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
2003 The US government lowered the terrorist threat level from orange to yellow
Water the flower day with a hole in the bucket?
ReplyDeleteYou noticed that too? Oddly coincidental, some of these days!
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