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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1270 The Seventh Crusade ends by the Treaty of Barbary
1838 Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Lorain County, Ohio becomes the first college in the US to admit female students
1862 Dr. Richard Gatling patented a machine gun consisting of six barrels mounted in a revolving frame
1938 HG Wells’ War of the Worlds is broadcast over the radio by Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre, causing a panic as people believed it was an actual newscast about a Martian invasion
1945 US announces the end of shoe rationing
1954 Defense Department announces elimination of all segregated units
1961 The USSR detonates “Tsar Bomba,” a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb; as of 2016 it is still the largest explosive device of any kind ever detonated
1974 At the “Rumble in the Jungle,” a boxing match in Zaire, challenger Muhammad Ali knocks out previously undefeated World Heavyweight Champion George Foreman
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