40**:** The Compromise of 1790 begins the establishment of Washington, D.C., as the new nation's capital and allows the federal government to assume states' debts.
39: RMS Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg killing roughly 1,500 people. **ft. Dr. Steven Biel, Executive Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, Senior Lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University, and author of **Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic**.**
38: President Garfield is shot by Charles J. Guiteau in Washington, D.C. He suffers for two months before dying of the wound and subsequent infection.
37: The Compromise of 1877 gives the Presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange to the end of Reconstruction in the South **ft. Joshua Dubbert, historian at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, and Birchard M. Taylor, great-great-grandson of President Rutherford B. Hayes and trustee of both the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums and the Society of Presidential Descendants.**
36: The March on Washington takes place, with a crowd of 250,000 watching Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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