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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1850 Gold is discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon, extending the quest for gold up the Pacific coast
1861 The Crittenden Resolution, calling for the American Civil War to be fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, is passed by Congress
1946 The United States tested the first underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll
1947 The US Army, Navy, & Air Force are subordinated to the new Department of Defense
1952 Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States
1978 The first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born in Oldham, England
2010 The release of 91,731 classified documents from the Wikileaks organization was made public
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