April 24th: Today in 1800 President John Adams established the Library of Congress. Initially is was primarily legal documents until after the library was destroyed in 1814 by barbarians and was replaced by Thomas Jefferson’s personal library which contained books on all topics establishing a broadbased library of all books.

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