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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1836 The first monthly installment of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens is published in London
1880 The first electric street lights ever installed by a municipality are turned on in Wabash, Indiana
1889 The Eiffel Tower in Paris officially opens on the Left Bank as part of the Exhibition of 1889
1917 The United States purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million
1918 Daylight Saving Time goes into effect throughout the United States for the first time
1940 La Guardia airport in New York officially opens to the public
1949 Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province
1992 USS Missouri (BB-63), the last active American battleship, is decommissioned
1995 Coast Guard Communication Area Master Station Atlantic sent a final message by Morse Code and then signed off, officially ending more than 100 years of telegraph communication
1995 Major League Baseball players agreed to end the sport’s longest strike in history after a judge ordered a preliminary injunction against team owners
2005 Terry Schiavo died 13 days after her feeding tube was removed
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