Thursday, April 13, 2017

DAY 103 - This day in legal and military history

April 13
 

NATIONAL Scrabble Day
 

NATIONAL Make Lunch Count Day
 

NATIONAL Peach Cobbler Day
 

NATIONAL Thomas Jefferson Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1742 Handel’s Messiah was first publicly performed in Dublin, Ireland
 

1860 First Pony Express reached Sacramento, California
 

1864 Union forces under General Sherman begin their devastating march through Georgia
 

1902 JC Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming
 

1964 Sidney Poitier becomes the first black individual to win an Oscar for best actor
 

1970 Apollo 13 announced "Houston, we've got a problem," when an oxygen tank burst on the way to the moon
 

1976 The US Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes
 

1980 US boycotted the Summer Olympics in Moscow
 

2009 The US rescinds travel and gift restrictions to Cuba
 

2014 In Overland Park, Kansas, an anti-Semitic white supremacist opens fire on two Jewish centers, killing three Christians
 

2036 Asteroid Apophis to make a near-Earth pass


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