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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 poem by Lewis Carroll (according to the Academy of American Poets):
JACKY WOBBER |
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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 an opera by Giuseppe Verdi (according to The Classical Net):
CEB MATH |
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day
(Observed annually on this date to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, 1/27/1945) |
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Monaco: Saint Devote
(Celebration of the feast day of the patron saint of Monaco) |
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National Toilet Day
(Commemorates the life of Thomas Crapper, the person who popularized the flush toilet. He died 01/27/1910) |
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| 1832 | Lewis Carroll (English Children's Author) |
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| 1923 | Jean Merrill (New York-born Children's Author) |
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| 1928 | Harry Allard (Illinois-born Children's Author) |
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| 1939 | Julius Lester (Missouri-born African-American Children's Author) |
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| 1942 | Janice VanCleave (Texas-born Children's Author) |
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| 1956 | Susan Guevara (Latin-American Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1891 | Ilya Ehrenburg (Ukrainian Author) |
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| 1931 | Mordecai Richler (Canadian Author) |
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| 1935 | D. M. (Donald Michael) Thomas (English Author) |
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| 1756 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austrian Composer) |
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| 1869 | Will Marion Cook (Washington, D.C.-born African-American Composer of American Musicals) |
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| 1885 | Jerome Kern (New York City-born Composer of American Musicals) |
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| 1948 | Mikhail Baryshnikov (Latvian Ballet Dancer) |
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| 1829 | Friedrich August Kekulé (German Organic Chemist) |
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| 1887 | Carl Blegen (Minnesota-born Archaeologist) |
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| 1888 | Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (Swiss Geologist) |
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| 1903 | John Carew Eccles (Australian-born 1963 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine) |
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| 1936 | Samuel Chao Chung Ting (Michigan-born Asian-American 1976 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1850 | Hyman G. Rickover (Polish-American Pioneer of the United States' Nuclear Navy) |
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| 1808 | David Friedrich Strauss (German Theologian) |
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| 1850 | Samuel Gompers (English-American Labor Leader) |
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| 1859 | Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany |
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| 1890 | Ch'ing-ling Soong (Chinese Author; Wife of Sun Yet-sen |
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| 1944 | Mairead Corrigan Maguire (Irish 1976 Nobel Laureate for Peace) |
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| 1949 | Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini Zuma (South African Political Leader) |
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| 1955 | John G. Roberts, Jr. (Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1908 | Oran "Hot Lips" Page (Texas-born African-American Jazz Trumpeter) |
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| 1918 | Elmore James (Mississippi-born African-American Jazz Guitarist) |
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| 1921 | Donna Reed (Iowa-born Actress) |
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| 1930 | Robert Calvin "Bobby Blue" Bland (Tennessee-born African-American Jazz Musician) |
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| 1964 | Bridget Fonda (Los Angeles-born Actress) |
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| 1894 | Fritz Pollard (Chicago-born African-American Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1899 | Bibb Falk (Texas-born Baseball Player and Coach at the University of Texas) |
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| 1629 | Hieronymus Praetorius (German Organist, Composer) |
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| 1731 | Bartolomeo Cristofori (Italian Inventor of the Piano) |
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| 1851 | John James Audubon (Haitian-American Naturalist) |
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| 1901 | Giuseppe Verdi (Italian Composer) |
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| 1910 | Thomas Crapper (English Inventor of the Toilet) |
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| 1941 | Joseph Schafer (Superintendent of the Wisconsin State Historical Society) |
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| 1945 | Elizabeth "Plinky" Toepperwein (Connecticut-born Sharpshooter) |
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| 1965 | C. Douglass Buck, Sr. (Governor of Delaware: 1929-37; U.S. Congressman) |
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| 1967 | Virgil "Gus" Grissom (Indiana-born Astronaut) |
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| Ed White (Texas-born Astronaut) |
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| Roger Chaffee (Michigan-born Astronaut) |
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| 1972 | Mahalia Jackson (New Orleans-born African-American Gospel Singer) |
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| 1989 | Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith (English Aviation Pioneer) |
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| 1994 | Claude Akins (Georgia-born Actor) |
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| 2008 | Mohammed Suharto (Indonesian Dictator) |
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| 2009 | John Updike (Pennsylvania-born Two-time Putlizer Prize-winning Novelist) |
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| 2010 | J.D. Salinger (New York City-born Author) |
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| Howard Zinn (New York City-born Science Historian, Educator) |
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| 312 | Legend: Boat with Remains of Ste. Devote Washes Ashore at Monaco |
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| 537 | Byzantine Emperor Justinian Dedicates the Church of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) in Constantinople |
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| 1302 | Dante Alighieri Is Heavily Fined for Hostility to the Church and Corrupt Practices |
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| 1513 | First African-American Slaves Are Brought to Puerto Rico |
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| 1795 | University of Georgia Is Chartered as the First State University in the U.S. |
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| 1801 | The U.S. Senate Confirms John Marshall to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
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| 1803 | The Delaware General Assembly Fails to Abolish Slavery When the Speaker of the House Breaks a Deadlock Voting "No" |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a fine day, attempt to Cut our Boat and Canoos out of the Ice, a deficuelt Task I fear as we find waters between the Ice, I Bleed the man with the Plurisy to day & Swet him, Capt Lewis took of the Toes of one foot of the Boy who got frost bit Some time ago, Shabonoe our interpeter returned, & informed that the Assiniboins had returned to their Camps, & brough 3 horses of Mr. Laroches [Larocque with the Northwest Trading Company] to Stay here for fear of their being Stolen by the Assiniboins who are great rogues — Cut off the boy toes— Ordway: Cloudy. Some men employed Gitting hay from the prarie for to cover the blacksmith's kiln |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: This morning Collins set out for the Salt works. in the evening Shannon returned and reported that himself and party had killed ten Elk. he left Labuche and R. fields with the Elk. two of those Elk he informed us were at the distance of nine miles from this place near the top of a mountain, that the rout by which they mus be brought was at least four miles by land through a country almost inaccessible from the fallen timber, brush and sink-holes, which were now disgused by the snow; we therefore concluded to relinquish those two Elk for the present, and ordered every man who could be speared from the fort to go early in the morning in surch of the other eight.
Gass: This was a clear cold frosty morning, and the snow about 9 inches deep. Where the sun shone on it during the day, a considerable quantity of it melted; but these places were few, as the whole face of the country near this is closely covered with fir timber. |
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| 1826 | Virginia General Assembly Establishes the Town of Sutton, West Virginia |
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| 1827 | French Trader/Author Auguste Bernard Duhaut-Cilly, Captain of the French Ship Le Heros, Arrives in San Francisco |
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| 1838 | Abraham Lincoln Speaks Before Young Men's Lyceum on "Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions" |
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| 1839 | Episcopal Church Opens in Matagorda, Texas Despite Mexico's Required Allegiance to the Catholic Church |
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| 1840 | Alabama's Legislature Passes a Joint Resolution Accepting the Disputed Boundary Line with Georgia |
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| 1847 | Fugitive Kentucky Slaves Escape to Canada During Confrontation in Marshall, Michigan |
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| 1853 | Hampton, Arkansas Is Organized |
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| 1855 | Delaware Abolishes the Whipping of and Forced Wearing of Convict Jackets by White Women Convicted of Larceny |
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| 1861 | Lincoln Sets February 11th Departure for Washington, D.C., Requests Privacy Prior to Leaving" |
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| 1862 | Lincoln Issues General Order for All Union Forces to Advance on February 22 |
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| Samuel Jones Relieves Braxton E. Bragg as Commander of the Confederate Army of Pensacola |
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| Noah Swayne Is Sworn In as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1880 | Thomas Edison Is Granted Patent #23,898 for His Incandescent Light |
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| 1882 | Ward Hunt Retires as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1895 | Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Is First Performed in Its Entirety at St. Petersburg's Mayinsky Theater |
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| 1899 | In France, Camille Jenatzy Sets Land Speed Record (49.932 mph) in Battery-powered Automobile |
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| 1904 | Driving in France, an American Sets First Land-Speed Record in a Gasoline Automobile (76.086mph) |
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| 1911 | The Arkansas Library Association Is Organized |
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| 1916 | Woodrow Wilson Makes Three Speeches in New York to Generate Support for World War I |
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| 1918 | German Laborers Prepare to Strike |
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| The First Tarzan Film, Tarzan of the Apes, Is Released |
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| 1924 | Lenin's Body Is Placed in a Temporary Wooden Mausoleum in Red Square |
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| 1925 | In Alaska, a Dog Team Begins a 9-day Relay to Carry Serum from Nenana to Fight a Diphtheria Epidemic in Nome |
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| 1926 | The U.S. Senate Approves United States Adherence to the World Court Protocol |
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| John Logie Baird Demonstrates First True Television System in London |
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| 1937 | Flooding Along the Ohio River Reaches Its Highest Point at Jeffersonville, Indiana |
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| 1941 | Delta Airlines Announces Plans to Make Atlanta, Georgia Its Base |
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| 1943 | U.S. Fliers Execute First All-U.S. Bombing of Germany at Wilhelmshaven |
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| 1944 | Soviet Army Breaks Germany's 880-day Siege of Leningrad |
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| National Institute for Arts and Letters Awards Gold Medal for "Distinguished Achievement" to Willa Cather |
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| 1945 | Soviet Army Continues Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camps in Poland |
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| 1948 | First Magnetic Tape Recorder Goes on Sale for $49.50 |
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| 1951 | U.S. Air Force Plane Explodes a One-kiloton Nuclear Bomb in Nevada |
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| 1953 | Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man Wins the National Book Award |
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| 1955 | Robert McFerrin Debuts As Metropolitan Opera's First Black Male Performer |
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| 1957 | An Unexploded Bomb Is Found on Front Porch of Martin Luther King's Montgomery, AL Home |
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| 1959 | The Duke of Edinburgh Lays the Cornerstone for the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi |
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| 1960 | In Minnesota, Grand Portage National Monument Is Dedicated |
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| 1961 | Leontyne Price Debuts at the Metropolitan Opera in Il Trovatore |
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| 1964 | France Establishes Diplomatic Relations with the People's Republic of China |
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| Margaret Chase Smith Becomes the First Female Presidential Candidate for a Major Party |
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| DuPont Introduces "Corfam" Synthetic Substitute for Leather |
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| 1967 | Apollo Astronauts Grissom, Chaffee and White Perish in Capsule Flash Fire |
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| More Than 60 Nations Sign Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons in Space |
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| Leon Kirchner's Pulitzer Prize-Winning "Quartet No. 3 for Strings and Electronic Tape" Is First Performed in New York City |
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| 1973 | 9-point Vietnam Cease-fire Agreement Signed in Paris |
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| 1975 | U.S. Senate Begins Investigation of FBI and CIA Activities |
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| 1976 | Laverne and Shirley Premieres |
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| 1977 | Vatican Reaffirms Roman Catholic Tradition of Male-only Priests |
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| 1980 | Opposition Leader Robert Mugabe Returns to Rhodesia After Five Years in Exile |
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| Magnitude 5.4 Earthquake is Centered Near Livermore, California |
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| 1981 | President Reagan Greets the 52 Former American Hostages Released by Iran |
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| 1982 | Mauno Koivisto Is Elected President of Finland |
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| 1985 | Coca Cola Announces Plans to Open Sales in the Soviet Union |
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| 1987 | President Ronald Reagan Delivers State of the Union Address to Congress |
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| Marcos Loyalists Seize Manila Communications Sites, but Fail to Seize Control of Country |
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| 1988 | Senate Judiciary Committee Unanimously Approves Anthony Kennedy for Supreme Court |
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| 1991 | Rebels Force Somalian Dictator, Muhammad Siyad Barre, to Flee Mogadishu |
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| 1996 | Military Coup Overthrew Niger's Democratically Elected President, Mahamane Ousmane |
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| 2000 | President Bill Clinton Delivers His Final State of the Union Address |
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| Bill Belichick Is Named Head Coach of the New England Patriots |
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