Thursday, July 20, 2017

Day 201 - This day in legal and military history

July 20
 

WORLD Jump Day
 

INTERNATIONAL Chess Day
 

NATIONAL Space Exploration Day
 

NATIONAL Lollipop Day
 

NATIONAL Moon Day
 

NATIONAL Ugly Truck Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1881 Sioux chief Sitting Bull surrenders to the US Army
 

1917 The US draft lottery in World War I went into operation
 

1948 US reinstitutes the draft for the Cold War
 

1969 Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon 

1976 The Viking spacecraft lands on Mars and begins taking soil samples

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