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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1789 New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights
1945 The Nazi war crime trials begin at Nuremberg
1947 Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey
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1962 President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: The Soviets agree to remove their missiles from Cuba, and the US lifts naval quarantine of the island
1967 The US census reports the population at 200 million
1974 The United States files an antitrust suit to break up AT&T
1981 Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released
2008 The Dow Jones Industrial Average sinks to its lowest level in 11 years in response to failures in the US financial system
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