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Taft sworn in as Chief Justice; Senate confirms him 61 to 4, same day, no hearings

Eight years out of the White House, the former president fills the seat Edward Douglass White left vacant when he died in May.

Eight years after leaving the White House, William Howard Taft got the job he had wanted all along. On July 11, 1921, he was sworn in as the 10th Chief Justice of the United States, filling the seat left vacant by Edward Douglass White's death that May. The Senate confirmed him the same day, 61 to 4, with no committee hearings and no real debate. No other American has ever held both the presidency and the chief justiceship…

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Burr fires at Weehawken; Hamilton is rowed back across the Hudson, shot through the liver

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1962

NASA picks lunar orbit rendezvous as its path to the Moon

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USS Nevada slides into the Fore River; the Navy calls her armor scheme unlike anything built before

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Fifteen years after the Continental Marines disbanded, an undeclared naval fight with France puts troops back on warships under the Act for Establishing and Organizing a Marine Corps.
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1944

Paris is free; von Choltitz signs away the city he was ordered to burn

Hours later de Gaulle stands at the Hôtel de Ville and tells Paris it liberated itself.
1920

Colby signs the paper: women's suffrage is now the law of the land

No ceremony, no witnesses, just a secretary of state's signature at his home in Washington.
1945

Four generals form a council to rule Germany; the German Army ceases to exist

Zhukov, Eisenhower, Montgomery and de Lattre de Tassigny sign in as Berlin's new governing body and outlaw the old uniform on the same day.
1945

MacArthur steps onto the tarmac at Atsugi, alone but for a corncob pipe

The newly named Supreme Commander arrives on an airfield American troops had held for only two days.
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