The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the
United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services. Initially formed as a part of the United States Army on 1
August 1907, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the
U.S. Armed Forces on 18 September 1947 with the passing of the National Security Act of 1947. It is the second youngest branch of
the U.S. Armed Forces and the fourth in order of precedence.

The NFL will honor the 75th anniversary of the United States Air
Force before the Cincinnati Bengals and the Los Angeles Rams
take the field at SoFi Stadium Sunday when five elite pilots take
part in a pregame flyover during the closing notes of the national anthem. 

On February 12, 1999, the five-week impeachment trial of Bill
Clinton come to an end, with the Senate voting to acquit the
president on both articles of impeachment: perjury and
obstruction of justice.

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)

Lincoln, one of America’s most admired presidents, grew up a
member of a poor family in Kentucky and Indiana. He attended
school for only one year, but thereafter read on his own in a
continual effort to improve his mind. As an adult, he lived in
Illinois and performed a variety of jobs including stints as a
postmaster, surveyor and shopkeeper, before entering politics. 

The farm site where Lincoln grew up in Spencer County,
Indiana.

The Seven Years’ War, a global conflict known in America as the
French and Indian War, ends with the signing of the Treaty of
Paris by France, Great Britain and Spain (below).