- April 15, 2026
Washington, DC is the capital city of the United States of America.
New York had a lot of debt from the Revolutionary War, and the federal government was close to running out of money. So, Alexander Hamilton made an important deal with Thomas Jefferson. They agreed that the new capital of the United States would move to a quiet, rural area across the Potomac River, near Jefferson’s home state of Virginia.
The best explanation is that most Americans like to say and write dates with the month first. Because of this, they also write dates using numbers in the same way, with the month before the day and year. This is why the American date format is MM/DD/YY.
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