Thursday, November 16, 2017

Day 320 - This day in legal and military history

November 16
 

INTERNATIONAL Tolerance Day
 

NATIONAL Button Day
 

NATIONAL Have a Party with Your Bear Day
 

NATIONAL Fast Food Day
 

NATIONAL Use Less Stuff Day
 

Great American Smoke-Out [third Thursday of November]
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1864 Union General William T. Sherman departs Atlanta and begins his “March to the Sea”
 

1907 The Indian and Oklahoma territories are unified to make Oklahoma, which becomes the 46th state
 

1914 The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens
 

1920 Metered mail begins in Stamford, Connecticut with the first Pitney Bowes postage meter
 

1933 The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations
 

1973 President Nixon signed the bill authorizing the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline 

2004 President George W. Bush nominated Condoleezza Rice to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state

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