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10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution

10th August 2020
Tagged as: History, Museum, Science, Smithsonian, Washington, Washington DC

It had taken Congress eight years to agree on how to fulfil James Smithson’s desire to establish and institution ‘for the increase and diffusion of knowledge’.

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

22nd May 2020
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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10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution

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

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26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store

2nd September 31 BCE: Marc Antony and Cleopatra defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium

3rd July 1940: British navy attacks the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir

20th March 1602: The Dutch East India Company established

28th September 1781: The Siege of Yorktown begins in the American Revolutionary War

27th September 1908: First Model T Ford produced in Detroit

26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate

25th September 1513: European ‘discovery’ of the Pacific Ocean

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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