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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1788 Almost the entire city of New Orleans, Louisiana, 856 buildings, is destroyed by fire
1947 President Truman signed Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to swear allegiance to the United States
1851 Yosemite Valley was discovered
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1963 Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, California, closes
1980 President Jimmy Carter announces to the US Olympic Team that they will not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
2001 Space shuttle Discovery glided to a predawn touchdown, bringing home the first residents of the international space station
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