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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
Good Luck! |
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  Use all of these letters to spell the title of a book written by Mary Rodgers:
MIST MUSH CREW |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a book written by Toni Morrison (according to the History Channel):
BUY EELS TEETH |
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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 work by Alan Paton (according to Authors' Calendar ):
SPOON |
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| Bhutan: Traditional Day of Offering |
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Morocco: Independence Manifesto Day
(Commemoration of the publication of a Moroccan independence manifesto: 01/11/1944) |
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Nepal: Prithvi Jayanti/National Unity Day
(Commemorates the birth of King Prithvi Narayan Shah the Great, the father of modern Nepal) |
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Puerto Rico: de Hostos' Birthday
(Commemorates the birth date of patriot and philosopher, Eugenio María de Hostos: 01/11/1839) |
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United States: National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
(Observed on this date annually as per a 06/22/2007 resolution of the U.S. Congress to elevate awareness of modern human slavery and trafficking ) |
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| 1870 | Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (Kentucky-born Children's Author) |
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| 1918 | Robert C. O'Brien (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| Ann Tompert (Detroit-born Children's Author) |
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| 1928 | Berniece Rabe (Missouri-born Children's Author) |
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| 1931 | Mary Rodgers (Guettel) (New York-born Children's Author; Daughter of Composer Richard Rogers) |
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| 1949 | Steven Otfinoski (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1952 | Alice Mead (New York-born Children's Author) |
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| 1842 | William James (New York-born Philosopher, Psychologist) |
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| James Smithee (Arkansas-born Journalist, Publisher) |
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| 1864 | Thomas Dixon (North Carolina White Supremacist Author of The Clansman) |
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| 1903 | Alan Paton (South African Writer, Political Activist) |
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| 1925 | William Styron (Virginia-born Author: 1968 Pulitzer Prize for The Confessions of Nat Turner) |
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| 1503 | Parmigianino (Italian Mannerist Painter and Etcher) |
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| 1814 | James Paget (English Physician Who Discovered the Parasite That Causes Trichinosis) |
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| 1887 | Aldo Leopold (Iowa-born Environmentalist) |
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| 1895 | Laurens Hammond (Illinois Inventor of the Hammond Organ) |
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| 1924 | Roger Guillemin (French-born 1977 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine) |
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| 1807 | Ezra Cornell (New York-born Pioneer in the Telegraph Industry, Philanthropist, Founder of Cornell University) |
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| 1755 | Alexander Hamilton (Jamaican-born Founder of the U.S. Banking System) |
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| 1815 | John Alexander Macdonald (Scottish-born Prime Minister of Canada: 1867-1873, 1878-1891) |
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| 1839 | Eugenio María de Hostos (Puerto Rican-born Educator, Writer, Advocate for Puerto Rican Independence and Caribbean Unity) |
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| 1885 | Alice Paul (New Jersey-born Women's Suffragist) |
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| 1907 | Pierre Mendès-France (Premier of France) |
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| 1899 | Eva Le Gallienne (English Actress) |
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| 1904 | Clarence "Pine Top" Smith (Alabama-born African-American Pianist) |
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| 1925 | Grant Tinker (Connecticut-born Television Executive) |
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| 1928 | David Wolpe (New York City-born Film and Television Producer) |
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| 1930 | Rod Taylor (Australian Actor) |
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| 1946 | Naomi Judd (Kentucky-born Country Musician) |
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| 1971 | Mary J. Blige (Georgia-born African-American Singer) |
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| 1972 | Amanda Peet (New York City-born Actress) |
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| 1896 | Paddy Driscoll (Illinois-born Member of the College Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1952 | Ben Crenshaw (Texas-born Member of the World Golf Hall of Fame) |
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| 1963 | Tracy Caulkins (Minnesota-born Member of the Swimming Hall of Fame) |
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| 1852 | David C. Barrow (Georgia-born Educator: Namesake of Barrow County, Georgia) |
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| 1843 | Francis Scott Key (Maryland-born Author of The Star Spangled Banner) |
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| 1893 | John E. Kenna (West Virginia-born Member of the U.S. Senate) |
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| 1988 | Isidor Isaac Rabi (Austrian-born 1944 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| John Williams (U.S. Senator From Delaware: 1947-1970) |
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| 1991 | Carl David Anderson (New York City-born 1936 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 2008 | Edmund Hillary (New Zealand Explorer; First Man to Climb Mount Everest) |
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| 1693 | 60,000 Die in Sicilian Earthquake |
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| 1759 | The First American Life Insurance Company Is Incorporated In Philadelphia |
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| 1769 | British King George III Ratifies in Council the Settlement of the Mason-Dixon Boundary Between Delaware and Maryland |
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| 1775 | South Carolina's Francis Salvador Is First Jew to Be Elected to Public Office in the Americas |
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| 1787 | William Herschel Discovers the First Moon of Uranus: Titania |
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| 1798 | Massachusetts State Legislature Moves into the New State House |
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| 1803 | President Jefferson Nominates James Monroe to Negotiate the Acquisition of the Louisiana Territory |
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| 1805 | President Thomas Jefferson Signs an Act Establishing the Michigan Territory |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: verry Cold, Send out 3 men to join 3 now below & hunt. Pose-cop se ha or Black Cat came to See us and Stay all night Sho sa har ro ra or Coal also Stayd all night, the inturpeter oldst wife Sick, Some of our men go to See a war medison Dance Whitehouse: This day the weather still continued Cold & the Air very thin; about Noon 2 of the hunters that went out to hunt Yesterday returned to the Fort, they brought with them, 2 Elk which they had killed, some of those hunters that were out with them had went further down the River in quest of Game.— |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: Sent a party early this morning for the Elk which was killed on the 9th. they returned with it in the evening; Drewyer and Collins also returned without having killed anything. this morning the Sergt. of the guard reported the absence of our Indian Canoe, on enquiry we found that those who came in it last evening had been negligent in securing her and the tide in the course of the night had taken her off; we sent a party down to the bay in surch of her, they returned unsuccessfull, the party also who went up the river and Creek in quest of the meat were ordered to lookout for her but were equally unsuccessfull; we ordered a party to resume their resurches for her early tomorrow;
this will be a very considerable loss to us if we do not recover her; she is so light that four men can carry her on
the Cuthlâhmâhs left us this evening on their way to the Catsops, to whom they purpose bartering their wappetoe for the blubber and oil of the whale, which the latter purchased for beads &c. from the Killamucks; in this manner there is a trade continually carryed on by the natives of the river each trading some article or other with their neighbours above and below them; and thus articles which are vended by the whites at the entrance of this river, find their way
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| 1820 | Fire Destroys 463 Buildings, Leaving 2/3 of Savannah, Georgia's Residents Homeless |
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| 1830 | John McLean (NJ) Sworn in As Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1839 | Florida's First Constitution Is Signed by Members of the Constitutional Convention in St. Joseph's |
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| 1847 | Native Californios Agree to Abide by U.S. Rule with Treaty of Cahuenga |
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| 1854 | Wasco County, Oregon Is Created |
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| 1858 | Benito Juárez Assumes Presidency of Mexico and Re-establishes Federal Law |
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| The Iowa Legislature Holds Its First Session in Des Moines |
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| 1861 | Alabama Secedes from the Union |
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| Florida's Ordinance of Secession Is Signed Establishing Florida as an "Independent Nation" |
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| 1862 | Sumpter, Texas Incorporates as the Seat of Trinity County |
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| 1863 | Union Forces Capture Arkansas Post, Stronghold on Arkansas River |
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| USS Hatteras Is Sunk by the CSS Alabama South of Galveston, Texas |
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| 1864 | Vigilantes Hang the Sheriff of Bannack, Montana for Leading Gold Robber Gang |
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| Union Ships Capture Two British Blockade Runners Near Florida's Jupiter Inlet |
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| 1865 | Robert E. Lee Recommends Using African-American Troops in Return for Emancipation |
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| Secretary of War Edwin Stanton Meets General Sherman in Savannah Regarding Freed Slaves |
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| 1879 | British Attempt to Expand Influence in South Africa with Invasion of Zululand |
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| 1880 | Former President Ulysses S. Grant Visits Florida's Silver Springs Resort |
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| 1892 | The U.S. Senate Confirms 5 Judges to Adjudicate New Mexico Land Grants Originally Issued by Spain and Mexico |
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| 1898 | A Tornado Hits Fort Smith, Arkansas |
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| 1907 | The Science Museum of Minnesota Is Incorporated as the St. Paul Institute of Science and Letters |
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| 1908 | President Theodore Roosevelt Designates Grand Canyon a National Monument |
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| 1909 | Canada and the U.S. Form the International Joint Commission to Preventing and Settle Disputes in the Boundary Waters Region |
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| 1916 | French Forces Occupy the Greek Island of Corfu |
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| 1923 | Lithuania Occupies the Country of Memel |
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| 1927 | Charlie Chaplin's Assets Are Frozen When Wife Files for Divorce |
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| 1928 | Josef Stalin Banishes Leon Trotsky from the Soviet Union |
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| 1935 | Amelia Earhart Is First Person to Fly Solo from Hawaii to the California |
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| 1937 | Violence Erupts on the 12th Day of a Sit-Down Strike at GM Plant in Flint, Michigan |
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| Nell Scott of Seldovia Is the First Woman in Alaska's Legislature |
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| 1938 | Thomas Wolfe's Story "The Company" Appears in New Masses |
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| 1942 | Japan Declares War Against the Netherlands, Invade the Dutch East Indies |
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| The First of Five German U-boats, Which Will Begin Sinking American Shipping Vessels, Appears Off the East Coast of the U.S. |
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| 1943 | U.S. & Britain Sign Treaties Relinquishing Extraterritorial Rights in China |
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| 1944 | Members of the Nationalist Istiqlal Party Issue Moroccan Independence Manifesto |
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| German POW Murdered By NAZI Enforcers in Texas Internment Camp |
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| 1945 | Truce Brings Short-lived Peace to Greek Civil War |
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| 1946 | Albania Is Declared a Republic with Enver Hoxha Dictator |
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| 1949 | Cornerstone Laid for the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. |
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| 1951 | An F2 Tornado Rips through Sunnyvale, California |
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| 1954 | The State of Georgia Prohibits Law Enforcement Officers from Joining Labor Unions |
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| 1955 | The Antibiotic Tetracycline Is Patented |
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| 1961 | First Two African-American Students Are Removed from U. of Georgia for Their Own Protection |
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| 1962 | Avalanche Engulfs Nine Peruvian Villages, Killing Four Thousand |
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| Temperatures Drop to Record Lows in Southern U.S. and Mexico |
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| 1964 | U.S. Surgeon General Issues First Government Report on the Health Hazards of Smoking |
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| Oklahoma Football Coach, Bud Wilkinson, Resigns after 17 Seasons |
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| 1965 | African-American Football Players Boycott AFL All-Star Game in New Orleans |
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| 1966 | A Constitutional Commission Is Organized to Revise Florida's 1885 State Constitution |
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| 1967 | NASA Launches Intelsat 2B Satellite to Support Pacific Telecommunications |
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| 1968 | NASA Launches GEOS 2 Satellite to Assess the Earth's Shape and Gravity Field |
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| In Wisconsin, Rock County Members of the National Farmers Organization Boycott Grain Processors to Drive Up Prices |
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| 1970 | Kansas City Chiefs Beat the Minnesota Vikings 23-7 in Super Bowl IV |
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| 1973 | President Nixon Ends Wage and Price Control Program |
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| Baseball's American League Adopts the Designated Hitter Rule |
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| 1977 | France Releases Suspected Palestinian Terrorist from 1972 Munich Olympics |
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| 1978 | Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon Wins National Book Critics Circle Award |
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| 1982 | 7.4 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes the Philippine Island of Luzon |
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| 1988 | Vice President George Bush Answers Questions About the Iran-Contra Affair |
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| 1989 | President Reagan Gives His Farewell Address to the Nation |
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| 1991 | Soviet Troops Storm Key Vilnius Locations to Suppress Lithuanian Independence |
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| 1996 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on 9-day Mission |
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| 1997 | 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Kills One Person in Michoacan, Mexico |
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| 1998 | Islamic Extremists Kill 400 in Two Algerian Villages |
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| 1999 | Nancy Hollister Ends Her Term as Ohio's First Woman Governor |
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| 2001 | U.S. Acknowledges the Massacre of Refugees by U.S. Soldiers During the Korean War |
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| FCC Approves America Online-Time Warner Merger |
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| 2002 | First Prisoners from the War on Terrorism Arrive at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba |
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| Ford Motor Announces Elimination of 35,000 Jobs, 5 Plants and 4 Models |
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