WORLD Goth Day
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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1849 Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock
1906 The Wright brothers are granted US patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”
1947 The first US ballistic missile was fired
1967 The children’s program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood premiers
1972 Ceylon becomes the Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified
1973 President Nixon confessed his role in the Watergate cover-up
1985 Baseball player Pete Rose passes Hank Aaron as National League run scoring leader with 2,108
1992 Johnny Carson’s final appearance on The Tonight Show on NBC, after 30 years as the program’s host
2004 An EF4 tornado with a record-setting width of 2.5 miles wipes out Hallam, Nebraska, killing 1 person
2011 An EF5 tornado kills at least 158 people in Joplin, Missouri, the largest death toll from a tornado since record-keeping began in 1950
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