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A stationery shop opens on Broadway; first day's take comes to $4.98

Tiffany & Young sells paper goods and trinkets out of a storefront financed by a cotton mill fortune.

On September 18, 1837, in the middle of a financial panic gripping the country, Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young opened a "stationery and fancy goods emporium" at 259 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, calling it Tiffany, Young and Ellis. On September 18, Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young opened a "stationery and fancy goods emporium" at 259 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, calling it Tiffany & Young. The store's entire first-day take was $4.98. It would be decades before the name meant diamonds…

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1947

The law takes hold: America wakes to a Defense Department and a new spy agency

One day after Forrestal's confirmation, the government's wartime agencies formally give way to a unified national security machine.
1850

Congress orders every escaped slave returned; the North must help catch them

Habeas corpus does not apply, and commissioners are paid double to rule against the accused.
1924

American forces leave Santo Domingo; Dominican National Guard takes over policing

The handover closes an eight-year occupation, but Washington keeps its grip on the country's customs house.
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A silversmith's stone, an inscribed silver plate, and a parade mark the start of Congress's future home.
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1858

Minnesota enters the Union as the 32nd state; the Dakota name, the French motto, the New England soul

Nine years after Ramsey stepped off a riverboat to govern 5,000 settlers, the eastern half of the old territory takes its place on the map.
1846

Congress declares war on Mexico; Polk tells the nation its blood was shed on its own soil

The vote formalizes three weeks of open conflict rooted in a disputed border, the annexation of Texas, and a decade of unresolved claims between two nations.
1854

Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska Act; the Missouri Compromise's thirty-four-year line is gone

Douglas's "popular sovereignty" doctrine now lets settlers in both territories vote on slavery themselves, erasing the 36°30' ban that has held since 1820.
1846

Thirty-three armed settlers seize Sonoma before dawn; California declares itself a republic

General Vallejo is taken prisoner in his own home, 170 government horses are seized, and a hand-sewn bear flag now flies over the barracks.
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