Friday, November 10, 2017

Day 314 - This day in legal and military history

November 10
 

NATIONAL Forget-Me-Not Day
 

NATIONAL Marine Corps Day
 

NATIONAL Area Code Day
 

NATIONAL Sesame Street Day
 

NATIONAL Vanilla Cupcake Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1775 The US Marine Corps is founded
 

1951 Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States
 

1969 The PBS children’s program Sesame Street debuts
 

1970 The Great Wall of China opened to the world for tourism
 

1972 Hijackers divert a jet to Detroit, demanding $10 million and ten parachutes
 

1975 The iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald breaks in half and sinks in a storm at the eastern end of Lake Superior; all 29 crew members perish
 

1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened in Washington, DC

1983 Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0
 

1989 German citizens begin tearing down the Berlin Wall

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