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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1057 Macbeth, king of Scotland, was killed by Malcolm Canmore
1908 First Navy post offices established in Navy ships
1911 Proctor & Gamble Company introduced Crisco vegetable shortening
1914 The Panama Canal opens to traffic
1939 The Wizard of Oz premiered in Hollywood
1945 Gasoline and fuel oil rationing for World War II ends in the United States
1947 Britain grants independence to India and Pakistan
1969 Over 400,000 young people attend a weekend of rock music at Woodstock, New York
1971 US President Richard Nixon announces a 90-day freeze on wages and prices in an attempt to halt rapid inflation
2001 Astronomers announce the first solar system discovered outside our own - two planets had been found orbiting a star in the Big Dipper
2007 An earthquake of 8.0 magnitude kills over 500 and injures more than 1,000 in Peru
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