NATIONAL Garlic Day
NATIONAL Hanging Out Day
NATIONAL Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1775 The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts
1933 The United States went off the gold standard by presidential proclamation
1939 Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights
1960 Baseball uniforms begin displaying player’s names on their backs
1977 Alex Haley receives a special Pulitzer Prize for his book Roots
1993 The FBI ends a 51-day siege by storming the Branch Davidian religious cult headquarters in Waco, Texas
1995 A truck bomb explodes in front of the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people
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