July 24
NATIONAL Cousins Day
NATIONAL Drive-Thru Day
NATIONAL Tell an Old Joke Day
NATIONAL Tequila Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned and forced to abdicate her throne to her 1-year-old son James VI
1866 Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War
1938 Instant coffee was invented. Nestle came up with the first instant coffee after 8 years of experiments.
1974 The Supreme Court rules that President Richard Nixon must surrender the Watergate tapes
1870 The first trans-US rail service began
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