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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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

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

7th June 1520: Henry VIII and Francis I meet at the Field of Cloth of Gold

6th June 1944: D-Day landings launched by the Allied forces of the Second World War in Normandy

5th June 1883: First Orient Express train departs Paris

4th June 1913: Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison knocked down by a racehorse at the Epsom Derby after she stepped onto the track

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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