This day in history May 22. 2019
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Started by metmike - May 22, 2019, 1:05 a.m.

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1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".


2011An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.

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By carlberky - May 22, 2019, 6:52 a.m.
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1856Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding  Southerners and slavery.

Ah, the good old days !