Wednesday, April 5, 2017

DAY 95 - This day in legal and military history

April 5

NATIONAL Read a Road Map Day
 

NATIONAL First Contact Day
 

NATIONAL Deep Dish Pizza Day
 

NATIONAL Go for Broke Day
 

NATIONAL Walking Day [First Wednesday in April]
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1614 Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
 

1792 George Washington casts the first presidential veto
 

1887 Lord Acton writes, "Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely"
 

1896 First modern Olympic Games begin in Athens, with 8 nations participating
 

2010 The United States Supreme Court declines to take up a case by residents of Bikini Atoll and Enewetak in the Marshall Islands, who are seeking compensation for US nuclear tests conducted on the islands



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