December 29
NATIONAL Pepper Pot Day
NATIONAL Tick Tock Day
NATIONAL No Interruptions Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1607 Indian Chief Powhatan spares John Smith’s life after the pleas of his daughter Pocahontas
1845 Texas is admitted as the 28th state of the Union
1851 The first Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) opened in Boston
1890 The US Cavalry kills 146 Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
1891 Edison patented the “transmission of signals electrically” (radio)
1950 Time magazine selected “GI Joe” as the Man of the Year
Writer, California attorney, stumbling through the courtrooms of Southern California
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Seriously, there is a National No Interru--
ReplyDeleteLOL it's National NO Interruptions Day.
DeleteHow's Wideload doing?
I wonder what Edison would say about twitter.
ReplyDeleteInteresting thought. I wonder too.
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