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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1685 Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes and outlaws Protestantism
1767 Two surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, completed mapping the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, called the Mason-Dixon line
1867 The rules for American football are formulated at a meeting in New York among delegates from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton and Yale universities
1954 Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio
2011 Spaceport America officially opens in New Mexico as the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport
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