This Week in History: US Government
From February 28 through March 6:
1845 The first time that a presidential veto was overridden by Congress
1849 US Department of the Interior was created (first known as the Home Department)
1854 The founding of the Republican party (at a meeting in Wisconsin)
1919 From Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and creating a panic.”
1930 From President Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
1931 “Star Spangled Banner” became the US national anthem (117 years after it was written)
1970 Nuclear nonproliferation treaty was signed by the US, the Soviet Union and 41 other nations
1973 The US, the Viet Cong, the North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese signed a peace treaty in Paris