Inventor Benjamin J. Lane patented the first self-contained gas mask.
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Inventor Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine in England.
The Salvation Army was founded in London by Methodist preacher William Booth and his wife, Catherine Booth.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by US President Lyndon B. Johnson.
The International Astronomical Union named Pluto's fourth and fifth moons Kerberos and Styx.
During a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina, the National Weather Service reported an alligator falling from the sky.