Friday, June 30, 2017

Day 181 - This day in legal and military history

June 30
 

End of Second Quarter, End of first half of the year
 

NATIONAL Meteor Watch Day
 

NATIONAL Social Media Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1834 Congress placed the Marine Corps under Navy jurisdiction
 

1859 Jean Francois Gravelet aka Emile Blondin, a French daredevil acrobat, becomes the first man to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope
 

1908 A mysterious explosion, possibly the result of a meteorite, levels thousands of trees in the Tunguska region of Siberia with a force approaching twenty megatons

1936 Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone With the Wind, is published
 

1958 Congress passed a law authorizing the admission of Alaska as the 49th state in the Union, the first new state since 1912
 

1960 Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho, opens
 

1997 Hong Kong reverts to China, ending 150 years of British rule

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