04 February 2017

The First CS Congress

4 February 1861 


On this date in 1861...

First session of the Provisional Confederate Congress began as delegates from six Southern states met at Montgomery, Alabama, to discuss forming a separate American government.



Other Years:


  • 1783 - England proclaimed a formal end to the hostilities with its thirteen American colonies.
  • 1789 - George Washington was unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
  • 1801   John Marshall was sworn in as first Chief Justice of the United States.
  • 1847 - The first Telegraph Company in the U.S. was established in Maryland.
  • 1967 – Lunar Orbiter 3 lifted off from Cape Canaveral on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.


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