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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1498 During his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus arrived at the island of Trinidad
1790 The US Patent Office opens, issuing the first US patent to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for a process of making fertilizer
1845 French Army bands adopt the recently invented Saxophone
1882 Belle and Sam Starr are charged with horse stealing in the Indian territory
1904 The Trans-Siberian railroad is completed, connecting the Ural mountains with Russia’s Pacific coast
1912 First attempt to launch an airplane by catapult is made at Annapolis
1964 The US space probe Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the Moon’s surface
1970 Black Tot Day: Parliament abolishes the Royal Navy's 330 year tradition of a daily issue of grog, replacing it with a daily can of beer
1987 An F4 tornado in Edmonton, Alberta kills 27 and causes $330 million in damages
1990 Bosnia-Herzegovina declares independence from Yugoslavia
1991 George HW Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
1991 The US Senate voted to allow women to fly combat aircraft
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