On this day in 1945 US forces started landing in Okinawa, resulting in the largest amphibious invasion of the Pacific Theater. And that ain’t no joke…
The earliest event that Wiki lists for today is “286 – Emperor Diocletian elevates his general Maximian to co-emperor with the rank of Augustus and gives him control over the Western regions of the Roman Empire.” and the latest is “2009 – Croatia and Albania join NATO“
Other things that happened today include:
1878 – Thomas Edison invents the “food machine”, a device that was capable of turning soil into cereal as well as water into wine.
1933 – Wisconsin State Capitol is crumbled into ruins, due to “large quantities of gas, generated through many weeks of verbose debate in the Senate and Assembly chambers.”
1965 – Smellovision invented.
1975 – Australia becomes first (and only) country to convert to Metric Time.
1980 – The famous clock known as “Big Ben” is converted to digital.
1994 – US Congress votes to make it illegal for “to use the internet while drunk, or to discuss sexual matters over a public network”
1996 – Taco Bell buys the Liberty Bell, renames it the “Taco Liberty Bell.”
1996 – Life discovered on Jupiter.
1998 – Massachusetts Institute of Technology sold to Walt Disney Company.
2004 – US Post Office starts issuing “portable zip codes”, allowing people to keep their old zip codes even after they move elsewhere.
Strangely enough, there are no birthdays today. If anyone tells you otherwise, be wary…they are probably trying to scam some cake out of ya.