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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1676 Great Fire of Boston destroys 160 buildings
1786 The US Congress adopted the silver dollar and decimal system of money
1854 Smith and Wesson patented metal bullet cartridges
1876 Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph
1890 Daughters of American Revolution (DAR) is organized
1899 The first household refrigerating machine is patented
1908 The Wright Brothers made their first public flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France
1945 The Soviet Union declares war on Japan
1963 England’s “Great Train Robbery” - 2.6 million pounds ($7.3 million) is stolen
1969 Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanski, and four others were murdered by members of Charles Manson's "family"
1972 Navy women authorized for sea duty as regular ship’s company
1974 President Richard Nixon resigns from the presidency as a result of the Watergate scandal
1978 Pioneer-Venus 2 is launched to probe the atmosphere of Venus
1988 Cease fire ends the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
2003 A US federal judge ruled that 264,000 square miles of submerged lands in the Northern Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth, belong to the United States
2007 An EF2 tornado hits Brooklyn, New York, the first in that borough since 1889
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