This material has been classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a Group 2A agent. Group 2A - The agent is probably carcinogenic to humans. [IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Humans. - Supplement 7, World Health Organisation, 1987].
The Dawes Act of 1887, sometimes referred to as the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 or the General Allotment Act, was signed into law on January 8, 1887, by US President Grover Cleveland. The act authorized the president to confiscate and redistribute tribal lands in the American West.
Lincoln signs Homestead Act. On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act, which opens government-owned land to small family farmers (âhomesteadersâ). The act gave âany personâ who was the head of a family 160 acres to try his hand at farming for five years.