NATIONAL Beverage Day
NATIONAL Tourists Appreciation Day
NATIONAL Nurses Day
NATIONAL No Diet Day
NATIONAL No Homework Day
NATIONAL Scrapbook Day [first Saturday in May]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1861 Arkansas becomes the ninth state to secede from the Union
1889 Dedication of the Eiffel Tower
1937 The dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey
1941 Bob Hope gives his first USO show at California’s March Field
1954 British runner Roger Bannister breaks the four minute mile
1960 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960
1962 The first nuclear warhead is fired from a Polaris submarine
1970 More than 100 universities across the US shut down as thousands of students join a nationwide campus protest
1994 The Channel Tunnel linking England to France is officially opened
I don't know about over here, but when I was a kid in the UK, having "No Homework Day" on a Saturday would have sucked big time. :)
ReplyDeleteI thought about how much it didn't make sense when I was scheduling the post. Glad to see I'm not the only one!
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