INTERNATIONAL Strange Music Day
NATIONAL Pluto Demoted Day
NATIONAL Vesuvius Day
NATIONAL Burger Day
NATIONAL Knife Day
NATIONAL Peach Pie Day
NATIONAL Waffle Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
79 Mount Vesuvius erupts, destroying Pompeii, Stabiae, Herculaneum and other smaller settlements
1814 The British set fire to the White House and the Capitol when they invaded Washington, DC during the War of 1812
1847 Charlotte Bronte, using the pseudonym Currer Bell, sends a manuscript of Jane Eyre to her publisher in London
1869 Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York, patents the waffle iron
1891 Thomas Edison files a patent for the motion picture camera
1894 Congress passes the first graduated income tax law, which is declared unconstitutional the next year
1954 Congress outlaws the Communist Party in the United States
1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for murdering former Beatles band member John Lennon
1989 Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti bans Pete Rose from baseball for gambling
1992 Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Florida as a Category 5 storm, resulting in $26.5 billion in US damages, causing 65 US deaths, and felling 70,000 acres of trees in the Everglades
2006 Pluto is downgraded to a dwarf planet when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines “planet”
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