Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Day 277 - This day in legal and military history

October 4
 

WORLD Animal Day
 

NATIONAL Golf Day
 

NATIONAL Ship in a Bottle Day
 

NATIONAL Improve Your Office Day
 

NATIONAL Taco Day
 

NATIONAL Vodka Day
 

NATIONAL Golf Lover's Day
 

NATIONAL Walk to School Day [first Wednesday of October]
 

NATIONAL Pumpkin Seed Day [first Wednesday of October]
 

NATIONAL Kale Day [first Wednesday of October]
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1895 The first US Open Golf tournament was held in Newport, Rhode Island
 

1927 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting the heads of four US presidents on Mount Rushmore

1957 Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, is launched, beginning the “space race”
 

1965 Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope ever to visit the US and the Western hemisphere
 

1976 In Gregg v. Georgia, the US Supreme Court lifts the ban on the death sentence in murder cases, restoring the legality of capital punishment. The first execution following this ruling was of Gary Gilmore in 1977.
 

1985 The Free Software Foundation is founded to promote universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software

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