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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1066 Halley's Comet appears. Visible from Earth every 75-76 years, its next appearance will be in 2061.
1800 The Library of Congress is established in Washington, DC with a $5,000 budget allocation
1833 A patent is granted for the first soda fountain
1898 Spain declares war on the United States, rejecting an ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1981 The IBM Personal Computer is introduced. It used software from a corporation called Microsoft.
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