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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1626 The Pilgrim Fathers, who settled in New Plymouth, buy out their London investors
1777 The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, the precursor to the US Constitution
1881 The American Federation of Labor is founded
1920 Forty-one nations open the first League of Nations session in Geneva
1960 The first submarine with nuclear missiles, the USS George Washington, takes to sea from Charleston, South Carolina
1969 A quarter of a million anti-Vietnam War demonstrators march in Washington, DC
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