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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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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

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

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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

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

3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain

3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne

2nd October 1919: US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke while in office

1st October 1949: Mao Zedong declares the establishment of the People’s Republic of China

30th September 1967: Launch of BBC Radio 1 with the words ‘…and, good morning everyone. Welcome to the exciting new sound of Radio 1’

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

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

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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