Friday, March 31, 2017

DAY 90 - This day in legal and military history

March 31
 

End of first quarter
 

Cesar Chavez Day
 

NATIONAL Bunsen Burner Day
 

NATIONAL Clams on the Half-Shell Day
 

NATIONAL Crayon Day 

NATIONAL Prom Day
 

NATIONAL Tater Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1836 The first monthly installment of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens is published in London
 

1880 The first electric street lights ever installed by a municipality are turned on in Wabash, Indiana
 

1889 The Eiffel Tower in Paris officially opens on the Left Bank as part of the Exhibition of 1889
 

1917 The United States purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million
 

1918 Daylight Saving Time goes into effect throughout the United States for the first time
 

1940 La Guardia airport in New York officially opens to the public
 

1949 Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province
 

1992 USS Missouri (BB-63), the last active American battleship, is decommissioned
 

1995 Coast Guard Communication Area Master Station Atlantic sent a final message by Morse Code and then signed off, officially ending more than 100 years of telegraph communication
 

1995 Major League Baseball players agreed to end the sport’s longest strike in history after a judge ordered a preliminary injunction against team owners
 

2005 Terry Schiavo died 13 days after her feeding tube was removed

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