NATIONAL Winnie the Pooh Day
NATIONAL Thesaurus Day
NATIONAL Peking Duck Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1775 The Continental Congress presents its petitions to the British Parliament
1915 The US Revenue Marine is renamed the US Coast Guard
1943 A wartime ban is introduced on the sale of pre-sliced bread in the United States, to save metal parts in slicing machines
1957 Three US Air Force jets complete a nonstop around-the-world flight, averaging over 500 miles per hour
1962 The United States begins spraying foliage with herbicides in South Vietnam, in order to reveal the whereabouts of Vietcong guerrillas
2014 NASA scientists beam a picture of the Mona Lisa to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft orbiting the Moon, marking a first in laser communication
I love that it was Winnie the Pooh day. A.A. Milne was born on January 18th. Me too.
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