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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