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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 an author, poet or journalist born on this date:
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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 1965 work by Shahnon Ahmad
(according to the Authors' Calendar)
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Finland, Norway, Sweden: Tjugondag Knut/St. Knut's Day/Twentieth Day
(Official end of the Yuletide season: 20 days after Christmas) |
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Togo: Liberation Day
(Commemoration of 1967 coup) |
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United States: Stephen Foster Memorial Day
(Remembrance of Foster on the anniversary of his death: 1/13/1864) |
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| 1834 | Horatio Alger (Massachusetts-born Children's Author) |
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| 1922 | N. M. Bodecker (Danish Poet, Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1931 | Flora Nwapa (Nigerian Children's Author) |
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| 1940 | Edmund White (Ohio-born Children's Author) |
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| 1894 | Adam Bartosz (Polish-American Publisher of Polish-Language Publications; Advocate of Polish Immigrants) |
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| 1898 | Kaj Munk (Danish Playwright) |
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| 1926 | Carolyn Heilbrun (New Jersey-born Author) |
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| 1933 | Shahnon Ahmad (Malaysian Novelist) |
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| 1955 | Jay McInerney (Connecticut-born Screenwriter) |
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| 1957 | Lorrie Moore (New York-born Novelist) |
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| 1962 | Elizabeth Searle (Pennsylvania-born Novelist) |
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| 1596 | Jan van Goyen (Dutch Artist) |
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| 1870 | Ross Granville Harrison (Connecticut-born Embryologist) |
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| 1807 | Napoleon Bonaparte Buford (Kentucky-born Union Soldier) |
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| 1808 | Salmon P. Chase (New Hampshire-born Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court) |
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| 1850 | Charlotte E. Ray (New York-born First African-American Female Admitted to Practice Law) |
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| 1912 | Horace Rains (Georgia-born African-American Physician) |
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| 1884 | Sophie Tucker (Russian-American Singer, Actress) |
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| 1926 | Melba Liston (Missouri-born African-American Jazz Trombonist) |
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| Gwen Verdon (California-born Dancer, Actress) |
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| 1934 | Rip Taylor (Washington, D.C.-born Actor) |
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| 1939 | Mike Ahern (Illinois-born Broadcast Journalist in Indianapolis) |
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| 1949 | Brandon Tartikoff (New York-born Television Executive) |
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| 1961 | Julia Louis-Dreyfus (New York City-born Actress) |
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| 1966 | Patrick Dempsey (Maine-born Actor) |
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| 1691 | George Fox (English Founder of the Quaker Religion) |
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| 1864 | Stephen Foster (Pennsylvania-born Songwriter) |
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| 1905 | Joseph H. Diss Debar (French-American Artist Who Designed the Great Seal of West Virginia) |
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| 1929 | Wyatt Earp (Illinois-born Gunfighter, U.S. Marshall) |
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| 1946 | James Joyce (Irish Author) |
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| 1963 | Sylvanus Olympio (President of Togo: Assassination) |
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| 1978 | Hubert Humphrey (South Dakota-born U.S. Senator from Minnesota; Vice-President of the United States) |
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| 1990 | Sterling Brown (Washington, D.C-born African-American Poet) |
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| 2010 | Teddy Pendergrass (Pennsylvania-born African-American Popular Musician) |
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| 1501 | First Hymnbook Printed in the Vernacular of the People Includes 89 Hymns in the Czech Language |
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| 1733 | James Oglethorpe and Georgia's First 114 Colonists Arrive in Charles Town, SC Harbor Aboard the Anne |
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| 1776 | British Raid Prudence Island in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay |
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| 1794 | President Washington Approves Adding 2 Stars & 2 Stripes to the American Flag |
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| 1803 |
 Letter to Lewis from President Jefferson: I think you should wait to move until spring. Your journey has inspired, and sparked interest to the rest of the people in the U'States. I wish you safety and success. |
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| 1805 |
Clark: a Cold Clear Day (great number of Indians move Down the River to hunt) those people Kill a number of Buffalow near their Villages and Save a great perpotion of the meat, it is their Custom that all meat is shared in common among all members of the tribe, instead of being the property of the man who killed it and his family, and leaves them more than half of their time without meat Their Corn & Beans &c they Keep for the Summer, and as a reserve in Case of an attack from the Soues, which they are always in dread, and Sildom go far to hunt except in large parties, about ˝ the Mandan nation passed this to day to hunt on the river below, they will Stay out Some Days, Mr. Chabonee (our inturpeter) and one man that accompanied him to Some loges of the Minatarees near the Turtle Hill returned, both frosed in their faces. Chaboneu informs that the Clerk of the Hudsons Bay Co. with the Me ne tar res has been Speaking Some fiew expressns. unfavourable towards us, and that it is Said the N W Co. intends building a fort at the Mene tar re's— he Saw the Grand Chief of the Big bellies [Hidatsa or Gross Ventre Indians] who Spoke Slightly of the Americans, Saying if we would give our great flag to him he would Come to See us. Ordway: a clear cold morning. 2 men went last evening a hunting. the Savages visit us as meat is Scarce among them they Intrude on us and we use them as well as possable. Mr Sharbinow arived in the evening with the horses loaded with Grees fat meat &.C. Gass: A clear cold day. A number of the natives went down the river to hunt with our men. In the evening one of our interpreters and another Frenchman who had gone with him to the Assiniboins for fur returned. They had their faces so badly frost bitten that the skin came off, and their guide was so badly froze that they were obliged to leave him with the Assiniboins. This nation live near the Rocky Mountains, and about 90 miles from fort Mandan. |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: This morning I took all the men who could be spared from the Fort and set out in quest of the flesh of the seven Elk that were killed yesterday, we found it in good order being untouched by the wolves, of which indeed there are but few in this country; at 1 P. M. we returned having gotten all the meat to the fort. this evening we exhausted the last four candles, but fortunately had taken the precaution to bring with us moulds and wick, by means of which and some Elk's tallow in our possession we do not yet consider ourselves destitute of this necessary article; the Elk we have killed have a very small portion of tallow. The traders usually arrive in this quarter, as has been before observed, in the month of April, and remain untill October; when here they lay at anchor in a bay within Cape Disappointment on the N. side of the river; here they are visited by the natives in their canoes who run along side and barter their comodities with them, their being no houses or fortification on shore for that purpose. The bay in which this trade is carryed on is spacious and commodious, and perfectly secure from all except the S. and S. E. winds, these however are the most prevalent and strong winds in the Winter season fresh water and wood are very convenient and excellent timber for refiting and reparing vessels.— |
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| 1829 | Completion of the Survey of the Cherokee Line in the Northwest Portion of the Arkansas Territory Is Announced |
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| 1832 | Andrew Jackson Opposes South Carolina Nullification of a Federal Tariff |
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| 1837 | When the Hudson's Bay Company's Refuses to Sell Cattle Oregon Settler's Organize the Willamette Cattle Company |
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| 1842 | British Army Doctor Is Lone Survivor of 16,000 Massacred in Afghanistan |
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| 1847 | The Capitulation at Cahuenga Ends a Year of Fighting Between American and Mexican Forces in California, |
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| 1849 | Putnam County, Florida Is Established |
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| 1858 | Ralph P. Lowe Becomes the Governor of Iowa |
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| 1861 | Shots from the Federal Garrison Force Confederates to Abandon Efforts to Surround Fort Pickens |
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| 1862 | Lincoln Advises Secretary of War Cameron He Is to Be Recommended As Minister to Russia |
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| 1864 | Lincoln Sends John Hay to Florida to Reconstruct the State's Government |
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| Lincoln Asks General Banks to Reconstruct the State Government for Louisiana |
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| U.S.S. Two Sisters Captures the Schooner William Off Florida's Suwannee River |
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| 1866 | The African American Pilgrim Baptist Church Is Formally Organized in St. Paul, Minnesota |
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| 1868 | Commanding General George Meade Removes Georgia's Provisional Governor from Office |
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| 1873 | P. B. S. Pinchback Relinquishes Governorship of Louisiana |
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| 1879 | Earthquake Strikes St. Augustine, Florida |
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| 1880 | A Fire at the St. Peter State Hospital in Minnesota, Kills 10-15 of the Resident Patients |
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| 1888 | National Geographic Society Is Founded in Washington, D.C. |
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| 1892 | Classes Are First Held At Washington State University |
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| 1893 | Britain's Independent Labor Party, Meets for the First Time |
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| 1898 | Émile Zola's Defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, ''J'accuse,'' Is Published in Paris |
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| 1903 | First Known Korean Immigrants to the U.S. Arrive in Hawaii |
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| Granville T. Woods Is Issued U.S. Patent #718,183 for an Electric Railway Switch |
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| 1906 | American Motor Car Manufacturers Association Opens First Auto Show in NYC |
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| 1910 | Enrico Caruso Is Broadcast Live from the New York Metropolitan Opera |
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| 1913 | Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Is Founded by 22 Collegiate Women at Howard University |
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| 1915 | 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Avezzano, Italy: 29,980 Die |
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| 1916 | British Attack Turkish Positions on the Banks of Mesopotamia's Wadi River |
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| 1922 | Allied Governments Agree to Temporarily Postpone Germany's Reparations Payments |
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| WHA Radio Is Founded in Madison, Wisconsin |
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| 1928 | The First Experimental Television Program Is Broadcast to Schenectady, New York |
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| 1930 | The First Mickey Mouse Comic Strip Is Published in the New York Mirror |
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| 1931 | In Delaware, Estelle Tschudy of Smyrna Takes Her Seat as the First Downstate Woman Elected to the General Assembly |
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| 1935 | 90% of Saar Region Voter Choose to Incorporate into Germany Rather than France |
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| 1937 | The First Shipment of Gold Bullion Is Made to the Fort Knox Bullion Depository |
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| 1939 | Vivien Leigh Signs to Play Scarlett O'Hara in Movie "Gone With The Wind" |
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| 1942 | Leaders of 9 Occupied Countries Vow to Prosecute NAZI Criminals at War's End |
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| Sikorsky XR-4, Single-Rotary Wing, Two-man Helicopter, Makes Its First Successful Flight |
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| Henry Ford Patents the Plastic Automobile Body |
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| 1943 | Construction of the Pentagon Is Completed in Arlington County, Virginia |
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| 1944 | The Wife of the Mayor of Duluth, Minnesota Christens the Military Cruiser Duluth Launched in Newport News, Virginia |
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| 1946 | In Alaska, the Anchorage Daily News Is Established with Norman Brown as Editor and Publisher |
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| 1950 | Soviets Protest United Nations' Refusal to Recognize Communist China |
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| 1953 | TASS Reports a Conspiracy of Doctors Intended to Provide Harmful Treatments to Soviet Leaders |
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| Don Barksdale Is First African American to play in An NBA All-Star Game |
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| 1957 | Wham-O Company Begins Mass-Production of the Frisbee |
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| 1960 | 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 57 in Southern Peru |
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| 1961 | Federal Judge Orders University of Georgia to Re-admit Two African-American Students |
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| Convair B-58 Hustler Jet Bomber Breaks Six World Speed Records |
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| 1963 | Togo President Olympio Is Assassinated in an Uprising of Non-commissioned Army Officers |
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| 1964 | More Than 100 Die in Hindu-Muslim Rioting in Calcutta, India |
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| 1966 | Robert C. Weaver Is First African-American to Hold a Cabinet Position (HUD) |
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| 1967 | Togo President Nicholas Grunitzky Is Ousted in Bloodless Military Coup |
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| 1972 | Nixon Announces 70,000 U.S. Troops to Leave Vietnam over Next Three Months |
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| Military Commander Seizes Control of Ghana while Prime Minister Is Out of Country |
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| 1974 | The Dallas–Fort Worth International Airport Officially Opens |
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| 1976 | First Computer Capable of Translating Printed Text into Speech Is Demonstrated |
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| 6.5 Magnitude Earthquake Leaves 150 Homeless in Iceland |
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| 1978 | NASA Selects Its First Women Astronauts |
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| 1979 | U. S. Postal Service Issues Stamp Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| 1982 | 737 Crashes into the Potomac after Take-off From Washington, D.C.: 78 die |
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| Henry Aaron and Frank Robinson Are Voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame |
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| 1986 | NASA Researchers Discover Uranus Moons Desdemona, Rosalind & Belinda |
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| 1988 | Supreme Court Rules (5-3) Public School Officials May Censor Students |
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| 1990 | Douglas Wilder Is First Elected & Inaugurated African-American Governor |
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| 2.5 Magnitude Earthquake Is Largest in Maryland's Recorded History |
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| 1991 | Vilnius Demonstrators Slain after Lithuania Declares Independence from Soviet Union |
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| 1992 | Japanese Apologize for the Enslavement of Korean Women During World War II |
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| 1993 | American, British and French Fighter Jets Bomb Southern Iraq |
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| NASA Launches Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-54) on 6-Day Mission |
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| 1994 | GTE Announces It Will Cut 17,000 Jobs |
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| 1995 | The Menominee Tribe Sues the State of Wisconsin for Violation of Treaty Rights |
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| 1997 | Left-wing Guerrillas Open Fire on Police Outside the Japanese Embassy in Lima |
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| 1999 | Michael Jordan Announces His Retirement from Professional Basketball |
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| 2000 | Bill Gates Resigns As Microsoft CEO/President, Replaced by Steve Ballmer |
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| 2001 | Earthquake of 7.6 Magnitude Devastates El Salvador: 840 Die |
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| 2002 | President Bush Chokes on Pretzel & Faints While Watching Football Game |
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| The Fantasticks Closes Off-Broadway after 17,162 Shows Over Nearly 42 Years |
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