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NATIONAL Rat Catcher's Day
NATIONAL Day of the Cowboy [fourth Saturday in July]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1376 The Pied Piper abducts the children of Hamlin
1789 Thomas Jefferson becomes the first head of the US Department of Foreign Affairs
1796 Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by General Moses Cleveland
1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt's "court packing" scheme was rejected by the US Senate
1942 US initiates gasoline rationing
1975 Congress voted to restore Confederate general Robert E. Lee's US citizenship
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