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This year in history
In the year 1876

	January 31st	The United States government ordered all Native Americans to reside into reservations. Native American were not citizens of the United State until 1924.
	February 22nd	Johns Hopkins University was founded in Baltimore, Maryland.
	March 7th	American inventor, Alexander Graham Bell, was granted a patent for the telephone.
	August 1st	Colorado became the 38th US state.
	October 31st	A huge cyclone hit the Megna River Delta in the Indian city of Backergunge. The cyclone and the huge waves it produced resulted in over 200,000 deaths. Half of the people drowned from the flooding which has been reported to had reached 12 meters high. The rest died from the diseases that resulted from the flooding.

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