Sunday, March 12, 2017

DAY 71 - This day in legal and military history

March 12
 

Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the US [spring ahead]

NATIONAL Alfred Hitchcock Day
 

NATIONAL Girl Scout Day
 

NATIONAL Plant a Flower Day 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1789 The United States Post Office is established
 

1863 President Jefferson Davis delivers his State of the Confederacy address
 

1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time
 

1912 Juliet Low founds the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Georgia
 

1933 President Roosevelt makes the first of his Sunday evening fireside chats
 

1945 Diarist Anne Frank dies in a German concentration camp

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