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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1504 Michelangelo’s 13-foot marble statue of David is unveiled in Florence, Italy
1900 Galveston is devastated by a hurricane: 6,000-8,000 die
1952 Ernest Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea was published
1960 Penguin Books in Britain is charged with obscenity for trying to publish the DH Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover
1960 NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, was dedicated
1966 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC
1974 President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard M Nixon for any crimes arising from the Watergate scandal he may have committed while in office
1988 Wildfires in Yellowstone National Park in the US, the world’s first national park, force evacuation of the historic Old Faithful Inn. Visitors and employees evacuate but the inn is saved.
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