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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1767 Daniel Boone sights present-day Kentucky
1775 The United Colonies change their name to the United States
1776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing a Declaration of Independence
1892 Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision.
1905 Norway declares independence from Sweden, which acquiesces
1914 The first vessel passes through the Panama Canal
1929 Vatican City became a sovereign state
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