In Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant a riot broke out on the 5th of May. A new officer tried to arrest a Salvadoran man for being drunk in public. The police man shot the Salvadoran who was unarmed and the Salvadoran community broke into chaos. Creating a riot within Adams Morgan. http://thewashingtonsyndicate.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/dc-archives_1991-mt-pleasant-riots/
http://www.unionstationdc.com/info/infohistory Union Station opened on September 29, 1988 as a private/public ownership. In 1981 Congress restored the station with $160 million to preserve as a national treasure.
Library of Congress-Gone through a series of losing and gaining books throughout the centuries. Today it is the largest home to books and keeps growing now surpassing 17 million books.
On April 24th 1800, President John Adams established the Library of Congress by approving $5,000 to purchase books. In 1801 the first books were shipped over from London and brought to the U.S. Capital. However 12 years later the British came to Washington D.C. during an invasion and burned down a 3,000 volume library. When Thomas Jefferson became president he sold his books to congress for the use of the government. Today the Library of Congress has more then 17 million books and keeps expanding.
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