WORLD Freedom Day
NATIONAL Chaos Never Dies Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1620 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts
1872 Great Fire of Boston - 13 die and more than 775 buildings burn
1887 The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
1888 Jack the Ripper killed his last victim, Mary Jane Kelly
1921 USS Olympia arrives at the Washington Navy Yard from France carrying the body of the Unknown Soldier for internment at Arlington National Cemetery
1965 Nine Northeastern states and parts of Canada go dark in the worst power failure in history
1970 The Supreme Court refuses to hear a challenge by the state of Massachusetts regarding the constitutionality of the Vietnam War
1979 NORAD goes on full alert when a computer glitch indicates a massive wave of incoming Soviet missiles
1989 The Berlin Wall is opened after dividing the city for 28 years
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