Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Day 172 - This day in legal and military history

June 21
 

First Day of Summer
 

WORLD Music Day
 

INTERNATIONAL Yoga Day
 

NATIONAL Selfie Day
 

NATIONAL Skateboarding Day

NATIONAL Daylight Appreciation Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1788 New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land
 

1834 Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper was patented
 

1898 Guam became a US territory
 

1939 Baseball legend Lou Gehrig is forced to quit baseball because of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - a disease which wastes muscles
 

1948 Berlin Airlift begins
 

1982 John Hinckley Jr. is found not guilty by reason of insanity for attempting to assassinate President Ronald Reagan
 

1989 The US Supreme Court decided that burning the US flag was protected under the First Amendment
 

2004 SpaceShipOne lifted off from the Mojave Desert in the initial stage of the world’s first attempted commercial space flight

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