WORLD Red Cross Day
NATIONAL No Socks Day
NATIONAL V-E Day [Victory in Europe after WWII]
NATIONAL Have a Coke Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1792 US established a military draft
1794 The United States Post Office is established
1861 Richmond Virginia was named the capital of the Confederacy
1877 The first Westminster Dog Show was held
1886 Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton invents Coca Cola
1902 Mount Pelee on Martinique erupted, destroying the town of St. Pierre and killing 40,000 people
1945 The final surrender of German forces is celebrated as V-E (Victory Europe) day
1952 US conducts the first H-Bomb test at Eniwetok Atoll
1978 David Berkowitz, aka the “Son of Sam,” plead guilty to killing six people in New York City
1980 The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that smallpox had been eradicated
1999 The Citadel, South Carolina’s formerly all-male military school, graduated its first female cadet, Nancy Ruth Mace
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