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Interesting Facts:
District of Columbia is named for Christopher Columbus
The Residence Bill of July 16, 1790, established a site along the Potomac to be the capital. This federal district was first called the Territory of Columbia and the federal city, the City of Washington. The name changed to the District of Columbia in 1793.
The District was created from 100 square miles of land taken from the states of Maryland and Virginia. The Virginia portion was returned in 1846.
The 23rd amendment to the Constitution (1961) granted residents the right to vote for president and vice president for the first time since 1800 and gave them three members in the Electoral College. The first such votes were cast in the November 1964 election.
The most popular museum in DC-and on the planet-is the National Air and Space Museum, which has had 219 million visitors in its first 25 years. | |
