Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Day 150 - This day in legal and military history

May 30
 

NATIONAL Water a Flower Day
 

NATIONAL Hole in my Bucket Day
 

NATIONAL Mint Julep Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1431 Joan of Arc is declared a heretic and burned at the stake by the English
 

1783 The first American daily newspaper, The Pennsylvania Evening Post, begins publishing in Philadelphia
 

1848 William Young patents the ice cream freezer
 

1854 The Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals the Missouri Compromise
 

1868 Memorial Day begins when two women place flowers on both Confederate and Union graves
 

1889 The brassiere is invented
 

1958 Unknown soldiers of WWII & Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery
 1962 The USS 'Arizona' Memorial dedicated in Pearl Harbor
 

2003 The US government lowered the terrorist threat level from orange to yellow

2 comments:

  1. Water the flower day with a hole in the bucket?

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    1. You noticed that too? Oddly coincidental, some of these days!

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