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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1608 Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Quebec
1775 George Washington takes command of the Continental Army
1863 The Battle of Gettysburg ended
1890 Idaho is admitted to the union as the 43rd state
1901 The Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy, commits its last American robbery near Wagner, Montana, taking $65,000 from a Great Northern train
1903 The first cable across the Pacific Ocean is spliced between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila
1930 Congress created the US Veterans Administration
1954 World War II food rationing ends in Great Britain, almost nine years after the war ended
1962 Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame
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