My #2 son's 21st birthday
NATIONAL Everything You Do is Right Day
NATIONAL Absolutely Incredible Kid Day [no, I am not making up this date, it is entirely coincidental that this is also my #2 son's birthday =) ]
NATIONAL Artichoke Hearts Day
NATIONAL Freedom of Information Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is published
1882 US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the International Red Cross
1922 Marines guarded the US mail during a national crime wave
1930 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) was floated out to become a national shrine
1959 John Sailling (111), last documented Civil War vet, died
1969 “1776,” a musical about the writing of the Declaration of Independence, opened on Broadway [My husband loves the movie that was made from this play]
1995 Mississippi formally abolished slavery and ratified 13th Amendment
1996 NASA astronaut Norman Thagard was welcomed aboard the Russian space station Mir as the first American to visit the orbiting outpost
Happy Birthday to #2 son! :)
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I have seen "1776" on stage. Not Broadway, but it was very good nonetheless. We have it on DVD--it's a favorite.
Never seen the stage play but we have it on DVD and watch it at least once per month. It's one of my husband's favorite movies.
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