Day 363 - This day in legal and military history

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