40: The Compromise of 1790 begins the establishment of Washington, D.C., as the new nation’s capital and allows the federal government to assume states’ debts.
39: RMS Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg killing roughly 1,500 people. ft. Dr. Steven Biel, Executive Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, Senior Lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University, and author of Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic.
38: President Garfield is shot by Charles J. Guiteau in Washington, D.C. He suffers for two months before dying of the wound and subsequent infection.
37: The Compromise of 1877 gives the Presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange to the end of Reconstruction in the South ft. Joshua Dubbert, historian at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, and Birchard M. Taylor, great-great-grandson of President Rutherford B. Hayes and trustee of both the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums and the Society of Presidential Descendants.
36: The March on Washington takes place, with a crowd of 250,000 watching Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech.
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