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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1800 Congress meets in Washington, DC, for the first time
1869 The Suez Canal is formally opened
1913 The first ship sails through the Panama Canal
1918 US influenza deaths far exceed World War I casualties
1969 Soviet and US negotiators meet in Helsinki to begin the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
1973 President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Florida, that “people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”
1988 Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister, the first woman to lead a modern Muslim state
2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as governor of California
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