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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1719 Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe is published in London
1792 The guillotine is first used to execute highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier
1859 Work begins on the Suez Canal in Egypt
1901 New York became the first state to require license plates on cars
1938 A seeing eye dog is used for the first time
1945 Delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations
1954 The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories
1956 Elvis Presley‘s “Heartbreak Hotel” goes to number one on the charts
1971 The country of Bangladesh is established
1982 Israel completes Sinai withdrawal, in accordance with Camp David accords
1983 The Pioneer 10 spacecraft crossed Pluto’s orbit on its voyage through the Milky Way
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