1775 - The first American society for the abolition of slavery is organised by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush. April 14, 1988: Soviet Union agrees to withdraw from Afghanistan Benjamin Rush, a physician and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, noted, "Without virtue there can be no...
Henry Labouchere , a fellow Liberal MP, responded by saying that he "did not object to the old man always having a card up his sleeve, but he did object to his insinuating that the Almighty had placed it there." (41) More than a million votes were cast in the 1868 General Election...
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the United States (1889–93), a moderate Republican who won an electoral majority while losing the popular vote by more than 100,000. Harrison signed into law the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), the first legisla