Thursday, August 24, 2017

Day 236 - This day in legal and military history

August 24
 

INTERNATIONAL Strange Music Day
 

NATIONAL Pluto Demoted Day
 

NATIONAL Vesuvius Day
 

NATIONAL Burger Day
 

NATIONAL Knife Day
 

NATIONAL Peach Pie Day
 

NATIONAL Waffle Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

79 Mount Vesuvius erupts, destroying Pompeii, Stabiae, Herculaneum and other smaller settlements
 

1814 The British set fire to the White House and the Capitol when they invaded Washington, DC during the War of 1812
 

1847 Charlotte Bronte, using the pseudonym Currer Bell, sends a manuscript of Jane Eyre to her publisher in London
 

1869 Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York, patents the waffle iron
 

1891 Thomas Edison files a patent for the motion picture camera
 

1894 Congress passes the first graduated income tax law, which is declared unconstitutional the next year
 

1954 Congress outlaws the Communist Party in the United States
 

1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for murdering former Beatles band member John Lennon
 

1989 Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti bans Pete Rose from baseball for gambling
 

1992 Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Florida as a Category 5 storm, resulting in $26.5 billion in US damages, causing 65 US deaths, and felling 70,000 acres of trees in the Everglades
 

2006 Pluto is downgraded to a dwarf planet when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines “planet”

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