Day 150 - This day in legal and military history

May 30
 
NATIONAL Water a Flower Day
 
NATIONAL Hole in my Bucket Day
 
NATIONAL Mint Julep Day
 

Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 
1431 Joan of Arc is declared a heretic and burned at the stake by the English
 
1783 The first American daily newspaper, The Pennsylvania Evening Post, begins publishing in Philadelphia
 
1848 William Young patents the ice cream freezer
 
1854 The Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals the Missouri Compromise
 
1868 Memorial Day begins when two women place flowers on both Confederate and Union graves
 
1889 The brassiere is invented
 
1958 Unknown soldiers of WWII & Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery

 1962 The USS 'Arizona' Memorial dedicated in Pearl Harbor
 
2003 The US government lowered the terrorist threat level from orange to yellow