Monday, May 22, 2017

Day 142 - This day in legal and military history

May 22
 

WORLD Goth Day
 

NATIONAL Buy a Musical Instrument Day
 

NATIONAL Maritime Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1849 Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock
 

1906 The Wright brothers are granted US patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”
 

1947 The first US ballistic missile was fired
 

1967 The children’s program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood premiers
 

1972 Ceylon becomes the Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified
 

1973 President Nixon confessed his role in the Watergate cover-up
 

1985 Baseball player Pete Rose passes Hank Aaron as National League run scoring leader with 2,108
 

1992 Johnny Carson’s final appearance on The Tonight Show on NBC, after 30 years as the program’s host
 

2004 An EF4 tornado with a record-setting width of 2.5 miles wipes out Hallam, Nebraska, killing 1 person
 

2011 An EF5 tornado kills at least 158 people in Joplin, Missouri, the largest death toll from a tornado since record-keeping began in 1950

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