06-11 |
Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress |
1990-06-23 |
African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, on a US tour, receives a tumultuous welcome in Boston. |
1990-06-25 |
African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets with President George Bush at the White House |
1990-08-15 |
At least 150 people die in clashes between the African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party, South Africa |
1990-12-31 |
United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace |
1991-01-10 |
US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis |
1991-01-11 |
Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq |
1991-01-12 |
US Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq |
1991-03-06 |
Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over" |
1991-04-12 |
Nepalese Congress party wins general elections |
1991-04-18 |
Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike |
1991-05-16 |
Queen Elizabeth II becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress |
1991-06-26 |
ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress |
1991-09-05 |
Nelson Mandela chosen as president of African National Congress |
1992-04-05 |
Peru's Pres Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution & dissolved Congress |
1992-05-19 |
27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary |
1992-07-13 |
The Tripartite Alliance, consisting of the African National Congress, South African Communist Party and Congress of South African Trade Union, outlines a mass action plan for August |
1992-08-23 |
Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress |
1993-08-13 |
US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail |
1994-09-29 |
House votes to end lobbyists buying meals & entertainment for Congress |
1995-03-12 |
Congress party loses India national election |
1995-07-06 |
Venezuela's Congress approves the country's first investment law allowing for foreign participation in oil exploration and production |
1995-12-12 |
Israeli PM Shimon Peres address both house of US congress |
1996-02-01 |
The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress. |
1996-02-08 |
The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act. |
1996-06-20 |
The Venezuelan Congress approves deals which allow foreign oil companies to explore and produce oil in Venezuela for the first time since the country's 1975 nationalization of the oil industry |
1998-09-11 |
Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses. |
1999-04-08 |
Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress. |
2001-09-20 |
In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror". |
2002-06-11 |
Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress. |
2002-06-28 |
In South Africa, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Treatment Action Campaign table a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the National Economic, Development and Labour Council |
2002-11-04 |
Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress |
2003-08-16 |
U.S. Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress. |
2003-11-18 |
The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the party into Kanu Sanyal's CPI(ML). |
2005-04-07 |
The Head of government of the Federal District, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, faces an impeachment process at the Mexican Congress. |
2007-01-04 |
The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history. |
2014-05-10 |
The African National Congress wins the 2014 South African General Election |
2016-01-30 |
Liz Cheney running for Congress in Wyoming |
2016-04-13 |
US Congress sends Obama bill incentivizing Zika drug development |
2016-04-17 |
Congress to vote on impeaching Rousseff in divided Brazil |
2016-04-27 |
North Korea to stage first party congress in nearly 40 years |
2017-01-11 |
Trump Tells Congress to Repeal and Replace Health Care Law 'Very Quickly' |
2017-03-02 |
47 Million Viewers Watched Trump's First Address to Congress |
2017-03-31 |
Michael Flynn Offers to Testify Before Congress in Exchange for Immunity |
2017-12-12 |
Trump accusers call for Congress to investigate sexual harassment allegations against him |
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Congress - Notable Birthdays
Congress - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1714-09-19 |
Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1786) |
1723-04-20 |
Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1781) |
1731-07-03 |
Samuel Huntington, (Gov-Ct), Continental Congress pres |
1735-04-13 |
Isaac Low, delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1791) |
1833-01-21 |
Norman Willis, union leader (Britain's Trades Union Congress) |
1847-10-01 |
Annie Besant, Congress Session in Bombay |
1848-12-15 |
Edwin Howland Blashfield, decorated the dome of Library of Congress |
1849-09-01 |
Elizabeth Harrison, US, educator (Natl Congress of Parents & Teachers) |
1861-09-20 |
Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955) |
1872-11-05 |
Norbert Falk, Congress Dances |
1875-10-31 |
Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Congress Session in Bombay |
1876-12-25 |
Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Congress Session in Bombay |
1879-02-13 |
Sarojini Naidu, Congress Session in Bombay |
1880-06-11 |
Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to US Congress (Rep-Montana) |
1886-05-25 |
Philip Murray, founded Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) |
1888-12-07 |
Hamilton Fish, US congress leader/isolationist |
1889-02-21 |
Otto Wallburg, Congress Dances |
1890-06-03 |
Baburao Painter, Congress Session in Bombay |
1891-03-22 |
Boris Romanoff, Congress Dances |
1895-06-22 |
James Arthur Calata, Anglican clergyman and African National Congress (ANC) leader, Rabula, Keiskammahoek, Eastern Cape. |
1895-07-22 |
James Arthur Calata, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman |
1896-02-29 |
Morarji Desai, Congress Session in Bombay |
1902-04-03 |
Henri Garat, Paris France, actor (Congress Dances) |
1908-11-20 |
Alistair Cooke, The Congress |
1909-09-12 |
Donald MacDonald, O.C., LL.D. former president of the Canadian Labour Congress and politician (d.1986) |
1913-09-10 |
Zeph[ania L] Mothopeng, pres South Afr Pan-African Congress (1986- ) |
1917-10-27 |
Oliver Tambo, co-founder (African National Congress) |
1918-08-03 |
James MacGregor Burns, The Congress |
1920-07-04 |
John Garraty, The Congress |
1923-03-17 |
Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairman (Trades Union Congress) |
1926-06-24 |
Charles McDowell, The Congress |
1929-03-06 |
Tom Foley, Spokane, WA, politician (congress, 1965-1995, speaker of the house, 1989-1995), (d. 2013) |
1929-11-05 |
Hal Youngblood, Davy Crockett Goes to Congress |
1929-9-11 |
David Broder, The Congress |
1930-12-16 |
Bill Young, Harmarville, PA, politician (Congress, 1993-2013), (d. 2013) |
1933-07-07 |
David McCullough, The Congress |
1938-03-12 |
Jessy Dixon, Paul Simon: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song |
1940-02-22 |
Johnson P Mlambo, South African leader (Pan-African Congress) |
1942-01-01 |
Martin Frost, The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress |
1948-10-10 |
David Tereshchuk, Spear of the Nation: The Story of the African National Congress |
1958-01-07 |
Peter R Mokaba, president (South African Youth Congress) |
1958-01-13 |
Terry Keel, The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress |
1960-10-31 |
Luis Fortuño, Puerto Rican delegate to Congress |
1969-05-22 |
Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Japanese Prime Minister Address to Joint Meeting of Congress |
1975-05-04 |
Michal Englert, The Congress |
1980-02-04 |
Luciano Vittori Jr., The Congress |
1986-07-05 |
Joe Hallisy, Sid Smith for Congress |
1990-08-12 |
Nikki Yee, The Congress of Vienna |
1993-04-13 |
Jeffrey Nham, The Congress of Vienna |
Congress - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1775-10-21 |
Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721) |
1781-04-28 |
Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723) |
1784-06-13 |
Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717) |
1786-03-11 |
Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1714) |
1790-05-04 |
Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1718) |
1790-05-09 |
William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress |
1792-05-10 |
John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress |
1801-11-04 |
William Shippen, American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1712) |
1821-10-24 |
Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740) |
1921-08-10 |
John M Martin, last confederate congress member, dies |
1932-09-16 |
Norbert Falk, Congress Dances |
1933-09-20 |
Annie Besant, Congress Session in Bombay |
1944-10-29 |
Otto Wallburg, Congress Dances |
1948-09-11 |
Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Congress Session in Bombay |
1949-02-01 |
Sarojini Naidu, Congress Session in Bombay |
1950-12-15 |
Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Congress Session in Bombay |
1951-01-18 |
Robert Mark, US chairman (Caste World Congress), dies at 41 |
1952-11-09 |
Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886) |
1954-01-16 |
Baburao Painter, Congress Session in Bombay |
1955-08-14 |
Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861) |
1957-01-30 |
Boris Romanoff, Congress Dances |
1959-08-13 |
Henry Garat, actor (Congress Dances), dies at 57 |
1968-07-26 |
Lilian Harvey, British actress (Congress Dances), dies |
1969-06-11 |
John L Lewis, formed (Congress of Industrial Org), dies at 89 |
1983-06-16 |
James Arthur Calata, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman, at 87 |
1988-09-21 |
Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914 |
1993-04-24 |
Oliver R Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75 |
1995-04-10 |
Morarji Desai, Congress Session in Bombay |
1995-04-23 |
John C. Stennis, The Congress |
1998-03-02 |
Henry Steele Commager, Memory & Imagination: New Pathways to the Library of Congress |
2004-02-28 |
Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914) |
2004-03-30 |
Alistair Cooke, The Congress |
2007-01-24 |
Hal Youngblood, Davy Crockett Goes to Congress |
2007-12-19 |
John Garraty, The Congress |
2010-11-05 |
Charles McDowell, The Congress |
2011-03-09 |
David Broder, The Congress |
2011-09-26 |
Jessy Dixon, Paul Simon: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song |
2014-07-15 |
James MacGregor Burns, The Congress |
2018-04-07 |
Daniel Akaka, First Native Hawaiian in Congress, Dies at 93 |
