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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1585 A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reaches Roanoke Island, North Carolina
1787 Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacts the Northwest Ordinance, establishing rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union, and limiting the expansion of slavery
1798 English poet William Wordsworth visits the ruins of Tintern Abbey
1832 Henry Schoolcraft discovers the source of the Mississippi River in Minnesota
1863 Opponents of the draft begin three days of rioting in New York City
1866 The Great Eastern begins a two week voyage to complete a 12-year effort to lay telegraph cable across the Atlantic between Britain and the United States
1977 A 25-hour blackout hit New York City, causing widespread rioting and looting
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