April 21
NATIONAL Kindergarten Day
NATIONAL Bulldogs are Beautiful Day
NATIONAL Chocolate Covered Cashews Day
NATIONAL Day of Silence
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1855 The first train crossed the Mississippi River’s first bridge
1862 Congress establishes the US Mint
1918 German fighter ace Baron von Richthofen, “The Red Baron,” is shot down and killed
1928 Bomb explosion in a midtown Manhattan loft, nine injured. The case remains unresolved.
1997 The ashes of Timothy Leary, Gene Roddenberry, and 22 others blasted into space for the first space funerals
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