Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Day 136 - This day in legal and military history

May 16
 

NATIONAL Love a Tree Day
 

NATIONAL Sea Monkey Day
 

NATIONAL Wear Purple for Peace Day
 

NATIONAL Biographers Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1861 Tennessee officially admitted to the Confederacy. Kentucky proclaims its neutrality.
 

1884 Alaska became a US territory
 

1928 The first Academy Awards are held in Hollywood
 

1941 The Irving Berlin musical, Annie Get Your Gun, opened on Broadway
 

1954 The US Supreme Court unanimously rules for school integration in Brown v. Board of Education
 

1991 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the US Congress. 

2011 Due to massive flooding along the river, the United States Coast Guard closes 15 miles of the Mississippi River near Natchez, Mississippi

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