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.
I missed goof off day? I'll have to try again today. LOL
ReplyDeleteYou definitely have my permission to try again today, or any day. Goof Off Day MUST be celebrated!
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