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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1931 Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison
1933 Albert Einstein, the Nobel-prize-winning physicist, flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1940
1978 Congress restores Jefferson Davis' citizenship
1979 Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1989 An earthquake registering 7.1 on the Richter Scale hit Northern California, killing 67 people
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