Tuesday, January 17, 2017

DAY 17 - This day in legal and military history

January 17
 

NATIONAL Ditch New Year's Resolutions Day
 


NATIONAL Kid Inventors Day
 

NATIONAL Bootlegger's Day
 

NATIONAL Hot Buttered Rum Day 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1893 Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii is overthrown by a group of American sugar planters led by Sanford Dole
 

1977 Gary Gilmore became the first person executed in the U.S. since the death penalty was reintroduced
 

1985 A jury in New Jersey rules that terminally ill patients have the right to starve themselves
 

1998 President Clinton became the first sitting US president to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil suit
 

2007 President George W. Bush announces that the NSA is now required to obtain warrants for wiretapping and domestic surveillance


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