United States Capitol
meeting place of the United States Congress
6 dated entries naming United States Capitol, drawn from 6 separate years between 1793 CE and 1998 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
Also written as U.S. Capitol Building, United States Capitol Building in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.
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18th century
19th century
- 1814August 24 – War of 1812 – Burning of Washington: British troops, after defeating American forces at the Battle of Bladensburg, occupy Washington, D.C., setting numerous buildings on fire, including the Capitol and Presidential Mansion.source
- 1835January 30 – Attempted assassination of Andrew Jackson: The first assassination attempt against a President of the United States is carried out against President Andrew Jackson at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., by English-born delusional unemployed house painter Richard Lawrence; the attempt fails when his pistols misfire due to humidity.source
20th century
- 1969March 30 – The body of former United States General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower is brought by caisson to the United States Capitol to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda; Eisenhower had died two days earlier, after a long illness, in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.source
- 1971March 1 – A bomb explodes in the men's room at the United States Capitol; the Weather Underground claims responsibility.source
- 1998July 24 – Russell Eugene Weston Jr. enters the United States Capitol Building and opens fire, killing two members of the United States Capitol Police, Jacob Chestnut and John Gibson.source
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- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1)