NATIONAL Barbershop Quartet Day
NATIONAL Be Kind to Lawyers Day [Wow! Really?!]
NATIONAL Eight-Track Tape Day
NATIONAL Pet Day
NATIONAL Submarine Day
NATIONAL Library Workers Day [Tuesday of National Library Week]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1890 Ellis Island was designated as an immigration station
Immigrants on Ellis Island in 1906
1921 Iowa imposed the first state cigarette tax
1945 Allies liberated Buchenwald concentration camp
1951 President Harry Truman fired General Douglas McArthur
1968 President Johnson signs the 1968 Civil Rights Act
1976 The Apple I is created
1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was overthrown
1981 President Ronald Reagan returns to the White House from the hospital after an assassination attempt
1986 Dodge Morgan sails solo nonstop around the world in 150 days
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