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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1701 Yale University is founded as The Collegiate School of Killingworth, Connecticut by Congregationalists who consider Harvard too liberal
1793 Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine during the French Revolution
1813 The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812
1834 "Second" Great Fire of London burns much of the city, including Parliament
1940 First black American is promoted to general: Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr.
1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis began
1995 The Million Man March takes place in Washington, DC
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