Monday, March 13, 2017

DAY 72 - This day in legal and military history

March 13
 

NATIONAL Ear Muffs Day 

NATIONAL Jewel Day
 

NATIONAL Good Samaritan Day
 

NATIONAL K9 Veterans Day
 

NATIONAL Open an Umbrella Indoors Day
 

NATIONAL Napping Day [day after return of daylight saving time]


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

607 The 12th recorded passage of Halley’s Comet occurs
 

1639 Cambridge College was renamed Harvard University
 

1781 Astronomer William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus, which he names ‘Georgium Sidus’ in honor of King George III
 

1852 "Uncle Sam" cartoon appeared for the first time in NY Lantern weekly
 

1868 The US Senate begins the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson
 

1884 Standard Time was adopted throughout the United States
 

1935 A three thousand year old archive is found in Jerusalem confirming biblical history
 

1941 Hitler issues an edict calling for an invasion of the Soviet Union
 

1942 Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps becomes the first woman colonel in the US Army.
 

1974 The US Senate votes 54-33 to restore the death penalty
 

1991 Exxon pays $1 billion in fines and costs for the clean-up of the Alaskan oil spill
 

2012 The Encyclopaedia Britannica discontinued its print edition after 244 years
 

2015 NASA reports that scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have found a salty ocean lurking beneath the surface of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede

2 comments:

  1. Today was National Napping Day?!?! You gotta start giving us warning a day ahead of time! Ohhhh, how I could've used that knowledge several hours ago. And I'll forget by next year. Alas.

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    1. My apologies Mr. Manuscript. I actually HAD advance notice but I didn't get a nap either. No rest for the wicked.

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