Sunday, July 30, 2017

Day 211 - This day in legal and military history

July 30
 

INTERNATIONAL Day of Friendship
 

NATIONAL Cheesecake Day
 

NATIONAL Father-in-Law Day
 

NATIONAL Paperback Book Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1619 The first legislative assembly in English North America convened in Jamestown, Virginia
 

1729 The US city of Baltimore was founded
 

1932 The tenth modern Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles
 

1938 George Eastman demonstrates his color motion picture process
 

1956 The phrase "In God We Trust" was adopted as the US national motto
 

1965 President Lyndon Johnson signs the Medicare Bill into law
 

2003 The last of the uniquely shaped “old style” Volkswagen Beetles rolls off the assembly line in Mexico

2012 Blackout in India as power grid failure leaves 300 million+ without power

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