London's streets had a gaslight glow beginning in 1807. * Image: E.O. Hoppe/Corbis * 1807: London's Pall Mall becomes the first street anywhere to be illuminated by gaslight. The gaslight was ...
• During her CNN show, Burnett said on several occasions that a president hasn’t deployed U.S. military troops on U.S. soil since 1807. That’s incorrect. • The law was signed in 1807, but it was last ...
On this day in 1807, Congress enacted a law to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States ... from any foreign kingdom, place or country.” ...