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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1606 England adopts the Union Jack as its flag
1844 Texas became a US territory
1861 Fort Sumter is shelled by the Confederacy, starting America’s Civil War
1877 The first catcher’s mask is used in a baseball game
1911 Pierre Prier completes the first non-stop London-Paris flight in three hours and 56 minutes
1954 Bill Haley records “Rock Around the Clock”
1955 Dr. Jonas Salk’s discovery of a polio vaccine is announced
1961 Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes first man to orbit the Earth
1961 Douglas MacArthur declines offer to become baseball commissioner
1966 Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American major league umpire
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