Friday, November 17, 2017

Day 321 - This day in legal and military history

November 17
 

WORLD Peace Day
 

WORLD Prematurity Day
 

NATIONAL Electronic Greeting Card Day
 

NATIONAL Homemade Bread Day
 

NATIONAL Take a Hike Day 

NATIONAL Petroleum Day
 

NATIONAL Unfriend Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1800 Congress meets in Washington, DC, for the first time
 

1869 The Suez Canal is formally opened
 

1913 The first ship sails through the Panama Canal
 

1918 US influenza deaths far exceed World War I casualties
 

1969 Soviet and US negotiators meet in Helsinki to begin the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
 

1973 President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Florida, that “people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”
 

1988 Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister, the first woman to lead a modern Muslim state
 

2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as governor of California


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