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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 work by Vera B. Williams (according to Reading Is Fundamental):
ROE COST |
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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 work by Richmond Barthé (according to Long Island University):
SIERRA VET |
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Rwanda: Democracy Day
(Celebration of the anniversary of the formation of the Republic of Rwanda: 01/28/1961) |
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| 1927 | Vera B. Williams (California-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1932 | Ann Jonas (New York-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1841 | Henry Morton Stanley (Welsh-American News Correspondent for the New York Herald, Famous for Finding Dr Livingstone in Africa) |
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| 1853 | José Martí (Cuban Poet, Revolutionary) |
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| 1862 | Franklin Hooper (Massachusetts-born Editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica) |
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| 1869 | Virgilio Dávila (Puerto Rican Poet) |
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| 1873 | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (French Novelist) |
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| 1916 | Virgilio Ferreira (Portuguese Novelist) |
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| 1935 | David Lodge (English Novelist) |
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| 1887 | Arthur Rubinstein (Polish-American Classical Pianist) |
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| 1901 | Richmond Barthé (Mississippi-born African-American Sculptor) |
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| 1912 | Jackson Pollock (Wyoming-born Artist) |
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| 1929 | Claes Oldenburg (Swedish-American Artist) |
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| 1884 | Jean & Auguste Piccard (Swiss-born Belgian Balloonists) |
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| 1611 | Johannes Hevelius (Polish Astronomer) |
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| 1855 | William Burroughs (New York-born Inventor of the First Commercially-Successful Adding Machine) |
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| 1903 | Kathleen Lonsdale (English Pioneer of X-ray Crystallography) |
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| 1828 | Thomas Hindman (Tennessee-born Confederate General) |
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| 1833 | Charles George Gordon (English General) |
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| 1954 | Rick Warren (California-born Religious Leader, Author) |
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| 1457 | Henry VII, King of England |
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| 1762 | William Stephens (English Statesman; First Governor of Colonial Georgia) |
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| 1768 | Frederick VI, King of Denmark |
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| 1822 | Alexander MacKenzie (Prime Minister of Canada) |
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| 1874 | James Larkin (Irish Labor Leader) |
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| 1892 | Arnst Lubitsch (German/American Film Director) |
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| 1936 | Alan Alda (New York City-born Actor) |
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| 1968 | Sarah McLachlan (Canadian Singer, Songwriter) |
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| 1981 | Elijah (Jordan) Wood (Iowa-born Actor) |
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| 1957 | Nick Price (South African Member of the World Golf Hall of Fame) |
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| 814 | Charlemagne (King of the Franks, Emperor of the West, Founder of the Holy Roman Empire) |
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| 1547 | Henry VIII, King of England |
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| 1596 | Francis Drake (English Explorer) |
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| 1612 | Thomas Bodley (English Founder of Oxford University's Bodleian Library) |
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| 1725 | Peter the Great, Czar of Russia |
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| 1859 | William Hickling Prescott (Massachusetts-born Historian) |
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| 1908 | John Coburn (Indiana-born Attorney, Legislator, Civil War General, U.S. Congressman) |
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| 1927 | John Ottis Adams (Indiana-born Artist; First Instructor in Painting and Drawing at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis) |
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| 1938 | Bernd Rosemeyer (German Race-Car Driver Killed Trying to Break the Public Road Speed Record) |
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| 1939 | William Butler Yeats (Irish Poet; 1923 Nobel Laureate in Literature) |
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| 1960 | Zora Neale Hurston (Florida-born African-American Author) |
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| 1976 | Vivian Henderson (Tennessee-born African-American Educator, Civil Rights Advocate) |
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| 1985 | John Koenakeefe Mohl (South African Artist) |
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| 1986 | Christa McAuliffe (Massachusetts-born Teacher, Astronaut Killed in the Challenger Disaster) |
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| Gregory Jarvis (New York-born Astronaut Killed in the Challenger Disaster) |
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| Ronald McNair (South Carolina-born African-American Physicist, Astronaut Killed in the Challenger Disaster) |
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| Ellison S. Onizuka (Hawaii-born Asian-American Astronaut Killed in the Challenger Disaster) |
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| Judith A. Resnik (Ohio-born Astronaut Killed in the Challenger Disaster) |
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| Francis R. Scobee (Washington-born Astronaut Killed in the Challenger Disaster) |
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| Michael J. Smith (North Carolina-born Astronaut Killed in the Challenger Disaster) |
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| 1994 | Hal Smith (Otis Campbell on the Andy Griffith Show) |
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| 1996 | Jerry Seigel (Ohio-born Cartoonist; Creator of Superman) |
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| Joseph Brodsky (Russian-American Poet Laureate of the United States; 1987 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 2002 | Astrid Lindgren (Swedish Children's Author) |
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| 1547 | 10-year-old Edward VI Succeeds His Father, Henry VIII, as King of England |
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| 1770 | Lord Frederick North Begins His Administration as Prime Minister of England |
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| 1777 | British General, John Burgoyne, Submits a Plan to Isolate New England from the Other Colonies |
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| 1790 | Delaware's General Assembly Formally Adopts the First 11 of the Original 12 Proposed Amendments to the New US Constitution |
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| 1791 | Alexander Hamilton Recommends Establishing a National Mint |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: attempt to cut through the ice &c get our Boat and Canoo out without Suckcess, Several Indians here wishing to get war hatchets made the man Sick yesterday is getting well Mr. Jessome our interpeter was taken verry unwell this evening warm day Ordway: Clear and cold. all hands employed cutting the Ice from round the Barge. Got large pry bars & attempted to Shake hir loose but found that we could not move hir without considerable more cutting or other means. |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: Drewyer and Baptiest La Page set out this morning on a hunting excurtion. about noon Howard and Werner returned with a supply of salt; the badness of the weather and the difficulty of the road had caused their delay. they inform us that the salt makers are still much straitened for provision, having killed two deer only in the last six days; and that there are no Elk in their neighourhood. The party that were sent this morning up Netul river for the Elk returned in the even ing with three of them only; the Elk had been killed just before the snow fell which had covered them and so altered the apparent face of the country that the hunters could not find the Elk which they had killed. the river on which Fort Clatsop stands we now call Ne-tul, this being the name by which the Clatsops call it. The Cranbury of this neighbourhood is precisely the same common to the U' States, and is the production of marshey or boggy grounds. The light brown berry, is the fruit of a tree about the size shape and appearance in every rispect with that in the U. States called the wild crab apple; the leaf is also precisely the same as is also the bark in texture and colour. the berrys grow in clumps at the end of the small branches; each berry supported by a seperate stem, and as many as from 3 to 18 or 20 in a clump. the berry is ovate with one of it's extremities attatched to the peduncle, where it is in a small degre concave like the insertion of the stem of the crab apple. I know not whether this fruit can properly be denominated a berry, it is a pulpy pericarp, the outer coat of which is in a thin smoth, tho' firm tough pillecle; the pericarp containing a membranous capsule with from three to four cells, each containing a seperate single seed in form and colour like that of the wild crab. The wood of this tree is excessively hard when seasoned. the natives make great uce of it to form their wedges with which they split their boards of pine for the purpose of building houses. these wedges they also employ in spliting their fire-wood and in hollowing out their canoes. I have seen the natives drive the wedges of this wood into solid dry pine which it cleft without fracturing or injuring the wedge in the smallest degree. we have also found this wood usefull to us for ax handles as well as glutts or wedges. the native also have wedges made of the beams of the Elk's horns which appear to answer extremely well. this fruit is exceedingly assid, and resembles the flavor of the wild crab.
Gass: A clear cold morning, and the weather continued cold all day. About half of our men were employed in bringing home meat; and it was found a very cold uncomfortable business. The two men who lately went to the salt works returned with a small supply. |
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| 1807 | London's Pall Mall Is the First Street Lit by Gaslights |
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| 1825 | Delaware's General Assembly Bars African-Americans from Coming Within a 1/2 Mile of Polling Booths on Election Day |
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| 1831 | In Florida, the Name of the West Point Community Is Changed to Apalachicola |
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| 1836 | Italian Hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, Prospero Bernardi, Arrives in Texas Aboard the Schooner Pennsylvania |
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| 1846 | Montgomery Is Selected as the Capital of Alabama by the State Legislature on the 16th Ballot |
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| 1851 | Illinois State Legislature Approves Northwestern University's Act of Incorporation |
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| The Oregon Territorial Legislature Creates Lane County in Honor of Governor Joseph Lane |
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| 1855 | The First Train Crosses the Isthmus of Panamá |
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| 1861 | President-elect Abraham Lincoln Accepts an Invitation to Visit Indianapolis, Indiana en Route to His Inauguration in Washington, D.C. |
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| 1863 | The USS. Sagamore Captures and Destroys the British Blockade Runner, Elizabeth, at the Mouth of Florida's Jupiter Inlet |
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| 1864 | The U. S. Schooner, Beauregard, Captures the British Blockade-Runner Racer North of Cape Canaveral, Florida |
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| The British Steamer Rosita Is Captured by the U.S. Army Transport Steamer Western Metropolis Near Key West, Florida |
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| 1866 | The San Francisco Golden Era Publishes the Short Story, "Captain Montgomery," by Mark Twain |
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| 1870 | New Mexico Businessman, Frontiersman, Lucien B. Maxwell, Sells 1.7 Million Acres of Land to a British Investment Group for $1,350,000 |
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| 1871 | The Franco-Prussian War Ends, France Loses Alsace-Lorraine |
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| 1872 | 5.7 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 188 People in Samaxi, Azerbaijan, Leaving About 30,000 People Homeless |
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| 1873 | U.S. Patent #135,245 Is Obtained by French Chemist Louis Pasteur for a Process of Brewing Beer and Ale |
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| 1877 | Lumberman, Winfield Scott Gerrish, Opens the Lake George and Muskegon River Railroad in Clare County, Michigan |
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| 1878 | The Yale Daily News Is First Published |
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| 1882 | In Ohio, Findlay College Is Established |
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| 1885 | The Florida Legislature Approves the Incorporation of the City of Ocala |
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| 1890 | Farmers in Clarks Grove, Minnesota Form a Dairy Cooperative |
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| 1902 | The Andrew Carnegie Institution Is Established |
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| 1904 | University of Chicago Begins the Tradition of Awarding Athletic Letters |
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| 1908 | Julia Ward Howe Is the First Woman Elected to American Academy of Arts & Letters |
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| 1912 | The First Presbyterian Church Is Dedicated in Orange, Texas - Possibly as the First Air-Conditioned Building West of the Mississippi River |
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| 1914 | Beverly Hills, California Is Incorporated |
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| 1915 | German Military Sinks the U.S. Merchant Ship William P. Frye Off the Coast of Brazil |
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| President Woodrow Wilson Signs the Act Creating the Coast Guard |
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| 1916 | President Woodrow Wilson Nominates Louis Brandeis as the First Jewish Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1917 | American Forces Are Recalled from Mexico After Nearly 11 Months of Fruitless Searching for Mexican Revolutionary Pancho Villa |
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| 1918 | Civil War Breaks Out in Finland Between the Red Supporters of the Russian Bolsheviks and the White Opposition |
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| In Atlanta, Georgia Barbers Raise the Price of a Shave From 15 to 20 Cents |
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| 1922 | The Green Bay Packers Are Expelled from the American Professional Football Association for Using Notre Dame Players under Assumed Names |
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| 1927 | Boeing Wins Federal Contract to Transport Mail Between Chicago and San Francisco |
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| 1932 | 70,000 Japanese Troops Land at Shanghai, Forcing the Chinese 19th Route Army to Retreat |
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| Wisconsin Is the First State to Approve Unemployment Compensation |
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| 1937 | Rolls-Royce Wraith Makes Its First Test Run |
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| 1938 | German Race-Car Driver, Rudolf Caracciola, Sets a Public Road Speed Record (268.496 mph) on a German Autobahn |
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| German Race-Car Driver, Bernd Rosemeyer, Is Killed Trying to Break Rudolf Caracciola's Public Road Speed Record |
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| 1940 | Half of the Town of Candle, Alaska Is Destroyed by Fire |
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| 1942 | Pro-Axis Saboteurs Attempt to Destabilize Gold Mine Production by Destroying 5 South African Power Stations |
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| 1945 | Allied Forces Break Japan's Blockade of China by Opening the 717-mile "Burma Road" Giving China a Supply Line to India |
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| 1946 | Canadian Racing Schooner "Bluenose" Is Wrecked on a Reef and Sinks Off the Coast of Haiti |
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| 1949 | Jack Kerouac Leaves New York Beginning Hs Second Cross Country Trip |
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| 1954 | Dick's Drive-in Begins Serving Hamburgers in Seattle, Washington |
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| 1956 | Elvis Presley Makes His First-Ever Television Appearance on the Musical-Variety Program Stage Show |
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| 1958 | Roy Campanella Is Paralyzed in Auto Accident |
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| Ferenc Münnich Becomes Chairman of Hungary's Council of Ministers |
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| The United States Air Force Successfully Tests Its Thor Missile Cape Canaveral, Florida |
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| Danish Inventor, Kirk Christiansen, Submits a Patent for the Interlocking Plastic Lego Brick |
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| 1959 | Vince Lombardi Is Named Head Coach of the NFL's Green Bay Packers |
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| 1960 | The NFL Announces New Franchises for Dallas & Minnesota |
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| 1961 | Republic of Rwanda Is Formed |
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| 1963 | Harvey Gantt Is the First African-American Student Admitted to Clemson University |
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| 1964 | A U.S. Military Jet Is Shot Down over East German Airspace |
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| 1968 | Goose Goslin & Kiki Cuyler Elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
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| Teams Search Near Greenland for the Wreckage of U.S B-52 Bomber Armed with 4 Hydrogen Bombs |
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| 1969 | The Blowout of a Union Drill Platform in California's Santa Barbara Channel Covers 20 Miles of Coastline with Oil |
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| 1973 | Vietnam Cease-fire Agreement Goes into Effect |
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| 1975 | President Ford Asks for Military Aid to South Vietnam & Cambodia |
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| 1978 | Fantasy Island Premieres |
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| 1982 | U.S. Conducts Nuclear Test in Nevada |
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| Italian Police Rescue U.S. Brigadier General James Dozier - Held Hostage by the Red Brigade for 42 Days |
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| 1985 | 45 Top Artists Record "We Are the World" for Hunger Relief |
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| 1986 | Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes 72 Seconds after Takeoff |
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| 1988 | Canada's Supreme Court Declares Abortion Ban Unconstitutional |
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| 1989 | In South Africa, Ultraconservative Members of the Afrikaaner Resistance Movement Organize the White Freedom Movement |
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| 1990 | In Romania, Thousands Demonstrate Against the Interim Government of Ion Iliescu. |
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| 1996 | The Dallas Cowboys Defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers 27-17 in Super Bowl XXX |
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| 1997 | Appearing Before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Four Police Officers Admit to Killing Black anti-Apartheid Leader Stephen Biko 1997 |
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