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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1781 Articles of Confederation go into effect, establishing a perpetual union of "The United States of America"
1939 Hitler calls for extermination of Jews
1968 North Vietnamese forces launched attacks against the South Vietnamese - The Tet Offensive
1976 George HW Bush becomes director of the CIA
2008 United States District Court Judge Stanwood Duval dismisses a class action suit against the US Army Corps of Engineers over flooding from a levee breach in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina
2014 US Attorney General Eric Holder announces that federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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