Inventor Benjamin J. Lane patented the first self-contained gas mask.
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During a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina, the National Weather Service reported an alligator falling from the sky.
The first Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, was arrested for high treason in England.
The Salvation Army was founded in London by Methodist preacher William Booth and his wife, Catherine Booth.
North and South Vietnam were formally reunified after more than twenty years of war.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by US President Lyndon B. Johnson.
