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This Day in Minnesota History

January 17, 1907

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Warren E. Burger is born in St. Paul. As chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1969 to 1986, his major opinions would include the decision requiring President Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes and his dissent in the Bivens case, attacking the exclusion of illegally seized evidence.

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