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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1786 Protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts in a military standoff that begins Shays’ Rebellion
1789 Thomas Jefferson was appointed America’s first Secretary of State; John Jay the first chief justice of the United States; Samuel Osgood the first Postmaster-General; and Edmund Jennings Randolph the first Attorney General
1829 Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organization, is formed
1913 The first boat is raised in the locks of the Panama Canal
1914 The Federal Trade Commission is established to foster competition by preventing monopolies in business
1941 The US Army establishes the Military Police Corps
1955 The New York Stock Exchange suffers a $44 million loss
1960 Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy participate in the first nationally televised debate between presidential candidates
1961 Nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan makes his New York singing debut at Gerde’s Folk City
1969 The Beatles last album, Abbey Road, is released
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