Was George Washington born in the United States?

Did you know...

...Fun Fact #1 - That Lyndon B. Johnson's mother, Rebekah Baines, taught him the alphabet at age two, and how to read at age four?

*From Presidential Trivia

...Fun Fact #2 - The city of Austin, Texas has a bridge that houses more than a million bats? The "bat flight" everyday at dusk has become a tourist attraction.

*From Another Big Book of American Trivia

...Fun Fact #3 - Martin Van Buren was the first president to be born in the United States. All of the preceding presidents were born on what is now United States soil, but as British subjects. Van Buren, the eighth president, was born on December 5, 1782.

*From Which President Killed a Man? : Tantalizing Trivia and Fun Facts About Our Chief Executives and First Ladies

April 25 - 1684 - Patent granted for thimble

April 26 - 1721: Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated

April 27 - 1861: President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus

April 28 - 1967: Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title

April 29 - 1813: Rubber is patented

April 30 - 1974: President Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings

May 1 - 1866: American Equal Rights Association forms

Today in History

"“It's spring fever.... You don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”" Mark Twain

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