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On Sept. 16, 1893, the largest land run in U.S. history occurred as over 100,000 white settlers rushed to claim over 6 million acres of land in what is now northern Oklahoma.
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In 1810, Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla called on his parishioners to join him in a rebellion against Spanish rule, marking the beginning of the Mexican War of Independence.
