Saturday, December 30, 2017

Day 364 - This day in legal and military history

December 30
 

NATIONAL Bacon Day
 

NATIONAL Bicarbonate of Soda Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1862 The draft of the Emancipation Proclamation is finished and circulated among President Abraham Lincoln‘s cabinet for comment
 

1922 Soviet Russia is renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
 

1940 California's first freeway opened 
San Jose freeway interchange

2006 Saddam Hussein, former Iraq dictator, is executed by hanging for crimes committed against his own people during his rule

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