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On June 2, 1840, novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was born in Upper Bochampton, Dorset, England.
In 1851 Maine became the first state to prohibit the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages.
In 1864 the Chicago & North Western Railway Co. was formed by the merger of the Galena & Chicago Union and the Chicago & North Western companies.
In 1924 Congress granted citizenship to all American Indians.
In 1979 Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland, becoming the first pontiff to visit a communist country.
