Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at Popes Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia. His father, Augustine, is a plantation owner who dies when George is 11. June 15, 1775 ...

In 1777, George Washington faced a losing war. Then he created America's first espionage operation. George Washington paid the new nation's first spies out of his own pocket.

At National Geographic, Robert Krulwich writes that he was stunned to learn this fact from Ron Chernow’s book Washington: A Life. Krulwich explains: Turns out, that hair was his.