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1/5 On April 20, 2008, Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300 auto race, becoming the first woman to win an IndyCar event. File Photo by Ed Locke/UPI | License Photo April 20 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1871, the U.S. Congress passed the Third Force Act, popularly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, authorizing President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations and use military force to suppress the Klan. Advertisement In 1902, Marie Curie and Pierre Curie isolated radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende in their laboratory...
