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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1642 New Zealand was discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
1862 Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia
1972 Astronaut Gene Cernan climbs into his lunar lander on the moon and prepares to lift off. He is the last man to set foot on the moon.
2003 Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured while hiding in a hole in the ground
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