The first acquisition, in 50 years, of new territory and inhabitants by the United States, took place with the signing of the "Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America."
The descendants of chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr., gave most of the privately owned Santa Catalina Island to a conservancy that the family had formed in 1972 to protect the island for public use [REF].