* 1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.

* 1990 – Jim Gary's " Twentieth Century Dinosaurs " exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C.

* 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.

* 1894 – Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D. C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

* 1754 – Pierre Charles L ' Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, planner of Washington, D. C. ( d. 1825 )

* 1963 – Isaiah Washington, American actor

* 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

* 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle.

* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

* 1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.

* 1907 – Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, Washington, opened.

* 1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D. C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.

The state legislature had passed resolutions instructing their representatives in Washington to support pro-slavery and popular sovereignty measures such as the LeCompton Constitution and the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

* 1814 – British troops invade Washington, D. C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House is set ablaze, though not burned to the ground ; as well as several other buildings.

* 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech

* 1963 – The Evergreen Point Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina, Washington, US.

* 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.

* 1924 – Dinah Washington, American singer ( d. 1963 )

The largest population clusters of North America ( the Boston – Washington, San Francisco-San Diego, Chicago – Pittsburgh, and Quebec City – Windsor Corridors ) are all thousands of kilometers away from Alberta.

* 1890 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D. C.

Transportation includes the Astoria Regional Airport with U. S. Route 30 and U. S. Route 101 as the main highways, and the Astoria – Megler Bridge connecting to neighboring Washington across the river.

A poll in August 2006 by ABC News and the Washington Post found that 68 % of the 1, 002 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the civilian casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 31 % who blamed Israel to some degree.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

Only a few Fox stations that air a late evening newscast in the traditional evening news timeslot used by NBC, ABC and CBS affiliates ( 11 p. m. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones, 10 p. m. in the Central and Mountain time zones ), along with the primetime newscast ; these include Fox-owned stations WTVT / Tampa, KDFW / Dallas, WAGA / Atlanta, WOFL / Orlando, WJBK / Detroit, KMSP / Minneapolis, KSAZ / Phoenix, WTTG / Washington, D. C. and WFXT / Boston, as well as affiliates WDAF-TV / Kansas City, WITI / Milwaukee, WBRC / Birmingham, KOKH / Oklahoma City, WTIC / Hartford, WXXA / Albany, WZTV / Nashville, WVUE / New Orleans, KTVI / St.

The Blue package contained leases on land-lines and on studio facilities in New York, Washington, D. C., Chicago and Los Angeles ; contracts with talent and with about sixty affiliates ; the trademark and " good will " associated with the Blue name ; and licenses for three stations ( WJZ in New York, San Francisco's KGO, and WENR in Chicago — really a half-station, since WENR shared time and a frequency with " Prairie Farmer " station WLS, with which it would later merge under full ABC ownership in 1954 ).

The ABC was dismantled by Iowa State University, after John Atanasoff was called to Washington, D. C. to do physics research for the U. S. Navy.

Pardon the Interruption and Around the Horn began airing in HD on September 27, 2010 with their move to the building housing the ABC News Washington bureau.

In September 1942 Atanasoff left Iowa State for a wartime assignment as Chief of the Acoustic Division with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory ( NOL ) in Washington, D. C .; no patent application for the ABC was subsequently filed by Iowa State College.

After making the jump to ABC News as a co-host of the Monday edition of 20 / 20 alongside Charles Gibson, she had an interview with Gary Condit, on his relationship with murdered Washington, D. C., intern Chandra Levy.

In five years CAIR officials were cited over 11, 000 times by media, including CNN, MSNBC, BBC, ABC, Fox, NBC, CBS, Washington Post, USA Today, and the New York Times.

She also appeared in many other television series during her career, most notably in a recurring role as Grace Keefer on the ABC daytime drama All My Children and a supporting role as Ella Mae Farmer, a statistics clerk for the Washington, D. C. police department, on the CBS crime drama The District.

Matthews has been married since 1980 to Kathleen Matthews, who anchored News 7 on WJLA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D. C., before accepting a position as an executive vice president with J. W.

In February 2010, ABC News announced it would lay off hundreds of staff members or up to 25 % of its total work force and close all news bureaus outside of its headquarters in Washington and New York, including bureaus in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago.

Couric's first job in 1979 was at the ABC News bureau in Washington, D. C., later joining CNN as an assignment editor.

In 1975, he joined ABC News, where he worked as a general assignment reporter and correspondent from Washington, D. C., until becoming a host of Good Morning America in 1987.

In 1970, he moved to WMAL-TV ( now WJLA ) television, the ABC network affiliate in Washington, D. C. Gibson joined the syndicated news service Television News, Inc. ( TVN ) in 1974.

* Christopher Isham, Washington D. C. Bureau Chief, ABC News

Original investigative work by Harris has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Time Magazine, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, and NBC, as well as by the Associated Press, NPR, and many other mainstream news outlets.

On September 27, 2010, Pardon the Interruption and Around The Horn began broadcasting in high definition and moved from the Atlantic Video Washington complex to facilities in the ABC News Washington bureau, where high definition sets were built for both shows.

Among her honors was being featured by Peter Jennings on ABC as “ Person of the Week ” and textbook editor McGraw-Hill lists her on a timeline of notable educators along with Confucius, Plato, Booker T. Washington and Maria Montessori.

By 1985, the media had driven the hysteria about candy poisonings to such a point that an ABC News / Washington Post poll that found 60 % of parents feared that their children would be injured or killed because of Halloween candy sabotage.

Toward the end of his career, Gardiner made increasing guest appearances on the leading television sitcoms of the 1960s, including Fess Parker's ABC series, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as the lead guest in the episode " Citizen Bellows ".

Ironically, the state's biggest market got a full-fledged ABC affiliate after the state's two smallest markets, Greenville / New Bern / Washington and Wilmington, picked up ABC affiliates.

The local TV station affiliate of ABC in the Washington, D. C. area WJLA-TV " ABC 7 " is located in Rosslyn at 1100 Wilson Boulevard.