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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1788 New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land
1834 Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper was patented
1898 Guam became a US territory
1939 Baseball legend Lou Gehrig is forced to quit baseball because of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - a disease which wastes muscles
1948 Berlin Airlift begins
1982 John Hinckley Jr. is found not guilty by reason of insanity for attempting to assassinate President Ronald Reagan
1989 The US Supreme Court decided that burning the US flag was protected under the First Amendment
2004 SpaceShipOne lifted off from the Mojave Desert in the initial stage of the world’s first attempted commercial space flight
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