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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: The Pig War (1859)
Description: It’s June 19th. This day in 1859, a skirmish on the San Juan Islands over a pig that intruded on a farmer’s potato crops leads to an argument, which leads to a diplomatic crisis, which almost leads to a war between the US and Canada.
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