Friday the 13th
WORLD Egg Day [second Friday of October]
INTERNATIONAL Skeptics Day
NATIONAL Vet Nurse Day
NATIONAL No Bra Day
NATIONAL Train Your Brain Day
NATIONAL Navy Birthday
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1670 Virginia passed a law that blacks arriving in the colonies as Christians could not be used as slaves
1775 The Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy)
1792 The cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia
1849 The California state constitution, which prohibits slavery, is signed in Monterey
1884 Greenwich was established as universal time meridian of longitude
1914 Garrett Morgan invented and patented the gas mask
1987 First operational use of dolphins by the US Navy, in the Persian Gulf
2012 Residents of Los Angeles watch in awe as US Space Shuttle Endeavor inches through the city on a giant trolley, bound for a museum. Hundreds of trees in its path are chopped down.
It's International Skeptic's Day? Really? You sure about that...?
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I was skeptical when I read that, but I included it on my blog anyway =)
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