Monday, August 28, 2017

Day 240 - This day in legal and military history

August 28
 

NATIONAL Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day
 

NATIONAL Crackers Over the Keyboard Day
 

NATIONAL Cherry Turnover Day
 

NATIONAL Radio Commercials Day
 

NATIONAL Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day
 

NATIONAL Bow Tie Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1922 The first commercial to be broadcast on radio aired on station WEAF in New York City. The ten minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Company cost $100.
 

1938 The first degree given to a ventriloquist’s dummy is awarded to Charlie McCarthy–Edgar Bergen’s wooden partner
 

1963 One of the largest demonstrations in the history of the United States, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, takes place and reaches its climax at the base of the Lincoln Memorial when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I have a dream” speech
 

2005 Hurricane Katrina reaches Category 5 strength. The Louisiana Superdome is opened as a “refuge of last resort” in New Orleans.

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