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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1691 Yorktown, Virginia, was founded
1777 France declares a state of bankruptcy
1858 US President James Buchanan and Britain’s Queen Victoria exchange messages inaugurating the first transatlantic telegraph line
1861 President Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy
1988 IBM introduces artificial intelligence software
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