In 1358 Lubeck, on the Baltic coast, became the headquarters of this league
In this mid-1930s this U.S. naval officer chartered the Edsel Ford mountains in Antarctica
In 1986 this dictator fled Haiti, ending 28 years of rule by his family
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
He earned his captain's commission by burning the Philadelphia at Tripoli in 1804
In 1813 the U.S. defeated the British in the Battle of the Thames River in what is now this country
This state's constitution of 1849 led married women retain control of their own property
The political ring led by this man stole as much as $200 million from NYC before it was ousted in 1871
John Adams appointed this John chief justice