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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1893 Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii is overthrown by a group of American sugar planters led by Sanford Dole
1977 Gary Gilmore became the first person executed in the U.S. since the death penalty was reintroduced
1985 A jury in New Jersey rules that terminally ill patients have the right to starve themselves
1998 President Clinton became the first sitting US president to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil suit
2007 President George W. Bush announces that the NSA is now required to obtain warrants for wiretapping and domestic surveillance
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