Saturday, April 15, 2017

DAY 105 - This day in legal and military history

April 15
 

NATIONAL Tax Day [except this year, Tax Day is not until April 18]
 

NATIONAL Take a Wild Guess Day
 

NATIONAL Glazed Spiral Ham Day
 

NATIONAL Rubber Eraser Day
 

NATIONAL Titanic Remembrance Day
 

NATIONAL Auctioneers Day [third Saturday in April]
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1817 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet opened the first free American school for the deaf in Hartford, Connecticut
 

1912 With her band playing on the deck in the North Atlantic, the ocean liner Titanic sinks at 2:27 am
 

1923 Insulin becomes generally available for people suffering with diabetes
 

1955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald’s chain of fast food restaurants

2013 Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others

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