In May of 1780, Gen. Benjamin Lincoln was forced to surrender this South Carolina port to the British
More than 200 U.S. Marines were killed in 1983 by a truck bomb at their barracks in this Mideast capital
In 1953, this island's first year as a U.S. commonwealth, 75,000 residents moved to the mainland
In 1903 this "Badger State" became the first to adopt direct primary elections
In 1609 Champlain reached the lake now named for him on the border of New York & this state
On December 2, 1863, ground was broken in Omaha for the construction of this railroad
This president collapsed September 25, 1919 & one week later suffered a stroke
During his first term as president, the Bill of Rights became law
In 1832 this president declared, "The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me; but I will kill it"
In November 1689 Joseph Wadsworth hid this colony's charter from the British by placing it in an oak tree