NATIONAL Clean Up Your Room Day
NATIONAL Receptionist Day [second Wednesday in May]
NATIONAL Third Shift Workers Day [second Wednesday in May]
NATIONAL School Nurses Day [Wednesday of National Nurses Week]
NATIONAL Bike to School Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1773 To keep the troubled East India Company afloat, Parliament passes the Tea Act, taxing all tea in the American colonies
1869 The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, creating the first transcontinental railroad
1872 Victoria Woodhull becomes first the woman nominated for US president
1924 J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1928 WGY-TV in Schenectady, New York, begins regular television programming
1960 The USS Nautilus completes the first circumnavigation of the globe underwater
1994 Nelson Mandela is sworn in as South Africa’s first black president
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