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Events on Monday 3 March 1873 1
1873Comstock ActUS law criminalizes mailing "obscene" materialsSigned on 3 March 1873, the federal law championed by anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock banned the mailing of contraceptives, abortion-related material, and material deemed obscene. It remained the basis for censorship and anti-birth-control prosecutions in the United States for nearly a century.