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| Teaching - there can be no finer calling requiring the clearest demonstration of moral and ethical behavior. Ira Shull, For the Love of Teaching |
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| Why do you teach? Let Us Know. | 
| Tell Us about your most memorable teacher. |
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Today's 5-Minute Quest
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  Use all of these letters to spell the name of a scientist, mathematician or inventor born on this date:
CALLOW MILITARY |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a 1993 work by Gao Xingjian (according to Authors Calendar):
GIFT VISUE |
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(hint: all three questions will require you to use a link found on this page)
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a novel by Cyril Lionel James (according to the African American Registry):
SOAP RAT |
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Angola: Baixa de Cassange's Day (Martyrs of the Colonial Repression Day)
(Commemorates the cotton workers martyred in attack by Portuguese military: 01/04/1961) |
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Burma: Independence Day
(Commemorates independence from Great Britain: 01/04/1948) |
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Utah: Admission Day
(Commemorates admission of Utah as the 45th State: 01/04/1896) |
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| 1785 | Jacob Grimm (German Children's Author, One of the Brothers Grimm) |
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| 1916 | Maggie Duff (Indiana-born Children's Author) |
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| 1933 | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Indiana-born Children's Author) |
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| 1935 | Fernando Krahn (Chilean Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1936 | Robert Burleigh (Illinois-born Children's Author) |
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| 1941 | Etienne Delessert (Swiss Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1789 | Benjamin Lundy (New Jersey-born Journalist, Abolitionist) |
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| 1883 | Max Eastman (New York-born Poet) |
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| 1901 | C(yril) L(ionel) R(obert) James (Trinidad Writer , Political Activist) |
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| 1940 | Gao Xingjian (Chinese Playwright, 2000 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1784 | Francois Rude |
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| 1861 | Ida Weisselberg Hadra (Texas-born Landscape Artist) |
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| 1878 | Augustus John (English Painter) |
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| 1881 | Wilhelm Lehmbruck (German Sculptor) |
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| 1710 | Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (Italian Composer) |
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| 1937 | Grace Bumbry (Missouri-born African-American Operatic Soprano) |
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| 1642 | Isaac Newton (English Scientist, Mathematician: Newton's Laws of Motion, Gravity, Calculus) |
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| 1746 | Benjamin Rush (Pennsylvania-born Medical Pioneer, Signer of the Declaration of Independence) |
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| 1797 | Wilhelm Beer (German Astronomer) |
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| 1809 | Louis Braille (French Inventor of the Braille Reading System for the Blind) |
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| 1813 | Isaac Pitman (English Inventor of Shorthand) |
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| 1908 | William Claytor (Virginia-born African-American Mathematician) |
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| 1940 | Brian D. Josephson (Welsh-born 1973 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1945 | Richard R. Schrock (Indiana-born 2005 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) |
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| 1895 | Leroy Randle Grumman (New York-born Founder of Grumman Aviation) |
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| 1798 | William Crosby Dawson (Georgia-born Member of the U.S. Congress) |
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| 1872 | Selena Sloan Butler (Georgia-born African-American Educator) |
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| 1887 | Edwin Witte (Wisconsin-born Statesman; "Father of Social Security") |
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| 1896 | Everett Dirksen (Illinois-born Member of the U.S. Senate) |
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| 1913 | Chief Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II (Head of State for Western Samoa) |
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| 1920 | William E. Colby (Minnesota-born Director of the CIA under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford) |
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| 1905 | Sterling Holloway (Georgia-born Actor: Voice of Winnie the Pooh) |
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| 1914 | Jane Wyman (Missouri-born Actress: First Wife of President Ronald Reagan) |
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| 1937 | Dyan Cannon (Washington-born Actress) |
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| 1957 | Patty Loveless (Kentucky-born Actress) |
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| 1960 | Michael Stipe (Georgia-born Actor) |
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| 1963 | Dave Foley (Canadian Actor) |
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| 1965 | Julia Ormond (English Actress) |
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| 1884 | Harry Haskell Lew (Massachusetts-born African-American: First African American to Play Professional Basketball) |
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| 1930 | Don Shula (Ohio-born Football Coach: Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1935 | Floyd Patterson (North Carolina-born African-American Member of the Boxing Hall of Fame) |
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| 1821 | Elizabeth Ann Seton (New York-born Religious Leader: First Native-born American Saint) |
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| 1843 | Stevens T. Mason (Virginia-born First Governor of Michigan) |
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| 1863 | Roger Hanson (Kentucky-born Confederate General Who Died from Combat Wounds) |
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| 1877 | Cornelius Vanderbilt (New York-born Business Leader: Railroads and Shipping) |
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| 1929 | Bose Ikard (Texas-born African-American Frontiersman, Trail Blazer) |
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| 1958 | Archie A. Alexander (Iowa-born African-American Architect, Engineer, Statesman) |
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| 1960 | Albert Camus (French-born 1957 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1961 | Erwin Schrödinger (Austrian-born 1933 Nobel Laureate in Physics) |
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| 1965 | T.S. Eliot (Missouri-born Poet; 1948 Nobel Laureate in Literature) |
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| 1967 | Donald Campbell (English Powerboat Racer) |
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| 1990 | Harold Edgerton (Nebraska-born Engineer Who Developed the Strobe Light and Multiflash Photography) |
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| 1992 | Elithe Kirkland (Texas-born Author) |
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| 2001 | Les Brown (American Bandleader) |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a worm Snowey morning, the Themtr. at 28° abov 0, Cloudy, Sent out 3 men to hunt down the river, Several Indians Came to day the little Crow, who has proved friendly Came we gave him a handkerchf & 2 files, in the evening the weather became cold and windey, wind from the N W. I am verry unwell the after part of the Daye Ordway: Cloudy, warm morning. Several men went down the River a hunting. the afternoon blustry. Some of the hunters returned had killed one buffalow calf & one woolf. Whitehouse: This morning Clear, and the weather was moderate, to what it had been some days past, Our officers sent out the Hunters, they all returned but 3 who remained out all night, The hunters that returned, had killed one Small Buffalo, which they brought to the Fort.— In the Evening, the weather grew very cold and the Wind blew hard from the N. West all night— |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: Comowooll and the Clatsops who visited us yesterday left us in the evening. These people the Chinnooks and others residing in this neighbourhood and speaking the same language have been very friendly to us; they appear to be a mild inoffensive people but will pilfer if they have an opportuny to do so where they conceive themselves not liable to detection. they are great higlers in trade and if they conceive you anxious to purchase will be a whole day bargaining for a handfull of roots; this I should have thought proceeded from their want of knowledge of the comparitive value of articles of merchandize and the fear of being cheated, did I not find that they invariably refuse the price first offered them and afterwards very frequently accept a smaller quantity of the same article; in order to satisfy myself on this subject I once offered a Chinnook my watch two knives and a considerable quantity of beads for a small inferior sea Otter's skin which I did not much want, he immediately conceived it of great value, and refused to barter except I would double the quantity of beads; the next day with a great deal of importunity on his part I received the skin in exchange for a few strans of the same beads he had refused the day before. I therefore believe this trait in their character proceeds from an avaricious all grasping disposition. in this rispect they differ from all Indians I ever became acquainted with, for their dispositions invariably lead them to give whatever they are possessed off no matter how usefull or valuable, for a bauble which pleases their fancy, without consulting it's usefullness or value. nothing interesting occurred today, or more so, than our wappetoe being all exhausted
Gass:
The weather is still cloudy and wet.
The morning was wet; but we proceeded on, and passed the head of a creek which we supposed was the last in our rout to the salt works. Immediately after passing the creek, the man with me killed an elk; when we halted and took breakfast off it, and then went on.
We got into low ground, passed through a marsh about ½ a mile in breadth, where the water was knee-deep; then got into a beautiful prairie, about 5 miles wide,
[The coastal plain in Clatsop County, north of Gearhart, in the vicinity of Sunset Beach.]
and which runs along the sea shore about 30 miles from Point Adams on the south side of Hayley's Bay, in nearly a southwest course and ends at a high point of a mountain, called Clarke's View on the sea shore. Through this plain or prairie runs another creek, or small river which we could not pass without some craft: so we encamped on the creek and supped on the elk's tongue, which we had brought with us.
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| 1808 | Harman Blennerhassett Released from Prison, Exonerated of Role in Aaron Burr Conspiracy |
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| 1836 | Arkansas Constitutional Convention Meets in Little Rock |
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| 1839 | Abraham Lincoln Votes with the Majority of the Illinois House to Incorporate City of Danville |
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| 1840 | Upon His Return to Hungary, Franz Liszt Is Presented the "Sword of Honor" at the Hungarian National Theatre |
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| 1847 | Airy's Transit Circle Telescope Is First Used in Greenwich, England |
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| 1849 | The Alta California Newspaper Begins Publication in San Francisco |
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| 1851 | Samuel Colt Wins Contract to Provide U.S. Government 1,000 Revolvers |
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| 1854 | Minnesota's Fifth Territorial Legislature Is the First to Meet in an Official Capitol Building |
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| 1855 | Abraham Lincoln Presents a History of Slavery to the Colonization Society |
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| 1861 | President-elect Lincoln Meets with Salmon P. Chase in Springfield, Illinois |
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| Alabama and Florida Governors Order the Seizure of Federal Military Installations in their States |
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| 1863 | Confederate General Hanson Dies From Wounds Sustained at Stones River |
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| 1863 | President Lincoln Has Meeting About Grant's Order to Expel Jews from Army of Tennessee |
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| 1865 | New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Opens Its First Permanent Headquarters |
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| 1868 | In Delaware, the Middletown Transcript Newspaper Begins Operation |
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| 1896 | State of Utah Is Admitted to the Union |
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| 1897 | Robert B. Smith Begins a 4-Year Term as Governor of Montana |
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| 1904 | In Gonzales v. Williams, U.S. Supreme Court Decides Puerto Ricans May Enter the U.S. Freely |
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| 1907 | Seattle, Washington's Children's Orthopedic Hospital Is Founded |
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| 1912 | Earth and Moon Come Within 221,441 Miles Center to Center |
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| 1919 | William Faulkner Is Discharged from the Canadian Division of the British Royal Air Force |
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| 1920 | The Paris Opera Goes on Strike |
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| 1921 | Mack Truck Trademark Is Registered |
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| 1923 | In Wisconsin, Milton College President A.E. Whitford Bans Dancing by Students |
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| 1925 | John E. Ericson Succeeds Joseph W. Dixon as Governor of Montana |
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| 1935 | Bob Hope Debuts on Network Radio |
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| 1936 | Billboard Publishes First Pop-music Chart Based on National Sales Figures |
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| 1937 | Roy E. Ayers Succeeds William E. Holt as Governor of Montana |
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| 1945 | Ann Curtis First Woman to Win Sullivan Award As Top U.S. Amateur Athlete |
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| Anthony J. Dimond Becomes the U.S. District Judge at Anchorage, Alaska |
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| 1946 | Author John A. Williams Is Discharged from the U.S. Navy |
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| 1947 | Ross Lockridge's Raintree County Is Finally Published after Extensive Rewrites |
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| Republican Vera Davis of Dover Is the First Woman Elected to the Delaware State Senate |
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| 1948 | Burma Gains Independence from Great Britain |
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| 1951 | North Korean and Communist Chinese Forces Capture the City of Seoul |
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| 1953 | J. Hugo Aronson Succeeds John W. Bonner as Governor of Montana |
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| 1957 | Brooklyn Dodgers First Sports Team to Own Its Own Airplane |
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| 1958 | Sputnik I Disintegrates in Fall to Earth After 92 Days in Space |
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| Edmund Hillary First Explorer to Reach South Pole Since Captain Scott in 1912 |
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| American Rocket Society and Research Panel Issue Proposal for a National Space Agency |
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| 1961 | Donald G. Nutter Succeeds J. Hugo Aronson as Governor of Montana |
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| 1962 | First Automated Passenger Subway Train Runs in New York City |
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| 1965 | President Johnson Outlines "Great Society" in State of the Union Address |
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| CBS Buys Guitar Company |
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| 1967 | Donald Campbell Dies As His Speedboat Bluebird Flips At 300 mph |
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| 1970 | 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 10,000 in China |
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| 1971 | Melvin Evans Inaugurated As the First Elected Governor of the Virgin Islands |
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| 1974 | President Nixon Refuses to Provide Subpoenaed Tapes/Recordings to Senate Committee |
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| 1980 | President Carter Announces Sanctions Following Soviet Union's Invasion of Afghanistan |
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| 1987 | Spanish Guitarist Andrıs Segovia Arrives in U.S. for His Final American Tour |
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| 1990 | Former Panamanian Dictator, Manuel Noriega, Arraigned in Miami |
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| 1993 | Marc Racicot Succeeds Stan Stephens as Governor of Montana |
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| 1995 | U.S. Representative from Georgia, Newt Gingrich, Is Elected as the First Republican Speaker of the House in 40 Years |
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| 1998 | Daniel Arap Moi is Elected President of Kenya |
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| 1999 | Europe's Unified Currency, the Euro, Debuts on World Markets |
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| Former Pro Wrestler, Jesse Ventura, Sworn in As Governor of Minnesota |
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| U.S. Mint Releases Delaware Quarters, First Dedicated to Individual States |
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| In DeKalb County, Georgia, Hong Kong-American, Al Wong Is Sworn In as the First Asian-American Judge in the Southeast U.S. |
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| 2002 | Afghanistan Casualty Is First U.S. Soldier Killed in War on Terrorism |
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| First British Women Reach the South Pole |
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| 2003 | African-American Head Coaches Compete for First Time in NFL Playoffs |
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| 2007 | California's Nancy Pelosi Begins Term as the First Female Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives |
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| Massachusetts' Deval Patrick Is the Second African-American Sworn In as an Elected State Governor |
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