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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1783 Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make the first public balloon flight
1794 The US Congress prohibits citizens from serving in any foreign armed forces
1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes the first installment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in The National Era
1884 Civil War hero General William T. Sherman refused the Republican nomination for president with the words, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected”
1917 US begins draft registration, 10 million eventually sign up
1933 The United States went off the gold standard
1968 Sirhan Sirhan shoots Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy after Kennedy’s victory in the pivotal California primary election
1973 Doris A. Davis becomes the first African-American woman to govern a city in a major metropolitan area when she is elected mayor of Compton, California
1981 The Centers for Disease Control published the first report about the disease that would later become known as AIDS
2004 Former US President Ronald Reagan dies at age 93
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