Pick one for us or just read em and remember or learn about history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_30
1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/alaska.html
Portrait of Secretary of State William H. Seward, officer of the United States Government. Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.), photographer. [Between 1860 and 1865]. Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpb-04948 |
On March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. The Treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the United States Edouard de Stoeckl. Critics of the deal to purchase Alaska called it "Seward’s Folly” or “Seward’s Icebox." Opposition to the purchase of Alaska subsided with the Klondike Gold Strike in 1896.
1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-reagan-shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Jid5uRFo4
.... 7.2 Million for
.... ALASKA ??? ...
that was a worthy purchase..... !!!
..... MY TWO = 2 CENTS PER / ACRE WORTH >>><<< !!!
with the Klondike Gold Strike in 1896...
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