November 10
NATIONAL Forget-Me-Not Day
NATIONAL Marine Corps Day
NATIONAL Area Code Day
NATIONAL Sesame Street Day
NATIONAL Vanilla Cupcake Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1775 The US Marine Corps is founded
1951 Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States
1969 The PBS children’s program Sesame Street debuts
1970 The Great Wall of China opened to the world for tourism
1972 Hijackers divert a jet to Detroit, demanding $10 million and ten parachutes
1975 The iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald breaks in half and sinks in a storm at the eastern end of Lake Superior; all 29 crew members perish
1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened in Washington, DC
1983 Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0
1989 German citizens begin tearing down the Berlin Wall
Writer, California attorney, stumbling through the courtrooms of Southern California
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