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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1885 Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time
1890 The Territory of Oklahoma is created
1919 The first US air passenger service starts
1923 Lieutenants Oakley Kelly and John Macready take off from New York for the West Coast on what will become the first successful nonstop transcontinental flight
1939 Lou Gehrig established a new major-league baseball record when he played his 2,130th consecutive game. It would take another 57 years before Cal Ripken, Jr., broke it.
1946 Prisoners revolt at California’s Alcatraz prison
1955 Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1970 Student anti-war protesters at Ohio’s Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard takes control of the campus.
2012 A pastel version of The Scream, by painter Edvard Munch, sold for $120 million in a New York City auction. The transaction set a new world record for an auctioned piece of art
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