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| 1794 | French Republican troops slaughtered women, children and old men in the village of Vendée. Twelve "infernal columns" commanded by General Louis-Marie Turreau were ordered to kill everyone and everything they saw. Thousands of people – including women and children – were massacred in cold blood, and farms and villages torched. The incident to be remembered as the first genocide in modern history?
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| 1803 | U.S. Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison, for the first time, declares an act of Congress unconstitutional.
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| 1868 | President Andrew Johnson impeached by the House of Representatives.
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| 1914 | In "Weeks v. United States, 232 U.S. 383 (1914)", the US Supreme Court gives birth to the "exclusionary rule", is which evidence seized illegally by the cops is excluded.
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| 1964 | The 24th Amendment, that takes effect this day, makes poll taxes unconstitutional.
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| 1988 | The U.S. Supreme Court, in Hustler Magazine, Inc. et al. v. Jerry Falwell, rules that Hustler magazine's criticism of evangelist Jerry Falwell was within the rules protecting attacks on public figures.
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| 1991 | Operation Desert Storm begins this date and ends in 100 hours with Iraqi forces defeated. More than 100,000 Iraqi troops surrender, at least 100,000 Iraqis are killed, with almost no Allied casualties but Saddam Hussein remains in power.
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