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![A poster supporting the Anti-Rent Movement, aimed to end the patroon system in Rensselaer County, New York, United States. Its headline reads "ATTENTION! ANTI-RENTERS! AWAKE! AROUSE!" [Wikipedia]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/antiRent.jpg)
On this day in 1839, tenant farmers on New York's oldest estate assembled in Albany County to adopt a declaration of independence from their landlord, initiating the longest rent strike in U.S. history, the "Anti-Rent War".
Image: A poster supporting the Anti-Rent Movement, aimed to end the patroon system in Rensselaer County, New York, United States. Its headline reads "ATTENTION! ANTI-RENTERS! AWAKE! AROUSE!" [Wikipedia]
Passed on this day in 1864, the Immigration Act legalized wage-based indentured servitude to encourage immigration to the United States, allowing immigrants to forgo a year's wages to pay for their passage into the country.
Image: An artist's depiction of immigrants arriving in New York City, undergoing health inspection in 1866
Operation PBHistory was a covert CIA operation that began on this day in 1954, following their ousting of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz, seeking to damage his reputation, disseminate propaganda, and spy on Latin American communists.