NATIONAL Blueberry Day
NATIONAL Video Games Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1663 The British crown grants Rhode Island a charter guaranteeing freedom of worship
1776 The first public reading of the Declaration of Independence was given in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1777 Vermont became the first colony to abolish slavery
1835 The US Liberty Bell in Philadelphia cracked while being tolled for Chief Justice John Marshall. It was never rung again.
1865 C.E. Barnes receives a US patent for a machine gun
1879 The first ship to use electric lights departs from San Francisco, California
1889 The Wall Street Journal began publication
1932 The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22
1963 US banned all monetary transactions with Cuba
1987 Lt. Col. Oliver North became a daytime TV star as the Iran-Contra hearings were televised throughout the US
My son says that National Video Games Day is like Mother's Day and Sunday: it should be every day. :)
ReplyDeleteMy kids aren't into video games so much, but they LOVE their phones!
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