April Fool's Day
NATIONAL Fun at Work Day
NATIONAL One Cent Day
NATIONAL Sourdough Bread Day
NATIONAL Love our Children Day [first Saturday in April]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1778 Oliver Pollock creates the dollar sign $
1853 Cincinnati became the first US city to pay its firefighters a regular salary
1893 Navy General Order 409 of 25 February 1893 establishes the rank of Chief Petty Officer
1954 US Air Force Academy established
1970 President Nixon signed a bill into law banning cigarette ads from radio and television
1976 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer
1982 The United States transfers control of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama
2009 A computer virus called Conficker was spread through millions of computers, destroying files and sharing information. This was supposed to be an April Fools’ Day Joke. Nobody laughed.
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