On this day in history
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1857: Gustave Flaubert goes on trial for public immorality regarding his novel, Madame Bovary.
1868: The U.S. Congress enacts legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the federal government.
1876: General George A. Custer and over 260 men of the Seventh Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Bighorn in Montana.
1903: Marie Curie announces her discovery of radium.
1941: Finland declares war on the Soviet Union.
1946: Ho Chi Minh travels to France for talks on Vietnamese independence.
1950: North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
1959: The Cuban government seizes 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law.
1962: The U.S. Supreme Court bans official prayers in public schools.
1973: White House Counsel John Dean admits President Richard Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
1986: Congress approves $100 million in aid to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua.
Source: HistoryNet.com
