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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1788 Virginia became the 10th state in the Union
1868 Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were re-admitted to the Union
1868 The US Congress enacts legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the federal government
1876 General George A. Custer and over 260 men of the Seventh Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Bighorn in Montana
1876 Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated his telephone at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
1903 Marie Curie announces her discovery of radium
1950 Communist North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War
1951 The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC
1962 The US Supreme Court bans official prayers in public schools
1981 The US Supreme Court holds male-only draft registration constitutional
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