Friday, September 8, 2017

Day 251 - This day in legal and military history

September 8
 

WORLD Physical Therapy Day
 

INTERNATIONAL Literacy Day
 

NATIONAL Pardon Day
 

NATIONAL Iguana Awareness Day 

NATIONAL Actors Day
 

NATIONAL Star Trek Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1504 Michelangelo’s 13-foot marble statue of David is unveiled in Florence, Italy
 

1900 Galveston is devastated by a hurricane: 6,000-8,000 die
 

1952 Ernest Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea was published
 

1960 Penguin Books in Britain is charged with obscenity for trying to publish the DH Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover
 

1960 NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, was dedicated
 

1966 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC
 

1974 President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard M Nixon for any crimes arising from the Watergate scandal he may have committed while in office
 

1988 Wildfires in Yellowstone National Park in the US, the world’s first national park, force evacuation of the historic Old Faithful Inn.  Visitors and employees evacuate but the inn is saved.

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