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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1338 An archer named Robin Hood enlists in the service of King Edward III at the garrison on the Isle of Wight
1620 Leaders of the Mayflower expedition frame the “Mayflower Compact,” designed to bolster unity among the settlers
1789 North Carolina becomes the 12th state in the Union
1794 Honolulu Harbor was discovered
1904 Motorized omnibuses replace horse-drawn cars in Paris
1973 The 18-1/2 min gap in the Richard Nixon Watergate tapes was revealed
2014 The United States House of Representatives files a lawsuit against President Barack Obama for executive actions undertaken in relation to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act
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