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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1752 The Liberty Bell arrived in Philadelphia
1882 The first Labor Day is observed in New York City by the Carpenters and Joiners Union
1894 By an act of Congress, Labor Day is declared a national holiday
1904 Helen Keller graduates with honors from Radcliffe College
1905 Alberta and Saskatchewan become Canadian provinces
1923 An earthquake levels the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, killing 300,000
1939 Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II in Europe
1942 A federal judge in Sacramento, California, upholds the government’s detention of Japanese-Americans and Japanese nationals as a war measure
1985 The wreck of the Titanic is found by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel in a joint US and French expedition
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