1811: Congress Authorizes Military Takeover of Spanish East Florida
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On January 15 th , 1811, the Congress authorized the Madison administration to use
military force to change the Spanish colonial regime in East Florida and annex the region to the
United States territories.
Source: Kushi and Toft (2022), "Introducing the Military Intervention Project: A New Dataset on US Military Interventions, 1776–2019". Journal of Conflict Resolution
1948: Italian Communists Banned from US
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"Those who do not believe in the ideology of the United States, shall not be allowed to stay in the United States", US Attorney General Tom Clark announces on Jan 15, 1948 (specifically referring to Italian communists)
Source: Blum (1995), Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. Bloomsbury, p. 27