Monday, June 21, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

JUNE 21
1834:Cyrus McCormick receives a patent for his mechanical reaper, forever revolutionizing farming.

1982: John Hinckley Jr. is found innocent by reason of insanity in the shooting of President Ronald Reagan and three others. Hinckley’s attorneys point to the would-be assassin’s pathological obsession with the film Taxi Driver and its lead actress, Jodie Foster.

1985: An international team of forensic pathologists identifies the skeletal remains of notorious Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele in Brazil.

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