Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Day 325 - This day in legal and military history

November 21
 

WORLD Hello Day  

WORLD Television Day
 

NATIONAL Entrepreneurs Day
 

NATIONAL False Confession Day
 

NATIONAL Stuffing Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1338 An archer named Robin Hood enlists in the service of King Edward III at the garrison on the Isle of Wight
 

1620 Leaders of the Mayflower expedition frame the “Mayflower Compact,” designed to bolster unity among the settlers
 

1789 North Carolina becomes the 12th state in the Union
 

1794 Honolulu Harbor was discovered
 

1904 Motorized omnibuses replace horse-drawn cars in Paris

1973 The 18-1/2 min gap in the Richard Nixon Watergate tapes was revealed
 

2014 The United States House of Representatives files a lawsuit against President Barack Obama for executive actions undertaken in relation to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act

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