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