Sunday, September 10, 2017

Day 253 - This day in legal and military history

September 10
 

WORLD Suicide Prevention Day
 

NATIONAL Sewing Machine Day
 

NATIONAL TV Dinner Day
 

NATIONAL Swap Ideas Day
 

NATIONAL Grandparents' Day [first Sunday after Labor Day]
 

NATIONAL Pet Memorial Day [second Sunday in September]
 

NATIONAL Hug Your Hound Day [second Sunday in September]
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1623 Lumber and furs are the first cargo to leave New Plymouth in North America for England
 

1846 Elias Howe patents the first practical sewing machine in the United States
 

1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandated gasoline rationing in the US as part of the country’s wartime efforts
 

1997 The $250 million Mars Global Surveyor successfully went into orbit around Mars for its two year mapping mission

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