February 15 - 10 Flag Codes

 Canada's telltale maple leaf was officially adopted on this day in 1965.

The official "National Flag Day of Canada" was declared in 1996.

Also on this day in 2001 in the journal "Nature" the human genome was officially first officially fully mapped and published.

Kind of a cool concept when you think about it, being able to go in and read allele by allele.  21 years later there's so much we can.

It's also on this day in 1971 that the Brits decided to start using 'decimalized' currency.  Meaning that currency was now based on 10s.  

Prior to this a pound was 20 shillings.  Each shilling was 12 pence.  Now a pound is just 100 p (instead of 240).

January 28 - blocks for flags

 In 1949, a little company from Denmark started to build plastic blocks, and it wasn't until this day in 1958 that the patent for the little Lego was filed.

What an amazing little toy that nearly anybody over the world has probably played with (or stepped on).

And although officially the new Canadian flag wasn't officially adopted by Canada until later in the year, it was this day that the design was chosen in Parliament in 1965.