Presidents Day [Third Monday in February]
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NATIONAL Love Your Pet Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1792 The US Postal Service is created
1809 The US Supreme Court rules that the power of the federal government is greater than any individual state in the Union
1839 Congress prohibits dueling in the District of Columbia
1959 The FCC applies the equal time rule to TV newscasts of political candidates
1962 Mercury astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth
1971 Young people protest having to cut their long hair in Athens Greece
2003 A fire in The Station nightclub in Warwick, RI, killed 100 and injured over 150
2007 The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rules 2-1 to uphold an act of the 109th Congress removing the right of Guantánamo Bay detainees to challenge their detention in lower federal courts
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