NATIONAL Ear Muffs Day
NATIONAL Jewel Day
NATIONAL Good Samaritan Day
NATIONAL K9 Veterans Day
NATIONAL Open an Umbrella Indoors Day
NATIONAL Napping Day [day after return of daylight saving time]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
607 The 12th recorded passage of Halley’s Comet occurs
1639 Cambridge College was renamed Harvard University
1781 Astronomer William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus, which he names ‘Georgium Sidus’ in honor of King George III
1852 "Uncle Sam" cartoon appeared for the first time in NY Lantern weekly
1868 The US Senate begins the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson
1884 Standard Time was adopted throughout the United States
1935 A three thousand year old archive is found in Jerusalem confirming biblical history
1941 Hitler issues an edict calling for an invasion of the Soviet Union
1942 Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps becomes the first woman colonel in the US Army.
1974 The US Senate votes 54-33 to restore the death penalty
1991 Exxon pays $1 billion in fines and costs for the clean-up of the Alaskan oil spill
2012 The Encyclopaedia Britannica discontinued its print edition after 244 years
2015 NASA reports that scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have found a salty ocean lurking beneath the surface of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede
Today was National Napping Day?!?! You gotta start giving us warning a day ahead of time! Ohhhh, how I could've used that knowledge several hours ago. And I'll forget by next year. Alas.
ReplyDeleteMy apologies Mr. Manuscript. I actually HAD advance notice but I didn't get a nap either. No rest for the wicked.
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