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This Day in History
1775: Britain declares Massachusetts in a state of rebellion.

1799: The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the West Indies.

1861: Tennessee votes against secession.

1904: Japanese troops land near Seoul, Korea, after disabling two Russian cruisers.

1916: Conscription begins in Great Britain as the Military Service Act becomes effective.

1919: The Army chaplain school is organized at Fort Monroe, Virginia.

1922: The U.S. Congress establishes the World War Foreign Debt Commission.

1942: Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in the U.S.

1943: The Red Army takes back Kursk 15 months after it fell to the Germans.

1943: Organized Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal ends.