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In Remembrance
1790
Rhode Island became the 13th state in the United States, the last of the original colonies to ratify the Constitution.
1848
Wisconsin became the 30th state in the United States.
1917
John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass.
1942
Bing Crosby recorded his version of White Christmas. It would go on to sell over 30 million copies.
1953
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1990
Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the parliament.
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1765................Patrick Henry bitterly denounced the Stamp Act in the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Stamp Act, 1765, revenue law passed by the British Parliament during the ministry of George Grenville . The first direct tax to be levied on the American colonies, it required that all newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, commercial bills, advertisements, and other papers issued in the colonies bear a stamp. The revenue obtained from the sale of stamps was designated for colonial defense while the means of raising revenue was novel, the application of such revenue to defense continued existing British policy.
The act was vehemently denounced in the colonies by those it most affected: businessmen, merchants, journalists, lawyers, and other powerful persons. Among these were Samuel Adams , Christopher Gadsden , Patrick Henry , John Dickinson , John Lamb , Joseph Warren , and Paul Revere . Associations known as the Sons of Liberty were formed to organize opposition to the Stamp Act. Merchants boycotted English goods stamp distributors were forced to resign and stamps were destroyed and the Massachusetts legislature, at the suggestion of James Otis , issued a call for a general congress to find means of resisting the law.
The Stamp Act Congress, which met in Oct., 1765, in New York City, included delegates from New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, South Carolina, Maryland, and Connecticut. The congress adopted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances it declared that freeborn Englishmen could not be taxed without their consent, and, since the colonists were not represented in Parliament, any tax imposed on them without the consent of their colonial legislatures was unconstitutional. Faced with a loss of trade, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766.
Henry, Patrick, 173699, political leader in the American Revolution, b. Hanover co., Va. Largely self-educated, he became a prominent trial lawyer. Henry bitterly denounced (1765) the Stamp Act and in the years that followed helped fan the fires of revolt in the South. As an orator he knew no equal. Several phrases attributed to hime.g., " If this be treason, make the most of it " and " Give me liberty or give me death "are familiar to all Americans. Henry became a leader among the so-called radicals and spoke clearly for individual liberties. He was a delegate to the house of burgesses (176574), the Continental Congress (177476), and the Virginia provincial convention (1775). His hopes for a military career in the American Revolution were frustrated, but as governor of Virginia (177679) he sent George Rogers Clark to the Illinois country. He was (178486) again governor and led the fight for the Virginia Religious Freedom Act of 1785. Although he later became a Federalist, Henry opposed ratification of the U.S. Constitution, believing that it endangered state sovereignty, and he worked successfully to have the first 10 amendments (Bill of Rights) added to the Constitution.
Rhode Island became the 13th state in the United States, the last of the original colonies to ratify the Constitution.
1848
Wisconsin became the 30th state in the United States.
1917
John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass.
1942
Bing Crosby recorded his version of White Christmas. It would go on to sell over 30 million copies.
1953
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1990
Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the parliament.
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1765................Patrick Henry bitterly denounced the Stamp Act in the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Stamp Act, 1765, revenue law passed by the British Parliament during the ministry of George Grenville . The first direct tax to be levied on the American colonies, it required that all newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, commercial bills, advertisements, and other papers issued in the colonies bear a stamp. The revenue obtained from the sale of stamps was designated for colonial defense while the means of raising revenue was novel, the application of such revenue to defense continued existing British policy.
The act was vehemently denounced in the colonies by those it most affected: businessmen, merchants, journalists, lawyers, and other powerful persons. Among these were Samuel Adams , Christopher Gadsden , Patrick Henry , John Dickinson , John Lamb , Joseph Warren , and Paul Revere . Associations known as the Sons of Liberty were formed to organize opposition to the Stamp Act. Merchants boycotted English goods stamp distributors were forced to resign and stamps were destroyed and the Massachusetts legislature, at the suggestion of James Otis , issued a call for a general congress to find means of resisting the law.
The Stamp Act Congress, which met in Oct., 1765, in New York City, included delegates from New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, South Carolina, Maryland, and Connecticut. The congress adopted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances it declared that freeborn Englishmen could not be taxed without their consent, and, since the colonists were not represented in Parliament, any tax imposed on them without the consent of their colonial legislatures was unconstitutional. Faced with a loss of trade, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766.
Henry, Patrick, 173699, political leader in the American Revolution, b. Hanover co., Va. Largely self-educated, he became a prominent trial lawyer. Henry bitterly denounced (1765) the Stamp Act and in the years that followed helped fan the fires of revolt in the South. As an orator he knew no equal. Several phrases attributed to hime.g., " If this be treason, make the most of it " and " Give me liberty or give me death "are familiar to all Americans. Henry became a leader among the so-called radicals and spoke clearly for individual liberties. He was a delegate to the house of burgesses (176574), the Continental Congress (177476), and the Virginia provincial convention (1775). His hopes for a military career in the American Revolution were frustrated, but as governor of Virginia (177679) he sent George Rogers Clark to the Illinois country. He was (178486) again governor and led the fight for the Virginia Religious Freedom Act of 1785. Although he later became a Federalist, Henry opposed ratification of the U.S. Constitution, believing that it endangered state sovereignty, and he worked successfully to have the first 10 amendments (Bill of Rights) added to the Constitution.
