1709<\/b> — Bartolomeu de Gusm\u00e3o demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal.<\/p>\n
1844<\/b> — The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.<\/p>\n
1876<\/b> — Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.<\/p>\n
1908<\/b> — Wilbur Wright makes his first public flight (and it was at a racecourse at Le Mans, France — what’s with that!).<\/p>\n
1911<\/b> — Francis Holton files a patent for a tubeless vehicle tire. Nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine patents had been filed before his, albeit not for tubeless tires.<\/p>\n
1911<\/b> — Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435 (but it doesn’t go into effect until 1913).<\/p>\n
1945<\/b> — The United States becomes the third signatory nation of the United Nations Charter.<\/p>\n
1973<\/b> — US Vice President Spiro Agnew appears on television to denounce accusations he had taken kickbacks while governor of Maryland.<\/p>\n
1974<\/b> — US President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day.<\/p>\n
1990<\/b> — Iraq occupies Kuwait.<\/p>\n
2009<\/b> — Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in as the first Latina justice of the US Supreme Court — and she’s also the first Hispanic justice and the first Puerto Rican justice and the first woman justice (after Sandra and Ruth, of course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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