Source: Good News Network
The United States House of Representatives first met in New York City and held its first quorum, electing Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker. The lower chamber of the US legislature established by the new nation’s Constitution, the House is composed of Representatives elected on the basis of population, with the total number of 435 fixed by law.
(1789)MORE Good News on this Date:
- A London-Paris telephone connection was opened (1891)
- The impressionist painter Paul Gauguin left France for Tahiti, where he created luminous prolific canvases (1891)
- President Nixon signed a law that required the Surgeon General’s warnings on tobacco products and banned cigarette advertising on television and radio in the US beginning the following year (1970)
- The world’s seven wealthiest nations (G7) agreed to give $24 billion in aid to the states formerly known as the USSR (1992)
- Same-sex marriage became legal in the Netherlands (2001)
- The Netherlands legalized euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so (2002)
- Google launched its Gmail service to the public and within 12 years the free email service had one billion active users worldwide (2004)
And, on this day in 1976, the Apple Computer company was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne to sell…
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