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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1770 Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef
1919 Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to capture the Triple Crown
1934 The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ended in failure
1935 Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey
1941 Amendment to act creating Coast Guard (January 28, 1915) provided “The Coast Guard shall be a military service and constitute a branch of the land and naval forces of the United States at all times.”
1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants
1977 Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown
1991 Microsoft released MS DOS 5.0
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