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On This Day: Alexander Graham Bell gets 1st telephone patent
Finland signed a peace treaty with Germany shortly after declaring independence from Russia. In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered Nazi troops into the Rhineland, violating the Treaty of Versailles.