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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1189 Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned king of England at Westminster Abbey
1783 The Treaty of Paris is signed by Great Britain and the new United States, formally bringing the American Revolution to an end
1939 Great Britain and France declared war on Germany during World War II
1974 Frank Robinson was named the first African-American manager in major league baseball
1976 The unmanned US spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars and took the first pictures of the planet's surface
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