2. George Washington was re-elected President of the USA.
23/4/1791, James Buchanan, Democrat and 15th US President, was born in Stony Batter near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, the son of a farmer.
29/3/1790, John Tyler, American Whig and 10th President, was born in Greenway, Virginia.
30/4/1789. General George Washington inaugurated as first president of the United States, on the balcony of New York City’s federal Hall. John Adams was installed as Vice-President (see 7/1/1789 and 17/3/1776). The United States was federated on 4/3/1789.
24/11/1784, Zachary Taylor, American Whig and 12th President, was born in Orange County, Virginia.
5/12/1782, Martin van Buren, US Democrat and 8th President, was born in Kinderhook, New York State, the son of a farmer.
9/2/1773, William Henry Harrison, American Whig and 9th President, was born in Berkeley in Charles City County, Virginia.
11/7/1767, John Quincy Adams, 6th American President, was born at Braintree, Massachusetts, son of John Adams, 2nd President.
15/3/1767, Andrew Jackson, American Democrat and 7th President from 1828 to retirement in 1837, was born in the Waxhaws district of South Carolina, son of Irish immigrants.
28/4/1758, James Monroe, American Republican and 5th President, was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
16/3/1751, James Madison, American Republican and 4th President, was born in Port Conway, Virginia, the first of 12 children.
13/4/1743, Thomas Jefferson, 3rd American President, was born in Shadwell, Virginia, son of a civil engineer.
30/10/1735, John Adams, American Federalist and 2nd President, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, the son of a farmer.
Appendix 4 - Alaska
28/8/2015, McKinley National Park, USA, was renamed ‘Denali’.
2/12/1980, McKinley National Park, USA, (now Denali), was enlarged to 15,000 square miles.
28/7/1977, First oil through the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline reached Valdez, Alaska.
22/6/1977. The 7,000 mile Alaska Oil Pipeline opened.
31/5/1977, The Trans-Alaska Pipeline was completed.
9/3/1975, Construction of the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline began.
1971, The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act awarded the 85,000 indigenous Artic peoples of Alsaka US$ 1 billion compensation and 44 million acres of land; however this was in return for the extinction of all other indigenous land claims. This cleared the way for the construction of the Trans-Alsaka oil pipeline.
1/1968, Large oil and gas reserves were found under the North Slope area of Alaska.
3/1/1959. Alaska became the 49th State of the USA. It is the USA’s largest state.
1942, The Alaska Highway was constructed, from Fort St John (British Columbia) to Fairbanks (Alsaka); the road was intended to assist in the defence of Alaska in the event of a Japanese attack.
26/2/1917, US Congress created the McKinley National Park, covering 2,500 square miles. It is now much larger, and known as Denali.
1915, The city of Anchorage, Alaska, was founded as a railway town.
1/6/1910, The first white settlements on the banks of Alaska's Iditarod River were made when a steamer brought gold prospectors to within 13 km of a gold strike. By August, there were two towns, each with 2,000 people: Iditarod and Flat.
8/5/1906, The US allowed Alaska to elect a delegate to Congress; they arrived in December.
17/5/1884, The US passed the Organic Act, making the new territory of Alaska subject to the laws of Oregon.
18/10/1867, Sovereignty of Aaska was formally transferred from Russia to the USA at a ceremony at Sitka.
30/3/1867. The USA purchased Alaska from Russia. Senate voted for the purchase by a single vote. The price was US$7.2 million, less than 2 cents per acre for Alaska’s 375 million acres. Some derided the purchase of this vast wasteland, calling it ‘Icebergia’ or ‘Polaria’. However William Seward, Secretary for the Interior, said that Alaska had great riches in the form of furs, minerals, and fisheries.
15/7/1741, The first Europeans landed on the coast of Alaska. A Russian expedition led by Vitus Bering began exploration there.
Appendix 5 – California
8/11/2018, Severe wildfires began in California, their u