Saturday, May 27, 2017

Day 147 - This day in legal and military history

May 27
 

INTERNATIONAL Jazz Day
 

NATIONAL Sun Screen Day
 

NATIONAL Cellophane Tape Day
 

NATIONAL Grape Popsicle Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1647 Achsah Young becomes the first woman known to be executed as a witch in Massachusetts
 

1668 Three colonists are expelled from Massachusetts for being Baptists
 

1907 The Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco
 

1935 The Supreme Court declares President Franklin Roosevelt‘s National Recovery Act unconstitutional
 

1936 The Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage, arriving in France four hours later
 

1937 San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opens

1969 Construction begins on Walt Disney World in Florida

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