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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1790 The Revenue Cutter service, the parent service of the US Navy and Coast Guard, is organized
1884 Thomas Stevens became the first person to bicycle across the United States
1914 Germany invades Belgium causing Great Britain to declare war on Germany
1916 US agrees to buy the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million
1944 Anne Frank and her family are betrayed to the Nazis
1949 Congress approved Public Law 207, establishing the Coast Guard as a branch of the US Armed Forces
1988 The US Senate votes to give each Japanese-American who was interned during WWII $20,000 compensation and an apology
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