Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Day 214 - This day in legal and military history

August 2
 

NATIONAL Ice Cream Sandwich Day 

NATIONAL Coloring Book Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1776 The Continental Congress, having decided unanimously on the Declaration of Independence, affixes the signatures of the other delegates to the document
 

1876 Wild Bill Hickok is shot while playing poker
 

1887 Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire
 

1909 The first Lincoln pennies were minted
 

1990 Iraqi forces invade neighboring Kuwait, beginning the First Gulf War, "Desert Shield/Desert Storm"

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