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| 0041 | Caligula, Emperor of Rome, assassinated.
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| 1881 | The U.S. Supreme Court, in Springer v. United States, upholds the federal income tax of 1862.
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| 1904 | The first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell. Sadly, they are not "Politically Correct" enough for these advanced times.
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| 1916 | The U.S. Supreme Court, in Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., rules that the income tax law is constitutional.
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| 1975 | Terrorist attack: A bomb set off in historical Fraunces Tavern, in New York City, killed 4 and injured more than 50 persons. The Puerto Rican nationalist group, FALN, claimed responsibility and police tied 13 other bombings to it.
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| 1994 | The U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that groups such as Operation Rescue which try to impede access to abortion clinics are subject to prosecution under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act
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| 1995 | The trial opens for the U.S. former football star, O. J. Simpson, for the murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman (on June 12, 1994). After a long and tedious trial, he is acquitted.
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| 2006 | Today's Example of a Most Interesting Government Purchase. From the Department of Homeland Security: The Halliburton subsidiary KBR (formerly Brown and Root) announced this date that it had been awarded a $385 million contingency contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention camps in the U.S.
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