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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1669 Eruption of Mt. Etna kills 15,000
1888 A disastrous blizzard hits the northeastern United States. More than 400 people die, mainly from exposure.
1969 Levi-Strauss starts to sell bell-bottomed jeans
1993 Janet Reno won unanimous Senate confirmation to be the first female US Attorney General
1999 The US Rodman naval base in Panama was transferred to Panama
2004 In Madrid, Spain, a series of bombs hidden in backpacks exploded in quick succession at three stations, blowing apart four commuter trains and killing 202 people and wounding over 1,450
2011 Japan is hit by an enormous earthquake that triggers a deadly 23-foot tsunami in the country's north, about 230 miles northeast of Tokyo. Cooling systems in one of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station fail shortly after the earthquake, causing a nuclear crisis.
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