Thursday, March 23, 2017

DAY 82 - This day in legal and military history

March 23
 

NATIONAL Chip and Dip Day
 

NATIONAL OK Day
 

NATIONAL Puppy Day 

NATIONAL Near Miss Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1743 Handel’s Messiah is performed for the first time in London
 

1775 American revolutionary hero Patrick Henry, while addressing the House of Burgesses, declares “give me liberty, or give me death!”
 

1839 First recorded use of “OK” [oll korrect] was in Boston’s Morning Post
 

1857 Elisha Otis installs the first modern passenger elevator in a public building, at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway in New York City
 

1903 The Wright brothers obtain an airplane patent
 

1909 British Lt. Ernest Shackleton finds the magnetic South Pole
 

1981 US Supreme Court upholds a law making statutory rape a crime for men but not women
 

1998 The motion picture epic “Titanic” won 11 Oscars at the 70th Academy Awards, tying it with “Ben-Hur” for the most ever
 

2002 Girls in Afghanistan celebrated their return to school for the first time in years
 

2010 President Barack Obama signed a health-care overhaul bill, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, into law

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