Monday, January 16, 2017

DAY 16 - This day in legal and military history

January 16

Martin Luther King Jr Day [third Monday in January]
 

NATIONAL Nothing Day
 

NATIONAL Fig Newton Day
 

NATIONAL Religious Freedom Day
 

NATIONAL Without a Scalpel Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history

1909 One of Ernest Shackleton‘s polar exploration teams reaches the Magnetic South Pole
 


1920 National Prohibition under the 18th Amendment goes into effect [repealed in 1933]
 

1945 Adolf Hitler takes to his underground bunker for 105 days until he commits suicide
 

1991 The Persian Gulf War begins with Operation Desert Storm

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