Friday, March 24, 2017

DAY 83 - This day in legal and military history

March 24
 

NATIONAL Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1883 Long-distance telephone service was inaugurated between Chicago and New York
 

1941 Donald Duck enlists in the Army, for the first of six war cartoons
 

1955 Tennessee Williams’ play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens at the Morosco Theatre in New York City
 

1980 ABC’s nightly Iran Hostage crisis program was renamed “Nightline
 

1989 The Exxon Valdez oil tanker spills 240,000 barrels of oil in Alaska’s Prince William Sound

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