Saturday, May 6, 2017

Day 126 - This day in legal and military history

May 6
 

NATIONAL Beverage Day
 

NATIONAL Tourists Appreciation Day
 

NATIONAL Nurses Day
 

NATIONAL No Diet Day
 

NATIONAL No Homework Day
 

NATIONAL Scrapbook Day [first Saturday in May]
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1861 Arkansas becomes the ninth state to secede from the Union
 

1889 Dedication of the Eiffel Tower
 

1937 The dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey

1941 Bob Hope gives his first USO show at California’s March Field
 

1954 British runner Roger Bannister breaks the four minute mile
 

1960 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960
 

1962 The first nuclear warhead is fired from a Polaris submarine
 

1970 More than 100 universities across the US shut down as thousands of students join a nationwide campus protest
 

1994 The Channel Tunnel linking England to France is officially opened

2 comments:

  1. I don't know about over here, but when I was a kid in the UK, having "No Homework Day" on a Saturday would have sucked big time. :)

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    1. I thought about how much it didn't make sense when I was scheduling the post. Glad to see I'm not the only one!

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