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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1656 The first Quakers, Mary Fisher and Ann Austin, arrived in Boston and were promptly arrested
1838 Charles Darwin presents a paper on his theory of evolution to the Linnean Society in London
1862 US taxes incomes of $600 or more to help finance the Civil War
1863 The Battle of Gettysburg, which marked the turning point in the Civil War, began
1867 Canada, by the terms of the British North America Act, becomes an independent dominion
1941 Commercial black and white television broadcasting began in the US
1943 “Pay-as-you-go” income tax withholding began
1963 The US postmaster introduces the ZIP code
1968 The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
1969 Prince Charles is invested as the Prince of Wales
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