DAY 89 - This day in legal and military history

March 30
 
NATIONAL Take a Walk in the Park Day
 
NATIONAL Doctors Day
 
NATIONAL I am in Control Day
 
NATIONAL Pencil Day
 

Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 
1842 Anesthesia was used for the first time in an operation
 
1858 Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patents the pencil with an eraser attached on one end
 
1870 The 15th Amendment passes, guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race
 
1870 President US Grant signs bill readmitting Texas to the Union, the last Confederate state readmitted
 
1942 The Coast Guard was designated as a service of the Navy, similar to the Marine Corps
 
1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first collaboration, Oklahoma, opens on Broadway
 
1964 The game show Jeopardy debuted on television
 
1981 President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded in Washington, DC by John W. Hinckley Jr.