Monday, April 17, 2017

DAY 107 - This day in legal and military history

April 17
 

WORLD Hemophilia Day
 

NATIONAL Bat Appreciation Day
 

NATIONAL Haiku Poetry Day
 

NATIONAL Ellis Island Family History Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1492 Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spain to find a western route to the Indies
 

1861 Virginia becomes the eighth state to secede from the Union
 

1937 Daffy Duck made his debut in Porky's Duck Hunt

1970 Apollo 13, originally scheduled to land on the moon, lands back safely on Earth after an accident
 

1986 IBM produced its first megabit-chip

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