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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 title of a book written by Debbi Chocolate (according to 1-800-Volunteer.org):
CREOLE KNOTS |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a novel by Gloria Naylor (according to African American Registry):
LID SHELL INN |
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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 1925 work by Virginia Woolf (according to the Authors' Calendar):
COMMANDEER OTHER |
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Angola: Luanda's City Day
(Commemorates the founding of the city of Luanda by the Portuguese in 1575) |
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Aruba: Betico Croes' Birthday
(Commemorates the birth date of Aruba statesman, Gilberto Francois Betico Croes: 01/25/1759) |
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Russia/Ukraine: Tatiana's Day/Students' Day
(Commemorates the founding of Moscow University on the feast day of Saint Tatiana: 01/25/1775) |
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Scotland: Burns Night
(Commemorates the birth date of Scotland's national poet, born 01/25/1759) |
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| 1914 | James Flora (Ohio-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1923 | Barbara Jean (Rich) Rinkoff (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1930 | Hilma Wolitzer (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1935 | Roy Gerrard (English Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1951 | Debbi Chocolate (Illinois-born African-American Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1954 | Nicki Weiss (New York City-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| David Grossman (Israeli Journalist, Children's Author) |
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| 1759 | Robert Burns (Scottish Poet) |
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| 1874 | William Somerset Maugham (English Author) |
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| 1882 | Virginia Woolf (English Author) |
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| 1919 | Edwin Newman (New York City-born Television Journalist, Author) |
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| 1950 | Gloria Naylor (New York-born African-American Novelist) |
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| 1863 | Rufus Jones (Maine-born Quaker Scholar and Historical Writer) |
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| 1786 | Benjamin Robert Haydon (English Artist) |
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| 1910 | Viljo Revell (Finnish Architect) |
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| 1911 | Julia Smith (Texas-born Composer, Pianist) |
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| 1921 | Alfred Reed (New York City-born Composer, Conductor) |
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| 1627 | Robert Boyle (English Chemist: Boyle's Law) |
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| 1736 | Joseph-Louis Lagrange (Italian Mathematician) |
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| 1900 | Theodosius Dobzhansky (Ukrainian Geneticist, Evolutionary Biologist) |
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| 1917 | Ilya Prigogine (Russian Chemist, 1977 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) |
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| 1923 | Arvid Carlsson (Swedish 2000 Nobel Laureate for Medicine or Physiology) |
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| 1783 | William Colgate (English-American Founder of Colgate-Palmolive Company) |
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| 1825 | George Edward Pickett (Virginia-born Confederate General) |
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| 1509 | Giovanni Morone (Italian Cardinal, Diplomat) |
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| 1878 | Harry Lyman Davis (Governor of Ohio) |
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| 1814 | Francis Pierpont ("Father of West Virginia") |
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| 1928 | Eduard Shevardnadze (President of the Republic of Georgia) |
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| 1933 | Corazon Aquino (President of the Republic of the Philippines) |
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| 1938 | Gilberto Francois Betico Croes (Aruba Statesman) |
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| 1891 | William C. Bullitt (Pennsylvania-born American Diplomat) |
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| 1899 | Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgian Statesman) |
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| 1896 | Florence Mills (Washington, D.C.-born African-American Singer, Dancer) |
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| 1911 | Charles "Truck" Parham (Chicago-born African-American Bassist, Drummer) |
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| 1938 | Etta James (Los Angeles-born African-American Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) |
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| 1943 | Tobe Hooper (Texas-born Filmmaker) |
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| 1981 | Alicia Keys (New York City-born African-American Singer) |
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| 1918 | Ernie Harwell (Georgia-born Media Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1924 | Lou Groza (Ohio-born Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1779 | Vicente Álvarez Travieso (Spanish Leader of the Isleño Settlers of San Antonio, TX) |
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| 1906 | Joe Wheeler (Georgia-born Confederate General) |
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| 1919 | C. C. (Lum) Slaughter (Texas-born Cattle Rancher) |
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| 1947 | Al Capone (New York City-born Gangster) |
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| 1949 | Peter Marshall (Scottish-born Chaplain to the U.S. Senate) |
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| 1999 | Robert Shaw (California-born Musical Conductor) |
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| 1348 | Earthquake Kills 5,000 in Austria |
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| 1533 | England's King Henry VIII Secretly Marries Second Wife, Anne Boleyn |
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| 1553 | Royal University of Mexico Begins to Offering Courses |
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| 1776 | The First National War Memorial Is Authorized by the Continental Congress |
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| 1787 | Farmers Fail to Capture Springfield, MA Arsenal During Shays' Rebellion |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a verry fine warm Day Several Indians Dine with us and are much Pleased— one man taken violently Bad with the Plurisee, Bleed & apply those remedeis Common to that disorder.
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clear & cold this morning. the men generally employed at cutting and Splitting coal wood & Setting up the Gass: All hands were employed in cutting away the ice, which we find a tedious business. |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: Commowooll and the Clatsops departed early this morning. At meridian Colter returned and repoted that his comrade hunter Willard had continued his hunt from point Adams towards the salt makers; and that they had killed only those two deer which the Indians brought yesterday. In the evening Collins one of the saltmakers returned and reported that they had mad about one bushel of salt & that himself and two others had hunted from the salt camp for five days without killing any thing and they had been obliged to subsist on some whale which they procured from the natives.
The native fruits and buries in uce among the Indians of this neighbourhood are a deep purple burry about the size I have lately learned that the natives whome I have heretofore named as distinct nations, living on the sea coast S. E. of the Killamucks, are only bands of that numerous nation, which continues to extend itself much further on that coast than I have enumerated them, but of the particular appellations of those distant bands I have not yet been enabled to inform myself; their language also is somewhat different from the Clatsops Chinnooks and Cathlâhmâhs; but I have not yet obtaind a vocabulary which I shall do the first oportunity which offers. [The Tillamooks belonged to the coastal division of the Salishan-language family. South of them along the coast were some small groups belonging to the Alsean, Siuslawan, and Coosan-language families; the Alseas and the Yaquinas, the Siuslaws, the Coos, and the Umpquas]
Gass: The morning was cloudy and some showers of snow fell in the course of the day; and in the night it fell to the depth of 8 inches. |
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| 1814 | Petitioners of the "Republic of East Florida" Ask Congress to Admit Their Republic into the Union |
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| 1834 | The Florida Legislature Creates Hillsborough County |
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| 1839 | In Wilmington, Delaware, 300 Women Put Forth a Petition to Abolish Slavery |
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| Republic of Texas Congress Adopts the Texas Coat of Arms |
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| 1842 | Seminole Indians Attack Federal Soldiers in Florida's Wahoo Swamp, Killing One |
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| 1845 | Lincoln Joins in Request for Use of Illinois House of Representative for Temperance Meeting |
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| 1846 | Abraham Lincoln Campaigns for Congress in Petersburg, Illinois |
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| 1849 | The City of Tampa, Florida Is Incorporated |
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| 1850 | Lincoln Sends President Taylor Recommendation for Illinois Federal Judge Appointment |
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| 1855 | Iowa Wesleyan College Is Granted Its Charter |
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| 1859 | Abraham Lincoln Attends a Banquet Commemorating 100th Anniversary of Birth of Robert Burns |
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| 1863 | Ambrose Burnside Is Removed as Commander of the Army of the Potomac |
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| Boston Anti-Slavery Group Complains to Lincoln the Emancipation Proclamation Isn't Working |
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| 1864 | General Henry W. Allen Is Installed as Governor of Confederate Louisiana |
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| 1865 | Abraham Lincoln Writes Message for Celebration of 106th Anniversary of Birth of Robert Burns |
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| President Lincoln Reviews 30 Court Martial Cases |
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| 1867 | In St. Paul, Minnesota, the Mansion House Hotel Burns to the Ground |
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| 1886 | A 6-day Bicycle Race Begins in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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| 1890 | United Mine Workers of America Is Founded in Columbus, OH |
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| T. Thomas Fortune Leads Founding of Militant National Afro-American League |
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| Reporter Nellie Bly Completes Her Trip Around the World in 72d 6h 11m 14s |
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| 1895 | James J. Corbett Knocks Out Charley Mitchell to Retain His Heavyweight Boxing Title |
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| 1905 | The World's Largest Diamond, the 3,106 Carat Cullinan Diamond, Is Discovered in a Pretoria, South Africa Mine |
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| 1907 | Julia Ward Howe Is First Woman Elected to the National Institute of Arts & Letters |
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| 1909 | The First Performance of Richard Strauss' Opera Elektra Is Given in Dresden, Germany |
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| 1915 | In New York City, Alexander Graham Bell Makes the First Transcontinental Telephone Call to His Assistant Thomas Watson in San Francisco |
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| 1919 | Paris Peace Conference Delegates Approve Establishing a Commission on the League of Nations |
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| 1921 | Karel Capek Coins the Word "Robot" in Premiere of Play Premiere at Prague's National Theater |
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| 1924 | The First Winter Olympic Games Open At Chamonix, France |
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| 1926 | Hollywood Film Studios Open Central Casting |
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| 1930 | U.S. Surgeons Demonstrate Latest Techniques at Pan American Medical Association Convention in Panama |
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| 1932 | The Janesville, Wisconsin Council Fails to Pass an Ordinance That Would Permit Dancing on Sunday |
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| 1939 | 8.3 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 28,000 in Chile |
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| 1941 | William Faulkner Publishes "Go Down, Moses" in Collier's |
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| 1942 | Thailand Declares War on the United States and England |
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| 1944 | Florence Time-Oi Lee of Macao Is the First Female Ordained a Priest in the Anglican Church |
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| 1945 | Grand Rapids City, MI Approves Addition of Fluoride to Drinking Water |
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| For $2.8 Million, Dan Topping and Del Webb Buy the New York Yankees |
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| 1949 | The First Emmy Awards Are Presented |
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| 1955 | William Faulkner Accepts the National Book Award for Fiction for A Fable |
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| 1956 | Khrushchev Declares That Eisenhower Is "Striving For Peace" |
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| 1959 | American Airlines Boeing 707 Makes First Transcontinental Jet Flight |
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| Alaska's First Indoor Artificially Heated Swimming Pool Opens in Fairbanks |
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| 1960 | Penalties Proposed for Disc Jockeys Accepting Payola |
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| Eugène Ionesco's Rhinoceros Premieres at the Odéon in Paris |
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| 1961 | John F. Kennedy Presidential News Conference First Broadcast on Live TV |
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| 1964 | NASA & Soviet Union Cooperate in Launch of Echo 2 Test Communications Satellite |
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| 1965 | South African anti-Apartheid Sympathizer, Abram Fischer, Jumps Bail to Avoid Trial |
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| 1966 | Constance Baker Motley First Female African-American Federal Judge |
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| 1971 | Idi Amin Ousts Uganda's President Milton Obote |
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| Charles Manson Is Found Guilty of Murdering Sharon Tate and Six Others |
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| 1972 | President Nixon Reveals Secret Peace Negotiations with North Vietnamese |
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| 1975 | 7.5 & 7.0 Magnitude Earthquakes (90 Minutes Apart) Kill Only 1 in Taiwan |
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| 1978 | The "Blizzard of '78" Drops 15.5" of Snow on Indianapolis, Indiana |
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| 1980 | Three African National Congress (ANC) Guerrillas Are Killed Demanding Mandela's Release |
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| Black Entertainment Television (BET) Begins Broadcasting |
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| 1981 | 52 Americans Held Hostage in Iran for 444 Days Return to U.S. |
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| Mao Zedong's Widow Is Sentenced to Death for Treason |
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| Laingsburg, South Africa Flood Kills 104 |
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| 1983 | NASA Launches Infrared Astronomical Satellite, IRAS, for Asteroid and Comet Survey |
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| Federal Court Rules Minnesota Ojibwe Retain the Hunting and Gathering Rights Guaranteed by 19th-century Treaties |
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| 1984 | President Reagan Endorses the Development of a Permanent U.S. Space Station |
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| 1985 | U.S. Postal Service Issues Stamp Commemorating the University of Georgia's Bicentennial |
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| 1988 | George H.W. Bush Bristles at Questions of His Role in Iran-Contra Affair |
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| San Francisco Dedicates Jack Kerouac Street to the "Father of the Beat Generation" |
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| 1993 | Gunman Kills Two CIA Employees Outside Agency Headquarters in Virginia |
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| President Clinton Appoints Wife, Hillary, to Head Health-Care Reform Committee |
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| 1995 | Scientific Missile Launch in Norway Almost Triggers Russian Nuclear Response |
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| 1998 | Pope John Paul II Calls for Reform in Cuba |
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| Denver Defeats Green Bay 31-24 in Super Bowl XXXII |
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| 1999 | 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 1,800+ in Colombia |
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| Six Members of the International Olympic Committee Face Bribery Charges |
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| Supreme Court Rules 2000 Census Can Not Use Statistical Sampling |
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| 2003 | NASA Launches Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Satellite |
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| Serena Williams Defeats Big Sister, Venus, to Win the Australian Open Tennis Title |
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| 2004 | Second NASA Rover, Opportunity, Lands on Mars |
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