US Postal Service Established: Goddard Gets the Mail Moving
William Goddard forced the Continental Congress to establish a Constitutional Post after the royal mail failed his Pennsylvania Chronicle, prompting Benjamin Franklin to launch a streamlined colonial network that connected Maine to Florida before independence was even declared. This urgent infrastructure survived the revolution and evolved into a permanent federal system, eventually transforming from a presidential patronage prize into an independent corporation in 1971.
February 20, 1792
234 years ago
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What Else Happened on February 20
l'empereur romain Trajan reçoit du Sénat le titre de Parthicus.
fin de la bataille de Lugdunum l'actuelle ville de Lyon qui avait embrassé la cause de Clodius Albinus face à Septime Sévère.
The Visconti family was fighting itself. Lodrisio Visconti, exiled from Milan, hired the Company of St. George — 2,500 German mercenaries who'd never lost a bat…
King Christian I of Denmark pawned the Orkney and Shetland islands to Scotland to cover his daughter Margaret’s unpaid dowry. This desperate financial maneuver …
King Christian I of Denmark and Norway pledged the Orkney and Shetland islands to Scotland as collateral for his daughter Margaret’s dowry. When he failed to pa…
bataille de Hard qui oppose les Trois Ligues et les Confédérés suisses à la Ligue de Souabe et aux forces de Maximilien Ier.
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