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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1861 Tennessee officially admitted to the Confederacy. Kentucky proclaims its neutrality.
1884 Alaska became a US territory
1928 The first Academy Awards are held in Hollywood
1941 The Irving Berlin musical, Annie Get Your Gun, opened on Broadway
1954 The US Supreme Court unanimously rules for school integration in Brown v. Board of Education
1991 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the US Congress.
2011 Due to massive flooding along the river, the United States Coast Guard closes 15 miles of the Mississippi River near Natchez, Mississippi
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