Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Day 228 - This day in legal and military history

August 16
 

WORLD Bratwurst Day
 

NATIONAL Wave at Surveillance Cameras Day
 

NATIONAL Tell a Joke Day
 

NATIONAL Rollercoaster Day 

NATIONAL Rum Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1691 Yorktown, Virginia, was founded
 

1777 France declares a state of bankruptcy
 

1858 US President James Buchanan and Britain’s Queen Victoria exchange messages inaugurating the first transatlantic telegraph line
 

1861 President Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy
 

1988 IBM introduces artificial intelligence software

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