Post_Office

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 - 
The Congress shall have the power ... To establish Post Offices and post Roads;  (Clauses 1 & 7) 
This has been interpreted quite broadly as to the powers and authority cnveyed to Congress and, indirectly, to the post office itself. However, it has also been ruled that it does not give the Post Office a monopoly on mail (and package) delivery.

On this day in history:

0878 – Louis the Stammerer was crowned as king of West Francia 

1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee made the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
1812 – The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought near Moscow.
1857 – Mormon settlers slaughtered most members of peaceful, emigrant wagon train in the Mountain Meadows massacre.
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi entered Naples.
1901 – The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ended with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flew his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
1916 – US federal employees won the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
1936 – The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, died alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
1965 – US Marines and South Vietnamese forces started Operation Piranha during which the Marines blew up a Vietnamese field hospital situated in a cave, claiming that some of the occupants had returned fire when they attacked and invaded it.
1977 – The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal were signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.  This infamously led to the US invasion of Panama in 1989  under Bush I (CIA Bush) to remind them who was really in control.
1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asked the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
2005 – Egypt held its first-ever multi-party presidential election.
2008 – The US government took control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
2017 – Equifax announced a cyber-crime identity theft event potentially impacting approximately 1451/2 million U.S. consumers.

Born this day in:

1705 – Matthäus Günther, painter
1707 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, mathematician, cosmologist, and author
1726 – François-André Danican Philidor, chess player and composer
1740 – Johan Tobias Sergel, sculptor and illustrator
1777 – Heinrich Stölzel, horn player and composer (
1791 – Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, poet and author
1795 – John William Polidori, physician and author
1860 – Grandma Moses, painter
1887 – Edith Sitwell, poet and critic
1900 – Taylor Caldwell, author
1903 – Margaret Landon, missionary and author
1903 – Dorothy Marie Donnelly, poet and author
1904 – C. B. Colby,  author
1908 – Max Kaminsky, trumpet player and bandleader
1912 – David Packard, engineer and businessman, friend of Hewlett
1914 – Graeme Bell, pianist and composer
1914 – James Van Allen, physicist and philosopher
 
1915 – Kiyosi Itô, mathematician and academic
1917 – John Cornforth, chemist and academic,
1917 – Jacob Lawrence, painter and educator
1923 – Nancy Keesing, author and poet (
1930 – Sonny Rollins, saxophonist and composer
1934 – Mary Bauermeister, painter and illustrator
1934 – Little Milton, singer and guitarist
1936 – Buddy Holly, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1939 – Latimore, singer, songwriter, and pianist
1947 – Gloria Gaynor, singer and songwriter
1951 – Chrissie Hynde, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1951 – Morris Albert, singer and songwriter
1951 – Mark Isham, trumpet player and composer
1953 – Benmont Tench, keyboardist and songwriter
1956 – Michael Feinstein, singer and pianist
1956 – Diane Warren, songwriter
1957 – Jermaine Stewart, singer, songwriter, and dancer
1960 – Brad Houser, bass player
1961 – LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and songwriter
1961 – Jean-Yves Thibaudet, French pianist
1962 – Jennifer Egan, novelist and short story writer
1971 – Gene Pritsker, composer
1979 – Owen Pallett, singer, songwriter, and keyboard player

Died this day in:

I'll sleep when I'm dead
~~ Warren Zevon

1685 – William Carpenter, colonist, co-founded Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 
1833 – Hannah More, poet, playwright, and philanthropist
1881 – Sidney Lanier, poet and academic
1892  – John Greenleaf Whittier, poet and activist
1942 – Cecilia Beaux,  painter and academic
1949 – José Clemente Orozco, painter and illustrator
1951 – John French Sloan,  painter and etcher
1978 – Keith Moon, drummer 
1978 – Charles Williams, composer and conductor
1979 – I. A. Richards, literary critic and rhetorician
1981 – Christy Brown, author, poet, and painter
1990 – A. J. P. Taylor, historian and journalist (
1991 – Edwin McMillan, physicist and chemist,
2003 – Warren Zevon,  singer, songwriter, and musician
2010 – Barbara Holland, author
2015 – Guillermo Rubalcaba, pianist, composer, and bandleader

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Grandma Moses Day
Salami Day
National Beer Lovers Day
National Neither Snow Nor Rain Day

Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies