* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

Administrative law in the United States often involves the regulatory activities of so-called " independent agencies ", such as the Federal Trade Commission (" FTC "), whose Washington D. C. headquarters are shown above.

Washington, D. C .: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration: For sale by the Supt.

The Federal government provided a voucher program for 7, 500 residents of Washington, D. C .-the D. C.

* 1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D. C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

* Stratospheric ozone, myths and realities: Testimony of S. Fred Singer, Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies and Mandates: Case Study 1 — Stratospheric Ozone: Myths and Realities, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Science, US House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1st Sess., September 20, 1995 31 ( Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1996 ).

At his inauguration, Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States of America on April 30, 1789, on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.

This was reflected in its modern headquarters built during the Roosevelt Administration in the 1930s in the Federal Triangle in Washington, D. C.

Washington, DC: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1998.

Because the threatened secession of Maryland would leave the Federal capital of Washington, D. C., an indefensible enclave within the Confederacy, Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus and imposed martial law in Baltimore and portions of the state, ordering the imprisonment of pro-secession Maryland political leaders at Ft. McHenry and the stationing of Federal troops in Baltimore.

Hoover was a devoted Freemason, being raised a Master Mason on 9 November 1920, in Federal Lodge No. 1, Washington, DC, just two months before his 26th birthday.

Minimum wage rates vary greatly across many different jurisdictions, not only in setting a particular amount of money ( e. g. US $ 7. 25 per hour under U. S. Federal law ( or 2. 13 for employees who receive tips, known as the tipped minimum wage ), $ 9. 04 in the U. S. state of Washington, and £ 6. 08 ( for those aged 21 +) in the United Kingdom ), but also in terms of which pay period ( e. g. Russia and China set monthly minimums ) or the scope of coverage.

Lieber reveals that, in 1996, " ADM CEO, Mr. Dwayne Andreas, told The Washington Post that he had known about Whitacre's frauds for three years ” and speculates that Whitacre was fired and turned over to the Federal authorities only after ADM learned he had been working as an FBI mole.

An additional component to the storyline is the uncovering and turning of the Soviet agent codenamed Cassius, a senior aide to a senator in Washington by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The House of Representatives and Senate approved legislation to establish a Department of Foreign Affairs on July 21, 1789, and President Washington signed it into law on July 27, making the Department of Foreign Affairs the first Federal agency to be created under the new Constitution.

Category: Federal architecture in Washington, D. C.

* February 25 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D. C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

* April 30 – George Washington is inaugurated at Federal Hall in New York City, beginning his term as the first President of the United States.

In 1789, Wall Street was the scene of the United States ' first presidential inauguration when George Washington took the oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall on April 30, 1789.

* July 25: In accordance with President Washington's directions, " the books, records, and papers of the late Congress, the Great Seal of the Federal Union, and the Seal of the Admiralty " were delivered over to Roger Alden, deputy secretary of the new Congress, who had been designated by President Washington as custodian for the time being.

* Federal City College ( now merged into the University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D. C., United States )

The historic National Academy of Sciences building is located at 2101 Constitution Avenue, in northwest Washington, DC ; it sits on the National Mall, adjacent to the Federal Reserve and in front of the State Department.

* Steven B. Kamin, Mario Marazzi & John W. Schindler, Is China " Exporting Deflation "?, International Finance Discussion Papers No. 791, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington D. C. January 2004.

While in Washington, D.C., Lucy Upton held positions in the U.S. Census Office, and in the Pension Bureau.

Carnegie contributed $ 1, 500, 000 in 1903 for the erection of the Peace Palace at The Hague ; and he donated $ 150, 000 for a Pan-American Palace in Washington as a home for the International Bureau of American Republics.

Bell's 1893 Volta Bureau building in Washington, D. C.

The Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory, also variously known as the Volta Bureau, the Bell Carriage House, the Bell Laboratory and the Volta Laboratory, was created in Washington, D. C. by Alexander Graham Bell.

The Volta Laboratory and the Volta Bureau were earlier located at Bell's father's house at 1527 35th Street in Washington, D. C., where its carriage house became their headquarters in 1889.

Pertinent to a non-partisan study on the 2008 U. S. Presidential election, the Population Reference Bureau, a demographic research organization based in Washington, D. C., cited Generation X birth years as falling between 1965-1982.

Washington: Government Print Office ( Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology ).

* History of Missouri Indian Tribes, Access Genealogy, extracts for Missouria from John R. Swanton, The Indian Tribes of North America, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 145, Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1953.

* John R. Swanton, " The Indians of the Southeastern United States ", Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 137 ( Washington, D. C., 1946 )

* Anthony F. C. Wallace, " The Modal Personality Structure of the Tuscarora Indians ", Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 150 ( Washington, D. C., 1952 )

In 1928 and 1929 he worked at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D. C., and in 1929 was hired by Bell Telephone Laboratories.

** A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau Office in Washington, D. C.

He was assigned to the Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, expecting to be transferred shortly to the Bureau of Engineering in Washington D. C. After a trip overland across China, Burma, and India, by air across the Mideast to Athens and then London, and by ship to the U. S., Rickover arrived in Washington and took up his duties as assistant chief of the Electrical section of the Bureau of Engineering on 15 August 1939.

Germond, eds., Monte Carlo Method, National Bureau of Standards Applied Mathematics Series, 12 ( Washington, D. C .: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1951 ): 36-38.

In 1863, enlisting the support of Alexander Dallas Bache and Charles Henry Davis, a professional astronomer recently recalled from the Navy to Washington to head the Bureau of Navigation, Louis Agassiz and Benjamin Peirce planned the steps whereby the National Academy of Sciences was to be established.

Chandra Ann Levy ( April 14, 1977 – May 1, 2001 ) was an American intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D. C., who disappeared in May 2001.

* 2008 Headquarters for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ( ATF ), Washington, D. C., USA

* US jurisdictions that currently regulate or license naturopathy include: Alaska, Arizona, California ( see California Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine ), Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oregon, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Utah, Vermont, and Washington.

The National Archives Building in downtown Washington holds record collections such as all existing federal census records, ships ' passenger lists, military unit records from the American Revolution to the Philippine-American War, records of the Confederate government, the Freedmen's Bureau records, and pension and land records.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States reported that the aerospace industry employed 444, 000 wage and salary jobs in 2004, many of which were in Washington and California.