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Libraries - Library of Congress

Time: Friday Apr 25, 1800

Place: Washington D.C., U.S.

Details: The Library of Congress was established on 24 April 1800, when president John Adams signed an act of Congress providing for the transfer of the seat of government from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington.

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Library of Congress-From the Capitol building to its new headquarters
1897 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Billington established the Library Collections Security Oversight Committee
1992 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Lost 300
2008 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Harry Truman appointed Luther H. Evans as librarian of Congress
1944 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-The Veterans History Project
2000 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Lawrence Quincy Mumford took over
1953 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-John Russell Young in the office
1897 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-The 14th librarian of Congress
Wednesday Sep 14, 2016 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Herbert Putnam persuaded President Theodore Roosevelt to transfer by executive order the papers of the Founding Fathers from the State Department to the Library of Congress
1903 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-President Ronald Reagan nominated James H. Billington as the 13th librarian of Congress
1987 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Memorandum by Douglas Bryant
1962 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Schatz collection of early opera librettos
1908 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-The World Digital Library
2009 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Open World Leadership Center
2000 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Putnam retired in 1939
1939 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Preservation Office
1967 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-The new Thomas Jefferson Building
1865 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Living Legend Awards
2000 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Roosevelt appointed Archibald MacLeish
1939 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Librarian-in-Residence program
2017 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Congress passed an act allowing the Library of Congress to establish a trust fund board
1965 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Boorstin retired
1987 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Purchase of G. V. Yudin's eighty-thousand volume Russian library
1906 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-MacLeish resigned
1944 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-The Kluge Center
2000 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Billington retired
2015 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-One million volumes
1901 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Purchase of the Russian Imperial Collection
1930s - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-The Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
2007 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-BARD
2013 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-The National Digital Library
1990 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-The National Book Festival
2000 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Under pressure
2015 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-The only copy of the 1507 Waldseemüller world map
2003 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-The library launched a mass deacidification program
2001 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Gerald Ford appointed Daniel J. Boorstin as librarian
1974 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Mumford retired
1974 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Putnam established the Legislative Reference Service
1914 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-National Film Preservation Board
1988 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Thomas.gov website launched
1994 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-The Fiction Prize
2008 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-The library acquired Lafayette's previously inaccessible papers in 1996 from a castle at La Grangew
1996 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-National Jukebox launched
2011 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-The library doubled the size of its analog collections from 85.5 million items in 1987 to more than 160 million items in 2014
2014 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Purchase of a four-thousand volume library of Indica
1904 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Herbert Putnam held the office
1899 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Congress.gov website
2012 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-Library of Congress reconstructed Thomas Jefferson's original library
2008 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Library of Congress-John Adams Building completed
1938 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Richard Nixon
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Wednesday Jul 24, 1974 - The Supreme Court, Washington D.C., U.S.
Ted Bundy
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1986 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Ted Bundy
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Dec, 1988 - U.S.
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1966 - Washington, DC, U.S.
Donald Trump
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Tuesday Jan 31, 2017 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Impeachment of Bill Clinton
Impeachment of Bill Clinton-Court ordered the Case to Proceed
May, 1997 - U.S.
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Wednesday Jul 26, 2017 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Tuesday Jul 19, 2016 - U.S.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Tuesday Nov 4, 1952 - U.S.
Abraham Lincoln
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Tuesday Mar 21, 1854 - U.S.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln-Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address
Saturday Mar 4, 1865 - Washington D.C., U.S.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Dec, 1909 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Nancy Pelosi
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Jan, 2019 - U.S.
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Thursday Mar 26, 1964 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression
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Friday May 12, 1933 - U.S.
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2011 - U.S.
The Bank of America Corporate Center, headquarters of Bank of America in Charlotte
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Thursday Jun 22, 2017 - U.S.
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Feb, 1976 - U.S.
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Great Depression-Economy Act of 1933
Monday Mar 20, 1933 - U.S.
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Wednesday Nov 14, 2012 - U.S.
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Wednesday Apr 3, 2019 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Thursday Nov 16, 2006 - U.S.
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Saturday Jun 15, 1929 - U.S.
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Wednesday Nov 30, 2016 - U.S.
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Tuesday Jun 17, 1930 - U.S.
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Nov, 2017 - U.S.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass-Grant signed the Civil Rights Act of 1871
Thursday Apr 20, 1871 - U.S.
World War II
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Monday Dec 8, 1941 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi-Pelosi called for the resignation of Duncan D. Hunter
Aug, 2018 - U.S.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Thursday Jul 2, 1964 - U.S.
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi-Pelosi called for the resignation of John Conyers over allegations of harassment
Nov, 2017 - U.S.
Nancy Pelosi
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2009 - U.S.
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Friday Dec 13, 2019 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Tuesday Sep 24, 2019 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Thursday Sep 21, 1939 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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2018 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Donald Trump
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Wednesday Dec 18, 2019 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Nancy Pelosi
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Wednesday Nov 8, 2006 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Nancy Pelosi
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2001 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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Saturday May 27, 1933 - U.S.
Juneteenth Flag
Juneteenth-Congress recognized the day through Senate Joint Resolution 11 and House Joint Resolution 56
1997 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill-Churchill addressed a joint meeting of the US Congress
Friday Dec 26, 1941 - Washington D.C., U.S.

On This Day - 25 April

Lady Liberty under a blue sky
Statue of Liberty-La Liberté éclairant le monde
Tuesday Apr 25, 1876 - Paris, France
World War II
World War II-East Prussian Offensive
Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - East Prussia (Present Day in Poland)
W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois-United Nations Conference on International Organization
Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - San Francisco, California, U.S.
Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann-Gerda Bormann and the Children fled Obersalzberg for Italy
Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - Italy
Mussolini biografia
Benito Mussolini-Escaping to Spain
Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - Spain
United Nations
United Nations-United Nations Conference on International Organization
Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - San Francisco, California, U.S.
Johan Cruyff
Johan Cruyff-Birth
Friday Apr 25, 1947 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Xanana Gusmão - image
Xanana Gusmão-The Coup In Portugal
Thursday Apr 25, 1974 - Portugal
Collage of Images From The Vietnam War
Vietnam War-Thieu left for Taiwan
Friday Apr 25, 1975 - Taiwan
Orderly repatriation of Argentine army POWs 1982
Falklands War-The Submarine ARA Santa Fe was spotted on the surface
Sunday Apr 25, 1982 - South Georgia Island
Orderly repatriation of Argentine army POWs 1982
Falklands War-Operation Paraquet
Sunday Apr 25, 1982 - South Georgia Island
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China 1988
1989 Tiananmen Square protests-The First Official evaluation of The Protests From The Leadership
Tuesday Apr 25, 1989 - Beijing, China
Bosnian War (The government building in the centre of Sarajevo burns after being hit by tank fire during the siege in 1992) Image
Bosnian War-Izetbegović and Boban signed a ceasefire agreement
Sunday Apr 25, 1993 - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille O'Neal-In his first playoff game for the Lakers
Friday Apr 25, 1997 - Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Hugo Chávez
Hugo Chávez-Chávez called a public referendum
Sunday Apr 25, 1999 - Venezuela
Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson-Backlash: In Your House
Sunday Apr 25, 1999 - Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Virus Microscope Infection
SARS Coronavirus (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)-SARS spreading through Taiwan
Friday Apr 25, 2003 - Taipei, Taiwan
Virus Microscope Infection
SARS Coronavirus (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)-SARS Spreading through China: Closing entertainment venues
Friday Apr 25, 2003 - Beijing, China
Microsoft Corporation current (2019) logo
Microsoft-Nokia acquired
Friday Apr 25, 2014 - Finland
Garry Kasparov Image
Garry Kasparov-Kasparov played a mini-match against Nigel Short
Saturday Apr 25, 2015 - Russia
disasters
Disasters with highest death tolls-2015 Nepal Earthquake
Saturday Apr 25, 2015 at 11:11:00 AM - Nepal
Aaron Hernandez Image
Aaron Hernandez-Appeal
Tuesday Apr 25, 2017 - North Attleborough, Massachusetts, U.S.
Kim Jong-un Image
Kim Jong-un-First summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Thursday Apr 25, 2019 - Vladivostok, Russia
Joe Biden
Joe Biden-Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign
Thursday Apr 25, 2019 - U.S.
3D medical animation corona virus Image
Covid-19 Pandemic: 2020 Coronavirus outbreak-Wuhan Patients Discharged
Saturday Apr 25, 2020 - Wuhan, China
A Colombian marine on a field training exercise
Colombian conflict-Gustavo Adolfo Álvarez Téllez was arrested
Saturday Apr 25, 2020 - Cereté, Colombia
Marc'Antonio Pasqualini Birth
Marc'Antonio Pasqualini Birth
Friday Apr 25, 1614 - Rome
Battle at Gibraltar
Battle at Gibraltar
Wednesday Apr 25, 1607 - Gibraltar
Don Juan Alvarez's death
Don Juan Alvarez's death
Wednesday Apr 25, 1607 - Gibraltar
Hieronymus van Beverningk Birth
Hieronymus van Beverningk Birth
Friday Apr 25, 1614 - Gouda
Jacob van Heemskerck's death
Jacob van Heemskerck's death
Wednesday Apr 25, 1607 - Nova Zambia
Gottlieb Theophil Muffat Birth
Gottlieb Theophil Muffat Birth
Tuesday Apr 25, 1690 - Passau
Chongzhen Emperor's death
Chongzhen Emperor's death
Monday Apr 25, 1644 - China

April 1800

Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker-Banneker's journals
Apr, 1800 - U.S.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon-Siege of Genoa
Sunday Apr 6, 1800 - Genoa, Italy
Logo of the Library of Congress
Library of Congress-Library of Congress was subsequently established
Thursday Apr 24, 1800 - Washington D.C., U.S.

1800

A jack-o'-lantern, one of the symbols of Halloween
Halloween-Halloween became a major holiday in North America
Jan, 1800 - North America
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon-Napoleon and his troops crossed the Swiss Alps into Italy
1800 - Italy
Simon Bolivar
Simón Bolívar-Bolívar was sent to Spain to follow his military studies in Madrid
1800 - Madrid, Spain
Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker-Banneker's journals
Apr, 1800 - U.S.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon-Siege of Genoa
Sunday Apr 6, 1800 - Genoa, Italy
Logo of the Library of Congress
Library of Congress-Library of Congress was subsequently established
Thursday Apr 24, 1800 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon-Battle of Marengo
Saturday Jun 14, 1800 - Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon-Convention of Alessandria
Sunday Jun 15, 1800 - Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon-Conspiration des poignards
Friday Oct 10, 1800 - Paris, France
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon-Battle of Hohenlinden
Wednesday Dec 3, 1800 - Hohenlinden, east of Munich, (Present Day Germany)
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon-Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise
Wednesday Dec 24, 1800 - Paris, France
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