Saturday, July 22, 2017

Day 203 - This day in legal and military history

July 22
 

NATIONAL Hammock Day 

NATIONAL Mango Day
 

NATIONAL Pi Approximation Day
 

NATIONAL Rat Catcher's Day
 

NATIONAL Day of the Cowboy [fourth Saturday in July]
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1376 The Pied Piper abducts the children of Hamlin
 

1789 Thomas Jefferson becomes the first head of the US Department of Foreign Affairs
 

1796 Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by General Moses Cleveland
 

1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt's "court packing" scheme was rejected by the US Senate
 

1942 US initiates gasoline rationing
 

1975 Congress voted to restore Confederate general Robert E. Lee's US citizenship

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