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NATIONAL Moon Day
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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1881 Sioux chief Sitting Bull surrenders to the US Army
1917 The US draft lottery in World War I went into operation
1948 US reinstitutes the draft for the Cold War
1969 Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon
1976 The Viking spacecraft lands on Mars and begins taking soil samples
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