The First CS Congress – Today In Southern History
4 February 1861
On this date in 1861…
First session of the Provisional Confederate Congress began as delegates from six Southern states met at Montgomery, Alabama, to discuss forming a separate American government.
Other Years:
1783 – England proclaimed a formal end to the hostilities with its thirteen American colonies.
1789 – George Washington was unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1801 John Marshall was sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
1847 – The first Telegraph Company in the U.S. was established in Maryland.
1967 – Lunar Orbiter 3 lifted off from Cape Canaveral on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
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If I'm not mistaken, John Jay was the 1st Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was nominated on September 24, 1789 by President George Washington, who created the position of Chief Justice on the same day by signing the Judiciary Act of 1789.