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2019 – All the works published in 1923 except for sound recordings (2022 scheduled events) enter the public domain in the United States. January 1, 2019 – Washington bans all persons under 21 years of age from purchasing a semi-automatic rifle .
August 20–21 – The Great Fire of 1910 wildfire burns about 3 million acres (12,000 km 2) in northeast Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana over 2 days and kills 86 people (believed to be the largest fire in recorded United States history).
Bowe Bergdahl, a United States Army soldier who was being held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan since June 2009, is released back to the United States, traded for five Guantanamo Bay detainees. Many critics believe the handover was illegal.
Based on birth rates (per 1,000 population), the post-war baby boom ends in the United States as an 11-year decline in the birth rate begins (the longest on record in the country). The United Kingdom, Soviet Union and the U.S. agree to stop testing atomic bombs for 3 years.
Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past. Secondary sources, primary sources and material evidence such as that derived from archaeology may all be drawn on, and the historian's skill lies in identifying these sources, evaluating their relative authority, and combining their testimony appropriately in order ...
March 4, 1825 – Adams becomes the sixth president; Calhoun becomes the seventh vice president; 1825 – Erie Canal is finally completed 1826 – Former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the same day, which happens to be on the fiftieth anniversary of the approval of the Declaration of independence.
The USS Arizona, aflame and sinking, on December 7, 1941. 1940 – Selective Service Act, establishing the first peacetime draft in U.S. history 1940 – Alien Registration (Smith) Act
1913 – Federal Reserve Act was passed by the 63rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913. Federal_Reserve_Act 1913 – Henry Ford develops the modern assembly line