CAMILLE BOHANNON

June 18, 1812: The day after the Senate followed the House of Representatives in voting to declare war against Great Britain,
President James Madison signed the declaration into law—
and the War of 1812 began. The American war declaration,
opposed by a sizable minority in Congress, had been called
in response to the British economic blockade of France, the
induction of American seaman into the British Royal Navy
against their will, and the British support of Indian tribes along
the Great Lakes frontier. A faction of Congress known as the
“War Hawks” had been advocating war with Britain for several
years and had not hidden their hopes that a U.S. invasion of
Canada might result in significant territorial land gains for the
United States.

    
    
   

James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836)

Happy Fathers Day by Howard Scott | The Saturday Evening Post.

Sonora founded Father’s Day in Spokane, Washington, in 
1910. She was inspired by the example of her devoted
dad, William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran.

In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first
presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating
the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day.

Six years later, the day was made a permanent national
holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law
in 1972.

William Jackson Smart, the inspiration for Father’s Day.

On June 17, 1885, the dismantled Statue of Liberty, a gift of
friendship from the people of France to the people of America,
arrived in New York Harbor after being shipped across the
Atlantic Ocean in 350 individual pieces packed in more than
200 cases. The copper and iron statue, which was reassembled
and dedicated the following year in a ceremony presided over
by U.S. President Grover Cleveland, became known around the
world as an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy.

The Statue of Liberty’s face before it was installed.