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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
1788 South Carolina becomes the eighth US state
1830 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began the first passenger service in the United States
1873 The North West Mounted Police force, later known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, was formed in Canada
1911 The New York Public Library opens its main building, on Fifth Avenue
1949 The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) is formally established as a separate nation
1977 The US Supreme Court refused to hear appeals of former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell in connection with their Watergate convictions
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