where did the term d day come from
D-Day (military term) The earliest use of these terms by the United States Army that the U.S. Army Center of Military History has been able to find was during World War I.[3] In Field Order Number 9, First Army, American Expeditionary Forces, dated 7 September 1918: "The First Army will attack at H hour on D day with the object of forcing the evacuation of the St. Mihiel Salient."
Holy Roller Merriam-Webster traces the word to 1841.[3] The Oxford English Dictionary cites an 1893 memoir by Charles Godfrey Leland, in which he says "When the Holy Spirit seized them ... the Holy Rollers ... rolled over and over on the floor."[6]
Star-crossed The phrase was coined in the prologue of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet:
Eight-hour day On 19 May 1869, President Ulysses Grant issued a National Eight Hour Law Proclamation.[16]