Crazy times. Speaking of crazy times, on this day April 22 in 1864 the US Congress passed the Coinage Act, authorising the minting of the two cent coin, the first to contain the US' eventual ...

It was stormed by revolutionaries in July 1789; an act celebrated every July 14 in France. In 1864, the U.S. Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1864, which led to “In God We Trust” being ...