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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1861 North Carolina becomes the 11th and last state to secede from the Union
1862 President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act, providing 250 million acres of free land to settlers in the West. The Act allows adults over the age of 21, male or female, to claim 160 acres of land from the public domain.
1874 Levi Strauss begins marketing blue jeans with copper rivets
1944 US Communist Party dissolved
1990 The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photographs
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