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NATIONAL Oyster Day
NATIONAL Mustard Day [first Saturday in August]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1858 The first transatlantic cable is completed
1861 US Army prohibits flogging
1861 US levies the first federal income tax; 3% on incomes over $800
1884 The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe's Island
1914 The first electric traffic signal lights are installed in Cleveland, Ohio
1969 The US space probe Mariner 7 flew by Mars, sending back photographs and scientific data
1981 President Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers
1986 US Senate voted for the Strategic Defense Initiative project, better known as Star Wars
1992 Four police officers are indicted on civil rights charges in the beating of Rodney King
2012 The plutonium-powered rover Curiosity successfully lands on Mars
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