Temporary Insanity Day

When Celebrated

Always on February 19th

Gifty-ness

About the Holiday

National Temporary Insanity Day - We can all thank Daniel E. Sickles, a New York congressman, who was the first man to be acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity on February 19, 1859 for this holiday. Sickles crime? He shot and killed the man he accused of having an affair with his wife. The man just happened to be Washington, DC District Attorney Philip Barton Key, son of Francis Scott Key - the author of the “Star Spangled Banner.”

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