Monday, January 9, 2017

DAY 9 - This day in legal and military history

January 9
 

NATIONAL Static Electricity Day
 
NATIONAL Word Nerd Day [I qualify as this.]
 

NATIONAL Clean Off Your Desk Day [second Monday in January]
 




Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1788 Connecticut admitted to the US as the 5th state
 

1861 Mississippi is the second state to secede from the US, first shot of the US Civil War
 

1968 Surveyor 7, the last US unmanned probe, lands on the moon
 

2007 Steve Jobs announces first iPhone

2 comments:

  1. I've been lurking. I love the subject you've chosen.

    Crazy as it sounds I cleaned my desk yesterday.

    Your posts come to me in the morning the day after.

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    1. Glad you're lurking, and glad you de-lurked! And a clean desk is a sign of a sick mind, which is why mine looks like it does =)

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