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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1851 Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick is published in New York
1889 Nellie Bly set out to beat Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg's time of 80 days to travel around the world. She did it in 72.
1908 Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light
1910 Lieutenant Eugene Ely of the US Navy becomes the first man to take off in an airplane from the deck of a ship
1921 The Cherokee Indians ask the US Supreme Court to review their claim to one million acres of land in Texas
1922 The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins the first daily radio broadcasts from Marconi House
1935 Nazis deprive German Jews of their citizenship
1960 OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) is formed
1963 Iceland gets a new island when a volcano pushes its way up out of the sea five miles off the southern coast
1968 Yale University announces its plan to go co-ed
2002 Nancy Pelosi of California became the first woman to lead a party in Congress
2003 Sedna, the most distant object ever found in our solar system, was discovered by astronomers at the Mount Palomar Observatory in California
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