Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Day 319 - This day in legal and military history

November 15
 

America Recycles Day
 

NATIONAL Clean Your Refrigerator Day

NATIONAL Philanthropy Day
 

NATIONAL I Love to Write Day
 

NATIONAL Raisin Bran Cereal Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1626 The Pilgrim Fathers, who settled in New Plymouth, buy out their London investors
 

1777 The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, the precursor to the US Constitution
 

1881 The American Federation of Labor is founded
 

1920 Forty-one nations open the first League of Nations session in Geneva
 

1960 The first submarine with nuclear missiles, the USS George Washington, takes to sea from Charleston, South Carolina
 

1969 A quarter of a million anti-Vietnam War demonstrators march in Washington, DC

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