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On this day in . . .
• 1874, Harry S. Parmelee, of New Haven, CT, received a patent for the sprinkler head
• 1877, Thomas Edison described the fundamentals of the phonograph to an assistant and instructed him to build the first one. ALSO: American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered the two moons of Mars, which he named Phobos and Deimos
• 1898, during the Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
• 1909, the first recorded use of the S.O.S. distress signal in North America was by the steamship SS Arapahoe, which had broken down off North Carolina's Cape Hatteras
• 1918, during World War I: Battle of Amiens ends
• 1919, Germany's Weimar Constitution was signed by President Friedrich Ebert
• 1920, the Latvia-Bolshevist Russia peace treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed
• 1929, Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio
• 1934, the first federal prisoners arrived at the island prison Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay
• 1942, during World War II, Pierre Laval, prime minister of Vichy France, publicly declared that "the hour of liberation for France is the hour when Germany wins the war."
• 1954, a formal peace took hold in Indochina, ending more than seven years of fighting between the French and Communist Vietminh
• 1965, blacks begin to riot in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California. It lasted six days with 34 people had been killed, 1,032 injured, and 3,952 arrested. It would stand as the worst riot in Los Angeles history until being eclipsed by the those in 1992, following the Rodney King verdict
• 1970, Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies became the first pitcher since Cy Young to win 100 games in each of the two major leagues
• 1972 , during the Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit depart South Vietnam
• 1991, a Lebanese terrorist group, the Revolutionary Justice Organization, released U.S. hostage Edward Tracy, held captive since October 1986
• 1992, the Mall of America opened in Bloomington, Minn.
• 1997, U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first president to use the line-item veto, a power granted by Congress the year before
• 2001, President George W. Bush said his decision to restrict but not forbid federal financing of embryonic stem cell research placed him at the crossroads between protecting and enhancing human life
• 2003, NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history
• 2005, right-wing patriots staged one of the biggest demonstrations in Israel's history at Tel Aviv. An estimated 350,000 people protested the impending withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the evacuation of four comminities in the northern West Bank
• 2007, Big Ben's bongs fell silent as workers began a month of maintenance work on the iconic London clock and its world-famous bell
• 2008, German doctors in Munich said they performed the world's first successful double-arm transplant. A 54-year-old German farmer, who had lost both of his arms six years previously, underwent a 15-hour procedure to attach two donor arms to his body
• 2013, Israel approved building 1,200 more homes for pioneers in the disputed territories and agreed to release 26 long-held "Palestinian" terrorists
• 2016, the Obama administration said it had decided marijuana would remain on the list of most dangerous drugs, rebuffing growing support across the country for broad legalization, but said it would allow more research into its medical uses.
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