End of Second Quarter, End of first half of the year
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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1834 Congress placed the Marine Corps under Navy jurisdiction
1859 Jean Francois Gravelet aka Emile Blondin, a French daredevil acrobat, becomes the first man to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope
1908 A mysterious explosion, possibly the result of a meteorite, levels thousands of trees in the Tunguska region of Siberia with a force approaching twenty megatons
1936 Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone With the Wind, is published
1958 Congress passed a law authorizing the admission of Alaska as the 49th state in the Union, the first new state since 1912
1960 Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho, opens
1997 Hong Kong reverts to China, ending 150 years of British rule
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