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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1788 Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the constitution and become a US state
1789 The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinies against Captain William Bligh
1930 The first organized night baseball game is played in Independence, Kansas
1947 Thor Heyerdahl and five others began their Pacific Ocean crossing on the raft Kon-Tiki
1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the US Army and is stripped of his boxing title
1992 The US Department of Agriculture unveiled its first “food pyramid”
2004 CBS broadcast photos on “60 Minutes” showing US abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison
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