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1789
Congress passed the First Judiciary Act which provided for a U.S. attorney general and the Supreme Court.
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1957
The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field.
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1960
The Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched.
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1969
The trial of the "Chicago Eight," radical antiwar and counterculture activists accused of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic convention, began.
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1991
Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died at age 87.
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1996
The United States and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
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