On February 22, 1889 US President Grover Cleveland (pictured) signed the bill to admit the Dakotas, Montana and Washington as states of the union.

On February 22, 1889 US President Grover Cleveland (pictured) signed the bill to admit the Dakotas, Montana and Washington as states of the union.

On February 22, 1889 US President Grover Cleveland (pictured) signed the bill to admit Dakotas, Montana, and Washington as states of the union. — February 22, 1857 was the birthday of  Heinrich Hertz, a German physicist who was the first to broadcast and receive radio waves and helped to invent radar technology.  He died in 1894. — On this day in 1943,  Sophie Scholl was executed by beheading for organizing the White Rose group–a student resista…

TheVoiceOfJoyce History repeats itself. In the 1890’s western states were added to the Union to assure Republicans dominated the houses of Congress. However, tariffs were so unpopular, a new President was elected. Grover Cleveland got a second term and th

On February 22, 1889, outgoing Democratic president Grover Cleveland signed an omnibus bill that divided the Territory of Dakota in half and enabled the people in the new Territories of North Dakota and South Dakota, as well as the older Territories of Montana and Washington, to write state constitutions and elect state governments. The four new states would be admitted to the Union in nine months. Republicans and Democrats had fought for years …