Sunday, November 12, 2017

Day 316 - This day in legal and military history

November 12
 

WORLD Quality Day
 

NATIONAL Chicken Soup for the Soul Day
 

NATIONAL Fancy Rat and Mouse Day
 

NATIONAL Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day
 

NATIONAL Happy Hour Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1775 General Washington forbade the enlistment of blacks
 

1912 Robert Scott’s diary and dead body were found in Antarctica
 

1954 The Ellis Island Immigration Station closes, after welcoming some 12,000,000 new Americans

1968 The US Supreme Court voids an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools
 

1990 Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, publishes a formal proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web

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