Wednesday, March 22, 2017

DAY 81 - This day in legal and military history

March 22
 

INTERNATIONAL Goof Off Day
 

NATIONAL Bavarian Crepes Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1765 The Stamp Act is passed, the first direct British tax on the American colonists
 

1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the first US Secretary of State
 

1834 Horace Greeley publishes New Yorker, a weekly literary and news magazine and forerunner of Harold Ross’ more successful The New Yorker
 

1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere first demonstrated motion pictures using celluloid film in Paris
 

1904 The first color photograph is published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror
 

1935 Persia is renamed Iran
 

1997 Comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth in the skies over the northern hemisphere. The comet’s next pass is predicted for the year 4397.


2 comments:

  1. I missed goof off day? I'll have to try again today. LOL

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    1. You definitely have my permission to try again today, or any day. Goof Off Day MUST be celebrated!

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