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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1825 Erie Canal opened, linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean
1854 The Charge of the Light Brigade took place at Balaklava during the Crimean War
1943 Japanese open the Burma railroad ("The Bridge on the River Kwai")
1958 The last US troops leave Beirut
1960 Martin Luther King, Jr is sentenced to four months in jail for a sit-in
1962 In South Africa, civil rights activist Nelson Mandela is sentenced to 5 years in prison
1962 John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
1972 The first female FBI agents were hired
1983 The United States invaded the Caribbean nation of Grenada
1996 Federal Judge Richard Matsch granted Oklahoma City bombing defendants Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols separate trials
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