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JANUARY 22 |
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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 name of a children's author or illustrator born on this date:
LL BENT AIR |
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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 1916 work by Thornton Wilder (according to Authors' Calendar)
HER FIBER ROT |
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 Francis Bacon Born on This Date 1561 [Gale Group]
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 Lord Byron Born on This Date 1788 [Scottish Library Authority]
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 Willa Brown Born on This Date 1906 [State of Kentucky]
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 Lev Landau Born on This Date 1908 [Nobel Foundation]
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 Rafe Martin Born on This Date 1946 [National Association of Childbearing Centers] 
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Catholicism: Feast Day of Saint Vincent of Saragossa
(Observed on this date to commemorate Vincent of Saragossa, who was martyred in Spain on this date in 304) |
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| 1927 | Sheila Gordon (South African Children's Author) |
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| 1930 | Blair Lent (Massachusetts-born Children's Author, Illustrator Who Received 1973 Caldecott Medal for The Funny Little Woman) |
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| Brian Wildsmith (English Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1946 | Rafe Martin (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1951 | Michael Scott Rohan (Scottish Children's Author) |
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| 1561 | Francis Bacon (English Statesman, Philosopher, Author Who Led the English Renaissance) |
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| 1729 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (German Philosopher, Dramatist, Critic) |
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| 1788 | Lord Byron (English Poet) |
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| 1849 | August Strindberg (Swedish Playwright, Novelist) |
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| 1894 | Charles Morgan (English Author) |
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| 1922 | Howard Moss (New York City-born Poet, Editor of the New Yorker) |
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| 1937 | Joseph Wambaugh (Pennsylvania-born Crime Novelist) |
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| 1802 | Richard Upjohn (English-born American Architect) |
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| 1879 | Francis Picabia (Paris-born Artist, Writer) |
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| 1897 | Rosa Ponselle (Connecticut-born Coloratura Soprano) |
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| 1904 | George Balanchine (Russian-born American Choreographer) |
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| 1923 | Leslie Bassett (California-born Composer) |
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| 1924 | James Louis ("J.J.") Johnson (Indiana-born African-American Jazz Composer, Trombonist) |
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| 1906 | Willa Brown (Kentucky-born African-American Aviator) |
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| 1865 | Louis Paschen (German Physicist, Spectroscopist) |
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| 1908 | Lev Davidovich Landau (Azerbaijani 1962 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1850 | Robert Brookings (Maryland-born Businessman, Philanthropist) |
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| 1892 | Marcel Dassault (Paris-born Industrialist, Designer of the French Mirage Fighter Jet) |
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| 1440 | Czar Ivan III of Russia |
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| 1570 | Robert Bruce Cotton (His Collection of Early British Charters, Royal Letters, Correspondence, Registers, Coins Became Part of the British Museum) |
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| 1819 | Morton S. Wilkinson (New York-born Member of the U.S. Congress from Minnesota) |
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| 1890 | Fred M. Vinson (Kentucky-born 13th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court) |
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| 1909 | U Thant (Myanmar-born Third Secretary General of the United Nations) |
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| 1928 | Birch Evan Bayh, Sr. (Indiana U.S Senator: 1962-1980) |
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| 1935 | Pierre du Pont, IV (Delaware Governor: 1977-1985; U.S Congressman: 1971-1977) |
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| 1875 | D.W. Griffith (Kentucky-born Film Director) |
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| 1920 | William Warfield (Arkansas-born African-American Actor, Singer) |
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| 1921 | Sylvia Rexach (Puerto Rican Popular Musician) |
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| 1932 | Piper Laurie (Detroit-born Actress) |
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| 1934 | Bill Bixby (California-born Actor) |
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| 1935 | Sam Cooke (Chicago-born African-American Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) |
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| 1940 | John Hurt (English Actor) |
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| 1965 | Diane Lane (New York-born Actress) |
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| 1981 | Beverly Mitchell (California-born Actress) |
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| 1972 | Elvis Stojko (Canadian Olympic Ice Skater) |
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| 304 | Vincent of Saragossa (Spanish-born Catholic Saint: First Martyr of Spain) |
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| 1666 | Shah Jahan (Indian Builder of the Taj Mahal) |
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| 1779 | Jeremiah Dixon (English Surveyor of the Mason-Dixon Line) |
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| Claudius Smith (Rebel Tory Leader, Hanged in Goshen, New York) |
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| 1887 | Joseph Whitworth (English Engineer, Inventor) |
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| 1901 | Queen Victoria of England |
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| 1909 | Richard A C E Erlenmeyer (German Chemist) |
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| 1915 | Anna B. Warner (New York-born Children's Author, Hymnist: "Jesus Loves Me") |
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| 1922 | Pope Benedict XV (Italian-born Pope: 1914-1922) |
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| James Bryce (Irish Historian, Jurist, Statesman |
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| 1927 | John McCausland (Missouri-born Confederate General) |
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| 1969 | Judy Garland (Minnesota-born Singer, Actress: Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz) |
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| 1973 | Lyndon Johnson (Texas-born 36th President of United States) |
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| 1995 | Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (Massachusetts-born Matriarch of the "Kennedy Clan") |
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| 1510 | Maximilian I Grants Permission to Banish All Jews from Colmar, Germany |
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| 1779 | Rebel Tory Leader, Claudius Smith, Is Hanged in Goshen, New York |
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| 1803 |
 Letter from President Jefferson to Captain Lewis: They reason why I have sent pictures of Mr. Evans is because he is believed to be in search of the Welsh Indians (which are believed to be up the Missouri. N. Orleans was given to the U'States on Dec 20 and the government has established there. You should tell the people (or) Indians that you pass along your trip that their late fathers, the Spaniards have agreed to withdraw all their troops from the water adn country of the Mississippi and Missouri, that the U.S. has becone their fathers and friends. Tell them that you have been sent to enquire into the nature of the country and the nations inhibiting it-to know at what places and times we must establish stores of goods among them to exchange for their pettries. Make an especially friendly impression on the Sioux if you pass them because of their emmense power and because we learn they are very desirous of being on friendly terms with us. The philosophical society has made you a member, just thought you would want to know. |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: The party sent for the meat this morning returned with it in the Evening; it was in very inferior order, in short the animals were poor. Reubin Fields also remained with the other hunters Shannon & Labuish our late supply of salt is out. we have not yet heared a sentence from the other two parties of hunter's who are below us towards Point Adams and the Praries. |
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| 1812 | State of Louisiana Adopts Its First Constitution |
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| 1813 | British, Canadians and Indians Kill 80 Americans and Capture 500 at River Raisin Near Monroe, Michigan |
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| 1818 | Creek Indians Sign the Treaty of Creek Agency Ceding to Georgia Land South of the Altamaha River |
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| 1821 | Ohio's Government Authorizes the Creation of School Districts and Tax to Support Schools |
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| The First Steamboat Arrives in Houston, Texas |
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| 1840 | The First British Colonists to New Zealand Arrive at Port Nicholson on Auckland Island |
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| 1849 | The "Alta California" Is the First Daily Newspaper in California |
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| 1855 | Chief Seattle, Puget Sound Tribal Leaders and Washington's Territorial Governor Sign the Point Elliott Treaty |
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| 1857 | In Minnesota, St. John's University Is Chartered by Five Benedictine Monks |
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| In Michigan, the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad Is Chartered |
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| 1859 | Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 in d, Op. 15 Is First Performed by the Hanover Court Orchestra with the Composer as the Soloist |
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| 1861 | New York Authorities Seize 200 Guns Purchased for Shipment to Macon, Georgia |
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| 1866 | A Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly Calls for Removal of Federal Troops from the State |
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| 1867 | The Northwestern Railroad is the First to Reach Council Bluffs, Iowa |
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| 1872 | Lonoke, Arkansas Is Incorporated |
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| Arkansas Industrial University Opens in Fayetteville |
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| 1879 | Zulu Warriors Route the British at IsandIwana: 1271 British Troops Die |
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| In Nebraska, U.S. Troops Kill More Than 30 Cheyenne Indians Attempting to Return to Their Wyoming Homeland |
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| James Shields Is First U.S. Senator to Serve Three States (MO, IL, MN) |
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| 1882 | Fifth Street Presbyterian Church of Troy, New York, Is First Church in America to be Lit by Electric Lights |
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| 1883 | Texas Repeals Act Offering Land at $.50 an Acre Due to Fraudulent Land Speculation |
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| 1889 | The Columbia Phonograph Company Is Formed to Lease Graphophones to Businesses |
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| 1895 | Lifebuoy Soap is Trademarked |
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| 1901 | West Virginia's Legislature Passes a Joint Resolution Honoring Spanish- American War Hero Andrew S. Rowan |
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| 1905 | First Russian Revolution Begins as Czar's Troops Slaughter Hundreds of Peaceful Labor Protestors |
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| 1906 | SS Valencia Wrecks on Canada's Vancouver Island: 136 Crew & Passengers Die, 37 Survive |
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| 1912 | The Florida East Coast Railway Connecting to Key West Is Completed |
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| 1917 | Woodrow Wilson Calls for "Peace without Victory" End to WWI |
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| 1922 | Itasca, Minnesota Records a Temperature of -51° F |
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| 1923 | 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake Off the Coast of Humboldt County, California Causes Severe Damage to Many Homes and Buildings |
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| 1924 | Ramsay MacDonald British Is Elected as the Labour Party's First Prime Minister |
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| 1929 | In Key West, Florida, Ernest Hemingway Completes His Final Draft of A Farewell to Arms |
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| 1932 | U.S. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) Is Created |
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| 1935 | Snow Is Reported in the Florida Panhandle |
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| 1936 | Warroad, Minnesota Records a Temperature of -55° F |
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| 1938 | Thornton Wilder's Our Town Is First Performed in Public in Princeton, New Jersey |
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| 1939 | The First Uranium Atom Is Split at Columbia University |
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| 1941 | British & Australians Take Tobruk, Libya |
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| 1944 | Allies Begin Landing at Anzio, Italy |
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| 1946 | The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Is Established by Presidential Directive |
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| 1947 | Hollywood's KLA-TV Is First Television Station West of Mississippi |
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| 1949 | Chinese Communist Forces Take Control of Beijing |
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| 1950 | Soviet and Chinese Leaders Meet in Moscow to Discuss the Presence of Soviet Troops in Manchuria |
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| Auto Maker Preston Tucker Is Cleared of Fraud Charges |
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| 1953 | Arthur Miller's The Crucible Premieres in New York |
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| 1956 | 30 Die and 117 Are Injured in Los Angeles Train Crash |
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| 1959 | Following a Federal Court Decision and Local Civil Rights Rally, Atlanta, Georgia Buses Are Integrated |
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| 1964 | Kenneth Kaunda Becomes the Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) |
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| In Wisconsin, a 17.4-Ton Block of Cheddar Cheese Is Produced for the New York World's Fair |
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| 1965 | NASA Launches TIROS 9 Television Infrared Observation Satellite Weather Satellite |
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| 1967 | In Minnesota, Radio Station KSJR (Minnesota Public Radio) Begins Broadcasting from St. John's University in Collegeville |
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| 1968 | NASA Launches the Unpiloted Apollo 5 Spacecraft for First Orbital Test of the Lunar Module |
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| Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In Premieres on NBC |
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| The National Basketball Association Awards a Franchise to be Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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| 1969 | NASA Launches OSO-5 Orbiting Solar Observatory |
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| 1970 | First Regularly-Scheduled Commercial Boeing 747 Flight Is Made from New York to London |
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| 1971 | Communist Rebels Attack Cambodia's Capital Phnom Penh with Artillery for the First Time |
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| 1972 | NASA Launches British-Built Intelsat 4 Commercial Communications Satellite |
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| 1973 | U.S. Supreme Court Legalizes Abortion with Roe v. Wade Decision |
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| In Jamaica, George Foreman TKO's Joe Frazier for Heavyweight Boxing Title |
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| The Orlando "Sentinel" and the Orlando "Evening Star" Combine as the "Sentinel Star" |
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| 1975 | NASA Launches Landsat 2 Mapping Satellite into Orbit |
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| 1979 | Walkout by British Public Sector Employees Is Largest Since 1926 |
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| 1980 | Soviets Arrest Andrei Sakharov for Criticizing Military Intervention in Afghanistan |
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| The PGA Tournament Policy Board Approves Plans to Create a New Senior PGA Tour |
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| 1984 | The Oakland Raiders Defeat the Washington Redskins 38-9 in Super Bowl XVIII |
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| Apple Super Bowl Advertising Announces the Macintosh |
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| 1985 | 90% of Florida's Citrus Crop Is Destroyed by the State's Worst Freezing Weather of the 20th Century |
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| 1988 | 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake Is Felt Across Two-Thirds of Australia |
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| 1989 | 5.3 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 274 People in Tajikistan |
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| Joe Montana Leads the San Francisco 49ers to a 20-16 Super Bowl Victory Over the Cincinnati Bengals |
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| 1990 | Soviet Troops Move into Azerbaijan |
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| 1991 | Texas Supreme Court Rules the State's System of Public School Funding Is Unconstitutional |
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| 1992 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-42) for 8-day Microgravity Laboratory Mission |
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| Dr. Roberta Bondar Is Canada's First Woman in Space |
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| 1996 | Former South Korea Leaders Are Charged with Treason and Mutiny for 1980 Massacre of pro-Democracy Activists |
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| 1997 | Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-81) Returns from 5th MIR Docking |
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| Madeleine Albright Is Confirmed as the First Female U.S. Secretary of State |
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| Kansas Woman Is the First Human to be Hit by Falling Space Debris |
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| 1998 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-89) for 8th MIR Docking |
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| 2002 | K-Mart Is the Largest Retailer to File Chapter 11 Bankruptcy |
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