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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1453 France defeats England at Castillon, France, ending the Hundred Years’ War
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders to the British at Rochefort, France
1821 Spain ceded Florida to the United States
1917 The British royal family changed its name from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor amid anti-German sentiment during World War I
1955 Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California
1960 American pilot Francis Gary Powers pleads guilty to spying charges in a Moscow court
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