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On this day in . . .

• 1792, the Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington

• 1809, the Supreme Court, in United States v. Peters, ruled the power of the federal government is greater than that of any individual state

• 1839, Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia

• 1872, in New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens

• 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an immigration act which excluded "idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics, insane persons" from being admitted to the United States

• 1931, California gets the go-ahead by the U.S. Congress to build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

• 1933, the Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would end Prohibition in the United States

• 1938, Anthony Eden resigned as British foreign secretary following Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's decision to negotiate with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

• 1943, American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies

• 1944, during World War II: "Big Week" ended with American bomber raids on Nazi, ym"sh, aircraft manufacturing centers

• 1947, State of Prussia ceases to exist

• 1959, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 600 for the first time, at 602.21

• 1962, Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the earth

• 1971, the National Emergency Warning Center in Colorado erroneously ordered U.S. radio and TV stations off the air; some stations heeded the alert, which was not lifted for about 40 minutes

• 1987, Soviet authorities released Jewish activist Josef Begun

• 2007, in a victory for President Bush, a divided federal appeals court ruled that Guantanamo Bay detainees could not use the U.S. court system to challenge their indefinite imprisonmen

• 2008, a U.S. Navy cruiser blasted a disabled spy satellite with a pinpoint missile strike that achieved the main mission of exploding a tank of toxic fuel 130 miles above the Pacific Ocean. ALSO: Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew returned to Earth, after delivering a new European lab to the international space station

• 2011, anti-government protesters in Libya battled back against gunfire from the forces of Moammar Gadhafi as his son warned the country of a possible civil war. Some reports placed the weeklong protester death toll at 200

• 2014, President Barack Obama, in Mexico for a North American summit, urged Ukraine to avoid violence against peaceful protesters or face consequences; shortly after Obama's remarks, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's office said he and opposition leaders had agreed on a truce

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• Inmates break into car --- to help parents rescue toddler

• Microsoft says it has found another Russian operation targeting prominent think tanks

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At the High Court by Robert Barnes: Justice Thomas calls for re-examining libel as Supreme Court rejects Cosby case

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