(day 3 of “world space week”)
“german-american day”
(commemorates date in 1683 when 13 german families from ‘krefeld’ (near ‘the rhine’) landed in philadelphia)
(they founded “germantown” in pennsylvania)
(the first german settlement in the original 13 colonies)
(they organized the first petition in the english colonies to abolish slavery in 1688)
“national noodle day”