War Powers Resolution. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973) (50 U.S.C. 1541â1548) is a federal law intended to check the president 's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.t has been alleged that the War Powers Resolution has been violated in the past â for example, by President Bill Clinton in 1999, during the bombing campaign in Kosovo.
August 7: Partial lunar eclipse. August 21: Total solar eclipse. Get ready for a total solar eclipse visible from continental U.S. in 2017. Itâll happen on Monday, August 21, 2017 â with the path of totality cross from coast to coast â the first total solar eclipse visible on U.S. soil in a generation.
20th century. The total solar eclipse of June 8, 1918 crossed the United States from Washington State to Florida. This path is roughly similar to the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse and was the last time totality crossed the nation from the Pacific to the Atlantic.