1 A half step (or ''semitone'') is the distance from one key on the keyboard to the next adjacent key. 2  Key 1 to Key 2 is a half step since they are next to each other. 3  A half step is not always from a white key to a black key.
The Virginia House of Burgesses established in 1619 is considered the first representative assembly (government) in the US and the Americas.
1916 - Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, is the first woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. 1922 - Rebecca Felton, of Georgia, is appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill a temporary vacancy. The first woman senator, she serves for only two days. 1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to serve as governor of a state, in Wyoming.