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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1630 New Amsterdam’s governor bought Gull Island from Native Americans for cargo and renamed it Oyster Island. It later became Ellis Island.
1862 Congress authorized the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration awarded by the US government
1957 The US surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reports that there is a direct link between smoking and lung cancer
1960 The first Etch-A-Sketch went on sale
1974 G. Gordon Liddy, John Ehrlichman, and two others are convicted of conspiracy and perjury in connection with the Watergate scandal
1984 Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale chooses Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate, the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket
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