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This year in history
In the year 1867

	February 17th	The first ship navigated the Suez Canal.
	March 11th	The first ever performance of Verdi's opera, Don Carlos, took place in Paris.
	March 30th	The territory of Alaska was purchased by the United States from Russia, for 7.2 million dollars. The man mostly responsible for the purchase was the Secretary of State at the time, William Seward. He was greatly criticized for this move at the time, as it was considered a huge purchase of a useless piece of land.
	April 1st	Singapore becomes British colony. It became a sovereign nation almost 100 hundred years later.
	April 9th	The treaty by which Alaska was purchased by the United States from Russia is ratified in the United States Senate.
	June 8th	American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, was born in Wisconsin. He is widely acknowledged as the most influential American architect in history.
	December 23th	American, Madame C. J. Walker, was born in Louisiana. She was the first person from her family to be born free. She founded a company that created hair tonic which by 1917 was the largest business in the United States owned by an African American. According to the 'Guinness Book of Records' she was the first female American self-made millionaire.

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