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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1775 American revolutionaries Paul Revere and William Dawes ride though the towns of Massachusetts warning that “the British are coming”
1906 A massive earthquake hits San Francisco, measuring 8.25 on the Richter scale
1923 Yankee Stadium opens with Babe Ruth hitting a three-run homer as the Yankees beat the Red Sox 4-1
1942 First issue of the newspaper for US armed forces, Stars and Stripes, was published
1946 The League of Nations dissolves
1978 The US Senate approves the transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama on December 31, 1999
1983 The US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, is almost completely destroyed by a car-bomb explosion that kills 63 people, including the suicide bomber and 17 Americans
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