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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 children's author or illustrator born on this date:
A SAND NO MERRY |
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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 English title of a 1953 film by Federico Fellini
(according to Author's Calendar)
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| Cheese Day |
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Brazil: Saint Sebastian Day
(The patron saint of soldiers, archers and athletes) |
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Bulgaria: Baba Den (Grandmother's Day)
(Holiday of pagan origins in honor of all those who help care for small children) |
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Ethiopia: Timket (Epiphany)
(Jan 18-20 three-day celebration of the Epiphany in accordance with the Julian calendar) |
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Guinea-Bissau: National Heroes Day
(Commemoration of the assassination of freedom fighter Amílcar Cabral: 1/20/1973) |
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Laos: Army Day
(Commemorates the creation of the Laos Army: 01/20/1949) |
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Mali: Armed Forces Day
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United States: Inauguration Day
(Observed per the 20th Amendment since 1937) |
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| 1910 | Helen Hoover (Ohio-born Children's Author) |
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| 1939 | Mary Anderson (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1949 | Tedd Arnold (New York-born Children's Author) |
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| 1873 | Johannes V. Jensen (Danish Poet; 1944 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1902 | Nâzim Hikmet (Turkish Poet, Playwright) |
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| 1945 | Robert Olen Butler (Illinois-born Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction) |
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| 1950 | Edward Hirsch (Chicago-born Poet) |
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| 1894 | Harold Lincoln Gray (Illinois-born Cartoonist) |
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| 1586 | Johannes Schein (German Composer) |
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| 1894 | Eva Jessye (Kansas-born African-American Composer, Choral Director, Writer, Actress) |
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| 1895 | Walter Piston (Maine-born Composer) |
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| 1930 | Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin Jr. (New Jersey-born Astronaut) |
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| 1775 | André-Marie Ampère (French Physicist) |
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| 1910 | Joy Adamson (Austrian Naturalist, Author) |
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| 1931 | David Lee (New York-born Physicist; 1996 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1732 | Richard Henry Lee (Virginia-born Statesman; Signer of the Declaration of Independence) |
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| 1734 | Robert Morris (English-American Merchant Who Signed the Declaration of Independence) |
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| 1815 | Josiah W. Begole (Governor of Michigan born in New York) |
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| 1856 | Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (New York-born Woman's Suffrage Advocate) |
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| 1920 | Cardinal John O'Connor (Pennsylvania-born Roman Catholic Cardinal) |
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| 1877 | Ruth St. Denis (American Dancer) |
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| 1896 | George Burns (New York City-born Comedic Actor; 1975 Best Actor Academy Award for Sunshine Boys) |
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| 1920 | Federico Fellini (Italian Filmmaker) |
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| DeForest Kelley (Georgia-born Actor) |
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| 1924 | Slim Whitman (Florida-born Country & Western Singer) |
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| 1926 | Patricia Neal (Kentucky-born Actress) |
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| 1935 | Luther Tucker (Tennessee-born African-American Blues Guitarist) |
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| 1937 | Dorothy Provine (South Dakota-born Actress) |
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| 1946 | David Lynch (Montana-born Filmmaker) |
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| 1956 | Bill Maher (New York city-born Political Commentator) |
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| 1568 | Miles Coverdale (English Publisher of the First Printed English Bible) |
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| 1612 | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor |
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| 1779 | David Garrick (English Actor) |
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| 1828 | Sarah Lincoln Grigsby (Kentucky-born Sister of Abraham Lincoln) |
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| 1907 | Dmitr Mendeleev (Russian Organizer of the Periodic Table of Elements) |
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| 1936 | King George V, King of England |
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| 1947 | Josh Gibson (Georgia-born African-American Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1973 | Amílcar Cabral (Guinea Nationalist Leader: Assassinated) |
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| 1984 | Johnny Weissmuller (Hungarian-American Member of the Swimming Hall of Fame) |
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| 1993 | Audrey Hepburn (Belgian Actress) |
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| 1320 | Wladyslaw I (Wladyslaw the Short) Is Crowned King of Poland |
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| 1603 | The Oregon Cape Framed by a 700' Cliff Is Named "Cape Sebastian" by Explorer Sebastian Vizcaino in Honor of Saint Sebastian |
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| 1649 | The Trial of King Charles I of England Begins in Westminster Hall |
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| 1633 | 68-year-old, Galileo Leaves Florence to Face the Inquisition in Rome |
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| 1702 | French Colonists Establish Fort Louis de la Mobile 27 Miles Up River from Mobile Bay |
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| 1733 | Georgia's First Colonists Arrive Aboard the Anne at Beaufort on Port Royal Island |
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| 1777 | Patriot Militia Defeat 500 British Troops At Millstone, New Jersey |
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| 1778 | Captain James Cook Lands at Waimea Bay on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai |
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| 1788 | African Baptist Church Founded in Savannah, GA, by a Slave, Andrew Bryan |
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| 1801 | President John Adams Helps to Put Out a Fire at the Treasury Department |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a Cold fair day Several Indians at the fort to day
a miss understanding took place between the two inturpeters on account of their Squars, one of the Squars of Shabownes [Toussaint Charbonneau] Squars
Gass:
I went up with one of the men to the villages. They treated us friendly and gave us victuals. After we were done eating they presented a bowlful to a buffaloe head, saying, "eat that." Their superstitious credulity is so great, that they believe by using the head well the living buffaloe will come and that they
Whitehouse:
We still continued to have clear cold weather.
some of our Men went up to the 1st Mandan Indian Village, on their return they informd us, that they had been well used by the Indians of that Town, and that they had given them, plenty to eat, of buffalo Meat, beans, & pounded Corn boil'd.—
They informed us, that after they had finish'd eating
They are Indians of very Quick apprehension, of anything in their way; and Conceited in themselves to a fault.—
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| 1806 |
Lewis: Visited this morning by three Clatsops who remained with us all day; the object of their visit is mearly to smoke the pipe. on the morning of the eighteenth we issued 6 lbs. of jirked Elk pr. man, this evening the Sergt. repoted that it was all exhausted; the six lbs. have therefore lasted two days and a half only. at this rate our seven Elk will last us only 3 days longer, yet no one seems much concerned about the state of the stores; so much for habit. we have latterly so frequently had our stock of provisions reduced to a minimum and sometimes taken a small touch of fasting that three days full allowance excites no concern. In those cases our skill as hunters afford us some consolation, for if there is any game of any discription in our neighbourhood we can track it up and kill it. most of the party have become very expert with the rifle. The Indians who visited us today understood us sufficiently to inform us that the whites did not barter for the pounded fish; that it was purchased and consumed by the Clatsops, Chinnooks, Cathlahmah's and Skillutes. The native roots which furnish a considerable proportion of the subsistence of the indians in our neighbourhood are those of a species of Thistle, fern and rush; the Liquorice, and a small celindric root the top of which I have not yet seen, this last resembles the sweet pittatoe very much in it's flavor and consistency. |
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| 1807 | Brockholst Livingston Is Sworn In As Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court |
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| 1809 | William Maclure Publishes the First Geology Book in the United States |
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| 1824 | In Delaware, the African School Society of Wilmington Is Incorporated by African Americans for the Education of Their Children |
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| 1827 | Jefferson County, Florida Is Created in Honor of President Thomas Jefferson |
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| 1828 | Sarah Lincoln Grigsby, Sister of Abraham Lincoln, Dies Giving Childbirth |
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| 1830 | Louisiana's First Railroad Is Chartered |
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| 1841 | Convention of Chuanbi Cedes Island of Hong Kong from China to Great Britain |
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| 1845 | The Gift Publishes "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allen Poe |
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| 1857 | William Kelly Patents the Blast Furnace for Manufacturing Steel |
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| 1863 | President Lincoln Sets the Gauge (Track Width) of the Union Pacific Railroad at 5' |
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| President Lincoln Denies Request to Extend Railroad Service to Springfield, Missouri |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln Orders a Gubernatorial Election to Take Place in Arkansas by April 11 |
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| 1865 | President Lincoln Places a Ban on the Exportation of Hay from the United States |
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| 1870 | Hiram Revels Elected to Fill U. S. Senate Seat Vacated by Jefferson Davis |
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| Victoria Woodhull & Tennessee Claflin Open First Female U.S. Brokerage Firm |
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| 1874 | U.S. Patent #146,697 for A "Steam Lubricator" Is Issued to E.J. McCoy |
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| 1880 | Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House Premieres at the Christiania Theatre in Oslo, Norway |
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| 1881 | In Delaware, Wilmington Replaces the City of New Castle as the County Seat of New Castle County |
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| 1887 | U.S. Senate Approves Agreement to Lease Hawaii's Pearl Harbor as Naval Base |
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| In Jasper County, Indiana, the Village of Kniman Is Laid Out by H. Kniman, for Whom the Village Named. |
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| 1890 | Florida's First Major Steel Railroad Bridge Opens over the St. John's River |
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| 1896 | Mark Twain Visits Bombay While on a Lecture Tour of India |
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| Calamity Jane (Martha Cannary Burk) Appears at the Palace Museum in Minneapolis. Minnesota |
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| 1903 | The Wizard of Oz Premieres on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre, New York |
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| 1908 | The Virginia Theater Opens in Wheeling, West Virginia |
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| 1918 | Bolsheviks Issue Decree Disestablishing Religion in Russia and Confiscating Church Properties |
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| British Defeat Raid by German Battleships Goeben and Breslau on the Aegean Sea |
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| 1927 | 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library Opens Negro Division |
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| 1929 | Old Arizona, First Outdoor Full Length Motion Picture, Is Released |
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| 1931 | United Textile Workers at Virginia's Schoolfield Mills End an Unsuccessful 4-month Strike |
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| 1933 | Franklin Roosevelt Is Inaugurated as President of the United States |
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| Iowa Legislature Ratifies the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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| 1936 | Britain's King George V Dies and Is Succeeded by Edward VIII |
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| 1937 | Franklin Roosevelt First President Inaugurated under Provisions of the 20th Amendment |
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| 1942 | Nazis Leaders Conference to Discuss "Final Solution" of the "Jewish Question." |
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| 1944 | "Texas Division" Suffers Heavy Casualties Crossing the Rapido River in Italy |
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| 1945 | Franklin Roosevelt Is Inaugurated for a Record Fourth Presidential Term |
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| 1949 | Truman's Inaugural Speech Calls for Technical & Scientific Foreign Aid |
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| 1953 | In Delaware, J. Caleb Boggs Is Sworn In as Governor at Midnight in Order to Attend President Eisenhower's Inauguration the Same Day |
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| 1961 | Robert Frost Recites His Poem "The Gift Outright" at President Kennedy's Inauguration |
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| The 78-piece Milton, Wisconsin Union High School Band Marches in JFK's Inauguration Parade in Washington, D.C. |
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| 1968 | UCLA Streak of 47 Victories Ends with 71-69 Loss to U. Houston in Astrodome |
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| 1969 | Richard Nixon Is Inaugurated As 37th President of the United States |
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| President Lyndon B. Johnson Bestows the Medal of Freedom on Civil Rights Leader Roy Wilkins |
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| In Alaska, the Cape Newenham National Wildlife Refuge Is Created |
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| 1970 | 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake Kills One on Japan's Island of Hokkaido |
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| 1973 | Richard Nixon Is Inaugurated for His Second Term As President |
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| Guinea Freedom Fighter Amílcar Cabral Assassinated by Portuguese Agents |
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| 1977 | Jimmy Carter Is Inaugurated as President of the United States |
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| Patricia Roberts Harris First African-American Female Cabinet Appointee |
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| Floridians See Snow as Far South as Dade County |
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| 1978 | Janet Reno Begins Her Tenure As Florida's First Female State Attorney |
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| 1980 | Pittsburgh Defeats Los Angeles 31-19 to Win Its Fourth Super Bowl |
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| President Jimmy Carter Announces U.S. Boycott of Olympics in Moscow |
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| 1981 | Ronald Reagan Is the Oldest President to take Office (69 years and 349 days). |
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| Iran Releases 52 Americans Held Hostage for 444 Days |
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| 1982 | Seattle's First General Interest Newspaper for the Chinese Community Is Issued |
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| A 3-day Snowstorm Begins That Will Drop 3' of Snow on the Minnesota Twin Cities |
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| 1986 | Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Is Celebrated as a Federal Holiday for the First Time |
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| Lesotho Chief Jonathan Is Overthrown in a Coup by Major General JM Lekhanya |
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| Britain and France Announce Plans to Build the Channel Tunnel. |
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| NASA Researchers Discover Uranus Moons Cordelia & Ophelia |
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| 1987 | Lebanese Islamic Militia Kidnap Church of England Peace Envoy, Terry Waite |
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| 1989 | George H.W. Bush Inaugurated as 41st U.S. President |
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| 1993 | Maya Angelou Recites "On The Pulse of the Morning" at Clinton Inauguration |
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| 1996 | Yasser Arafat Is First Democratically-elected Leader of Palestinian People |
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| Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-72) Completes 9-day Mission |
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| 1998 | Researchers Engineer Two Cloned Calves to Produce High-protein Milk |
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| 2001 | George W. Bush Inaugurated as 43rd U.S. President |
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| U.S. Senate Confirms Rod Paige As First African-American Secretary of Education |
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| Filipino Protesters Force the Resignation of President Joseph Estrada |
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| 2005 | George W. Bush Inaugurated for Second Term As U.S. President |
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| 2009 | Barack Obama Is Inaugurated as the First African-American U.S. President |
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