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22nd May 1849: Abraham Lincoln becomes the first and only President to be awarded a patent

22nd May 2022
Tagged as: Abraham Lincoln, Boat, Engineering, Invention, Mechanical, Patent, River, Smithsonian, United States, USA

Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for his invention to lift boats over shoals and other obstructions in a river.

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24th April 1916: Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions set off in James Caird, a recovered lifeboat, to sail from Elephant Island to South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean

24th April 2022
Tagged as: Adventure, Antarctica, Atlantic, Boat, Elephant Island, Expedition, Exploration, Sailing, Sheckleton, South Georgia

Despite all the odds stacked against them, the crew of the tiny boat reached South Georgia in 16 days and then crossed to the whaling station at Stromness.

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22nd May 1849: Abraham Lincoln becomes the first and only President to be awarded a patent

24th April 1916: Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions set off in James Caird, a recovered lifeboat, to sail from Elephant Island to South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

21st March 1921: The New Economic Policy introduced to the USSR by Vladimir Lenin

20th March 1602: The Dutch East India Company established

19th March 1962: Bob Dylan, the American singer-songwriter, releases his eponymous debut album

18th March 1834: Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation to Australia

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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