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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1909 Orville Wright sets a world record for staying aloft in an airplane–one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds
1920 A radio compass was used for the first time for aircraft navigation
1940 Bugs Bunny made his official debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon “A Wild Hare”
1953 The United States, the People’s Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea agree to an armistice, bringing the Korean War to an end
1996 The Summer Olympics in Atlanta Georgia is disrupted by the explosion of a pipe bomb in Centennial Olympic Park
2003 Lance Armstrong won his fifth straight Tour de France
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