The Sistine Chapel's ceiling is unveiled, the National Weather Service makes its first forecast, the U.S. explodes its first hydrogen bomb, and Honda opens its first U.S. factory, all on this day.
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1942: Larry Flynt, who would go on to become the publisher of the pornographic magazine Hustler and who fight several prominent legal battles involving the First Amendment, is born in Lakeville, Magoffin County, Kentucky.