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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1787 In Philadelphia, delegates to the Constitutional Convention begin debating the first complete draft of the proposed Constitution of the United States
1945 Paul Tibbets, the commander of Enola Gay, drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
1962 Jamaica becomes independent, after 300 years of British rule
1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, outlawing the literacy test for voting eligibility in the South
1972 Atlanta Braves’ right fielder Hank Aaron hits his 660th and 661st home runs, setting the Major League record for most home runs by a player for a single franchise
1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web, which debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet
2012 New Zealand’s Mount Tongariro erupts for the first time since 1897
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