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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1520 Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan, having discovered a strait at the tip of South America [now called the Strait of Magellan], enters the Pacific Ocean
1868 Mt. Etna in Sicily violently erupts
1942 Coffee rationing went into effect in the US, continuing through World War II
1942 Almost 500 people died in the Coconut Grove nightclub fire in Boston
1948 Dr. Edwin Land’s first Polaroid cameras go on sale in Boston
1958 The US reported the first full-range firing of an ICBM
1963 Six days after the assassination of President Kennedy, President Johnson announced that the Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, would be renamed “The John F. Kennedy Space Center.” Residents voted in 1973 to change the name back to Cape Canaveral.
1980 Iranian naval and air forces destroy most of the Iraqi Navy
1990 Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Great Britain and John Major became the new prime minister
1995 President Clinton signed a $6 billion road bill that ended the federal 55 mile-an-hour speed limit
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