Tuesday, April 25, 2017

DAY 115 - This day in legal and military history

April 25
 

WORLD Penguin Day 

NATIONAL East Meets West Day
 

NATIONAL Hug a Plumber Day
 

NATIONAL DNA Day
 

NATIONAL Telephone Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1719 Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe is published in London
 

1792 The guillotine is first used to execute highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier
 

1859 Work begins on the Suez Canal in Egypt
 

1901 New York became the first state to require license plates on cars
 

1938 A seeing eye dog is used for the first time
 

1945 Delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations
 

1954 The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories
 

1956 Elvis Presley‘s “Heartbreak Hotel” goes to number one on the charts
 

1971 The country of Bangladesh is established
 

1982 Israel completes Sinai withdrawal, in accordance with Camp David accords
 

1983 The Pioneer 10 spacecraft crossed Pluto’s orbit on its voyage through the Milky Way

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