Wednesday, April 12, 2017

DAY 102 - This day in legal and military history

April 12
 

NATIONAL Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day
 

NATIONAL Big Wind Day
 

NATIONAL Licorice Day
 

NATIONAL Bookmobile Day [Wednesday of National Library Week]
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1606 England adopts the Union Jack as its flag

1844 Texas became a US territory
 

1861 Fort Sumter is shelled by the Confederacy, starting America’s Civil War
 

1877 The first catcher’s mask is used in a baseball game
 

1911 Pierre Prier completes the first non-stop London-Paris flight in three hours and 56 minutes
 

1954 Bill Haley records “Rock Around the Clock
 

1955 Dr. Jonas Salk’s discovery of a polio vaccine is announced
 

1961 Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes first man to orbit the Earth
 

1961 Douglas MacArthur declines offer to become baseball commissioner
 

1966 Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American major league umpire

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