Saturday, August 12, 2017

Day 224 - This day in legal and military history

August 12
 

WORLD Elephant Day
 

INTERNATIONAL Youth Day
 

NATIONAL Middle Child Day
 

NATIONAL Vinyl Record Day
 

NATIONAL Bowling Day [second Saturday in August]
 

NATIONAL Garage Sale Day [second Saturday in August]
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1851 Issac Singer patented the sewing machine
 

1865 British surgeon Joseph Lister became the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery
 

1896 Gold is discovered near Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada
 

1898 Hawaii was formally annexed to the United States
 

1908 Henry Ford‘s first Model T rolls off the assembly line

1935 President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Bill
 

1981 Computer giant IBM introduces its first personal computer, running PC-DOS 1.0
 

1992 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is concluded between the United States, Canada and Mexico, creating the world’s wealthiest trade bloc

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