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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1215 King John signs the Magna Carta
1752 Benjamin Franklin and his son test the relationship between electricity and lightning by flying a kite in a thunder storm
1775 George Washington is named Commander-in-Chief by Congress
1836 Arkansas is admitted into the Union as the 25th state
1844 Charles Goodyear received a patent for the vulcanization of rubber, his process to strengthen rubber
1864 Robert E Lee's home, Arlington, becomes a military cemetery
1992 Vice President Dan Quayle's "potatoe" spelling incident
2002 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger was knighted by Queen Elizabeth
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