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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1871 Mormon leader Brigham Young, 70, is arrested for polygamy. He is later convicted, but the US Supreme Court overturns the conviction.
1919 President Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed. Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall was urged to assume the presidency but he refused.
1950 The comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schultz, makes its first appearance in newspapers
1964 Scientists announce findings that smoking can cause cancer
1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American Supreme Court justice
1980 Congressional Representative Mike Myers is expelled from the US House for taking a bribe in the Abscam scandal, the first member to be expelled since 1861
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