Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Day 353 - This day in legal and military history

December 19
 

NATIONAL Look for an Evergreen Day
 

NATIONAL Oatmeal Muffin Day
 

NATIONAL Ugly Sweater Day
 

NATIONAL Underdog Day
 

NATIONAL Hard Candy Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1732 Benjamin Franklin began publishing Poor Richard's Almanac
 

1777 Washington's army takes up winter quarters at Valley Forge
 

1843 Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol"
 

1972 Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings

1998 President Bill Clinton becomes the second president in American history to be impeached
 

2001 The fires that had burned beneath the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York City for the previous three months were declared extinguished except for a few scattered hot spots

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