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In area, Nunavut is larger than Mexico. In population, this vast land compares to a small town, with less than 20,000 citizens. It has only 13 mi (20 km) of highway. Snowmobile and airplane are far be
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'''April 1''' in history:
* Every year: April Fool's Day, on which people play tricks on one another, is celebrated in much of the Western world; its origin is uncertain, but one explanation is that it marked the end of the week celebrating the New Year, which began on [[March 25]] until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar.
* 1999: one-fifth of [[Canada]]'s land mass became the Inuit territory of Nunavut (meaning "our land").
* 1945: The first of 172,000 troops of the [[U.S.]] Tenth Army began moving ashore on Okinawa in the largest amphibious operation in the Pacific theater during World War II.
* 1918: Great Britain formed the Royal Air Force (RAF), the world's first independent air service.
* 1899: Under the terms of the Dawes Act of 1887, the process of allotting Native American tribal lands in [[Oklahoma]] to individuals began; the effect was to open the Indian Territory to white settlement.
* 1840: The first political party in U.S. history based exclusively on an antislavery platform, the Liberty party, was founded in Albany, [[New York]]
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