Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Day 221 - This day in legal and military history

August 9
 

NATIONAL Book Lovers Day
 

NATIONAL Melon Day
 

NATIONAL Rice Pudding Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1483 Pope Sixtus IV celebrates the first mass in the Sistine Chapel, which is named in his honor
 

1854 Henry David Thoreau's Walden, recounting his experiment in solitary life on the shores of Massachusetts' Walden Pond, was published
 

1859 The escalator is patented. The first working escalator, manufactured by the Otis Elevator Company, appeared in 1900
 

1892 Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph
 

1910 The first complete, self-contained electric washing machine is patented
 

1930 The first appearance of the animated character Betty Boop in “Dizzy Dishes
 

1936 Jesse Owens became the first American to win four gold medals in one Olympics
 

1944 The fictional character Smokey Bear (“Only you can prevent forest fires”) is created by the US Forest Service and the Ad Council

1945 The B-29 bomber Bock’s Car drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan
 

1965 Singapore is expelled from Malaysia following economic disagreements and racial tensions, and becomes an independent republic
 

1974 Gerald Ford is sworn in as president of the United States after the resignation of President Richard Nixon
 

2001 USMC Commandant James L. Jones promotes Pfc Gomer Pyle to honorary lance corporal

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