Married Filing Separately. If your husband does not want to share the responsibility of a joint return, he can choose to file separately without telling you. The status of married filing separately can benefit him if he expects to receive a refund and thinks that you will owe tax.
Washington became the forty-second state of the United States of America on November 11, 1889. After a hiatus of thirteen years when no new states were admitted to the Union, the United States Congress passed an act enabling the territories of Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana to seek statehood.
On January 8, 1790, President George Washington delivered to Congress the first State of the Union address in American history.