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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1492 Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spain to find a western route to the Indies
1861 Virginia becomes the eighth state to secede from the Union
1937 Daffy Duck made his debut in Porky's Duck Hunt
1970 Apollo 13, originally scheduled to land on the moon, lands back safely on Earth after an accident
1986 IBM produced its first megabit-chip
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