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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1517 Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the door of the church at Wittenberg in Germany, the start of the Protestant Reformation
1803 Congress ratified the purchase of the entire Louisiana area, adding territory to the United States for 13 subsequent states
1846 A heavy snowfall trapped the Donner Party in the Sierra Nevada mountains
1864 Nevada becomes the 36th state
1913 Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across the United States
1941 After 14 years of work, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial is completed
1956 Rear Admiral GJ Dufek became the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole
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