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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1707 The Act of Union joined England and Scotland to form Great Britain
1805 The state of Virginia passes a law requiring all freed slaves to leave the state, or risk either imprisonment or deportation
1867 Reconstruction in the South begins with black voter registration
1877 President Rutherford B. Hayes withdraws all Federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction
1931 The Empire State Building opens in New York. At 102 stories, it was the tallest building in the world at that time.
1941 The film Citizen Kane – directed by and starring Orson Welles – opens in New York
1948 People's Republic of [North] Korea established
1950 Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth
1961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
1971 Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of US passenger rail service
2011 Osama Bin Laden is killed in Abbottabad Pakistan by US Navy SEALS in Operation Neptune Spear [May 1 in the US, May 2 in Pakistan]
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