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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
70 The Temple of Jerusalem burns after a nine-month Roman siege
1758 The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey
1786 Shays' rebellion, an insurrection of Massachusetts farmers against the state government, began
1842 The Treaty of Nanking was signed, ending the Opium Wars and ceding the island of Hong Kong to Britain
1957 Strom Thurmond ended the longest filibuster in US Senate history. He spoke for more than 24 hours against a civil rights bill. The bill passed.
1958 The Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado
1966 The Beatles give their last public concert at Candlestick Park, San Francisco
2005 Hurricane Katrina slammed into the US Gulf Coast, destroying beachfront towns in Mississippi and Louisiana, displacing a million people, and killing more than 1,000
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