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JANUARY 31 |
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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 Denise Fleming (according to her Scholastic booklist):
PILOT ESTEEM |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a 1922 work by Zane Grey (according to Authors' Calendar):
LOST THAN TAME |
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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 book by Norman Mailer (according to the History Channel):
MOST FAHRENHEIT EIGHT |
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National Popcorn Day
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Nauru: Independence Day
(Celebration of independence from United Kingdom-administered United Nations trusteeship: 01/31/1968) |
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| 1941 | Gerald McDermott (Detroit-born Artist of Children's Folktale Picture Books) |
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| 1950 | Denise Fleming (Ohio-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1967 | Bryan Collier (Maryland-born African-American Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1798 | William Apess (Massachusetts-born Native-American Religious Figure, Author) |
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| 1872 | Zane Grey (Ohio-born Novelist of the American West) |
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| 1893 | Freya Madeline Stark (English Explorer, Writer) |
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| 1905 | John O'Hara (Pennsylvania-born Novelist, Short Story Writer) |
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| 1915 | Thomas Merton (French Author, Poet, Diarist) |
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| Abbott Lamoyne Ferriss (Mississippi-born Sociologist, Educator, Author) |
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| 1923 | Norman Mailer (New Jersey-born Author: Awarded Pulitzer Prizes in 1969 and 1980) |
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| 1935 | Kenzaburo Oe (Japanese Novelist: 1994 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1797 | Franz Schubert (Austrian Composer) |
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| 1881 | Anna Pavlova (Russian Dancer) |
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| 1921 | Mario Lanza (Pennsylvania-born Tenor, Actor) |
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| 1937 | Philip Glass (Maryland-born Composer) |
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| 1929 | Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (German Physicist: 1961 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1764 | David Blackshear (North Carolina-born Georgia Militia General; Namesake of Blackshear, Georgia) |
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| 1734 | Robert Morris (Pennsylvania-born Signer of the Declaration of Independence) |
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| 1878 | W. W. Trent (West Virginia State Superintendent of Schools) |
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| 1920 | Stewart Udall (Arizona-born U.S. Congressman, Secretary of the Interior) |
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| 1925 | Benjamin Hooks (Tennessee-born African-American Civil Rights Leader) |
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| 1938 | Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands |
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| 1892 | Eddie Cantor (New York City-born Actor, Singer) |
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| 1903 | Tallulah Bankhead (Alabama-born Actress) |
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| 1906 | Roosevelt Sykes (Arkansas-born African-American Blues Singer) |
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| 1923 | Carol Channing (Washington-born African-American Actress, Singer) |
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| 1926 | Jean Simmons (English Actress) |
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| 1937 | Suzanne Pleshette (New York City-born Actress) |
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| 1940 | Jessica Walter (New York City-born Actress) |
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| Stuart Margolin (Iowa-born Actor) |
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| 1942 | Derek Jarman (English Music Video Director) |
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| 1959 | Kelly Lynch (Minnesota-born Actress) |
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| 1971 | Minnie Driver (English Actress) |
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| 1981 | Justin Timberlake (Tennessee-born Popular Singer) |
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| 1913 | Don Hutson (Arkansas-born Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1914 | Jersey Joe Walcott (New Jersey-born African-American Member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame) |
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| 1919 | Jackie Robinson (Georgia-born African-American Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1931 | Ernie Banks (Texas-born African-American Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1947 | Nolan Ryan (Texas-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1496 | Menno Simons (Dutch-born Namesake of the Mennonite Church) |
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| 1606 | Guy Fawkes (Englishman Who Tried to Blow Up Parliament: Namesake of Guy Fawkes Day) |
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| 1780 | Jonathan Carver (Massachusetts-born Explorer of the Mississippi River, Minnesota, Lake Superior) |
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| 1945 | Pvt. Eddie Slovik (Detroit-born World War II Soldier Executed for Desertion) |
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| 1956 | A.A. Milne (English Author the Winnie the Pooh Stories) |
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| John Noyes (Head of the Alaska National Guard; Plane Crash) |
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| 1972 | King Mahendra of Nepal |
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| 1974 | Samuel Goldwyn (Polish-born American Filmmaker: co-Founder of MGM Studios) |
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| 1976 | Ernesto Miranda (Arizona-born Latin-American Namesake of "Miranda Rights") |
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| 2007 | Molly Ivins (California-born Political Humorist) |
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| 1605 | Earthquake and Tsunami Cause 5,000 Deaths in Tokaido, Japan |
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| 1686 | King Louis XIV of France Orders the Burning of all Waldensian Protestant Churches Burned |
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| 1752 | Sister Saint Martha Turpin Is First American-born Roman Catholic Nun |
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| 1779 | Charles Messier Adds M57 (Ring Nebula in Lyra) to His Catalog |
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| 1786 | Shawnee Leaders Sign the Treaty of Fort Finney, Ceding Shawnee Territories in Southern Ohio and Indiana |
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| 1795 | Alexander Hamilton Resigns as Secretary of the Treasury |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: Snowed last night, wind high from the N W. Sawed off the boys toes Sent 5 men down the river to hunt with 2 horses, our interpeter Something better, George Drewyer taken with the Ploursey last evening Bled & gave him Some Sage tea, this morning he is much better— Cold disagreeable Gass: Five hunters went out with two horses. In the morning the wind blew and was cold, toward the middle of the day the weather became moderate, and the afternoon was pleasant. |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: Sent a party of eight men up the river this morning to renew their surch for the Elk and also to hunt; they proceded but a few miles before they found the river so obstructed with ice that they were obliged to return.
Joseph Fields arrived this evening, informed us that he had been hunting in company with Gibson and Willard for the last five days in order to obtain some meat for himself and the other Salt makers, and that he had been discovered that McNeal had the pox, gave him medecine.
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| 1811 | The Delaware General Assembly Divides the State into 24 Election Districts Rather Than Continuing to Vote in County Seats Only |
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| 1827 | Louisiana Law Requires Court Approval Before a Slave May be Emancipated |
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| 1840 | Abraham Lincoln Votes Yea on Bill to Incorporate Springfield, Illinois |
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| 1843 | Arkansas' State Bank Goes into Receivership with a Loss of $1 Million |
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| 1846 | Carroll University Is Chartered in Waukesha, Wisconsin |
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| 1848 | John C. Fremont Is Tried by Court-Martial for Mutiny, Disobeying Orders |
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| 1855 | The Makah Villages Give Up Almost All Tribal Lands on Washington's Olympic Peninsula |
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| 1858 | British Launch the First All-Metal Ship, the Great Eastern, 18,900 Tons |
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| 1859 | The Menger Hotel Opens in San Antonio, Texas |
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| 1861 | In Charleston, Illinois, Lincoln Visits His Stepmother, Relatives and His Father's Grave |
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| Louisiana State Government Seizes Control of the U.S. Mint in New Orleans |
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| Atlanta, Georgia City Council Selects Five Delegates for the Confederate Convention in Montgomery, AL |
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| 1862 | President Lincoln Issues Special War Order No. 1. Directing Army of Potomac to Move by February 22 |
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| President Lincoln Reports to Congress on the Trent Affair |
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| Lincoln Approves Act Authorizing Him to Take Possession of Railroad and Telegraph Lines |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln Corresponds with General Banks About Loyalty Oath Being Required in Louisiana |
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| 1865 | Congress Sends 13th Amendment Abolishing Slavery to States for Ratification |
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| President Lincoln Sends Secretary Seward to Virginia to Meet Informally with Confederate Representatives |
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| Robert E. Lee Is Named General-In-Chief of the Confederate Armies |
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| 1870 | Associate Justice Robert C. Grier Retires from the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1872 | Texas' Governor Is Indicted for Election Fraud |
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| 1874 | Jesse James Gang Robs Train at Gads Hill, Missouri |
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| 1879 | William Tecumseh Sherman Revisits Atlanta, Georgia 15 Years after Ordering It to be Burned |
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| 1881 | Eleazer K. Foster Assumes the Office of Florida's Superintendent of Public Instruction |
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| 1883 | The Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Is Incorporated |
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| 1891 | Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabbler Premieres at the Residenztheater in Munich, Germany |
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| The Tampa Bay Hotel Opens |
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| 1893 | Coca-Cola Trademark Is Registered for "Nutrient or Tonic Beverages" |
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| During a Blizzard, the Temperature Drops 40 Degrees in Five Hours at Park Rapids, Minnesota |
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| 1899 | Bull Town, Texas Changes Its Name to Bovina, Texas |
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| 1906 | 8.8 Earthquake Hits Ecuador |
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| 1912 | 7.0 Earthquake Hits Prince William Sound, Alaska |
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| 1915 | Germans First Use Poison Gas Against Russians |
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| 1917 | Germany Announces Renewal of Unlimited Submarine Warfare in the Atlantic |
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| 1922 | 7.3 Earthquake Hits West of Eureka, California |
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| 1929 | Leon Trotsky Is Expelled from the Soviet Union to Turkey |
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| The Novel Sartoris, by William Faulkner, Is Published by Harcourt Brace |
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| 1930 | World Powers Meet in London to Negotiate an End to the Naval Arms Race |
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| 1933 | Etta Moten Barnett Is the First African American Woman to Perform at the White House |
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| 1938 | 12,000 Pecan Shellers Begin Three-Month Strike in San Antonio, Texas |
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| Stanley Reed Is Sworn In As Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1940 | The First Social Security Check Is Issued to a Vermont Woman for $22.54 |
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| 1941 | Associate Justice James C. McReynolds Retires from the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| Richard Wright Is Awarded the Joel Springarn Medal by the NAACP |
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| 1944 | U.S. Forces Invade the Japanese-held Marshall Islands |
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| 1945 | Private Eddie Slovik Is the Only American Executed for Desertion in WWII |
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| Yugoslavia Adopts USSR-style Constitution with Marshal Tito Official Head of State |
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| 1946 | Georgia's Government Authorizes a Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Warm Springs |
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| 1949 | First Daytime TV Soap Opera, ''These Are My Children,'' Is Broadcast by Chicago's NBC Affiliate |
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| 1950 | President Truman Announces Order to Build the Hydrogen Bomb |
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| 1951 | F-51 Sets New London to New York Speed Record of 8 Hours and 55 Minutes |
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| 1953 | High Winds Sink Car Ferry in the Irish Sea: 130 Die |
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| Hurricane-force Winds Burst Dikes and Flood the Netherlands: 1,800 Die |
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| Hundreds Die Along England's East Coast as Hurricane Force Winds and a High Tide Elevate Sea Levels 8' |
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| 1955 | RCA Demonstrates the First Music Synthesizer |
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| 1956 | General John Noyes, Head of the Alaska National Guard, Dies at Nome as a Result of a Plane Crash |
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| 1958 | The U.S. Launches Its First Satellite: Explorer I |
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| James Gladstone Is Appointed as Canada's First Senator of Native Descent |
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| 1961 | Chimpanzee Survives 16 minute 39 second Mercury 2 Suborbital Mission |
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| David Ben-Gurion Resigns as Prime Minister of Israel |
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| Harris County, Texas Voters Approve $22M Bond for Construction of the Houston Astrodome |
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| 1966 | U.S. President Lyndon Johnson Orders Renewed Bombing of North Vietnamese Targets |
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| USSR Launches Luna 9 for Successful Unmanned Lunar Landing |
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| Louisiana's Centenary College Admits the First African-American Students in School History |
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| 1967 | The Last Section of Interstate 5 Is Completed from Everett to Tacoma, Washington |
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| 1968 | Viet Cong Seize the U.S. Embassy in Saigon for 6 Hours |
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| First Two Days of Tet Offensive Leave 5,000 Dead |
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| U.S. Conducts Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada |
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| 1970 | LSU's "Pistol" Pete Maravich Sets the College Basketball Career Scoring Record |
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| 1971 | Apollo 14 Is Launched for Manned Lunar Landing |
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| 1972 | Nepal's King Birendra Accedes to Throne on Death of His Father King Mahendra |
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| HEOS 2 Launched for International Study of Interplanetary Cosmic Particles. |
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| 1974 | Ray Kroc Buys the San Diego Padres |
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| 1983 | New Law Makes Seat Belts Mandatory in England |
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| 1984 | U.S. Conducts 20 to 150 kT Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada |
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| 1985 | South African President P.W. Botha Offers Nelson Mandela Conditional Release from Prison |
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| 1986 | 5.0 Earthquake Injures 17 People in Ohio |
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| 1988 | Doug Williams Is the First African-American Quarterback to Start in the Super Bowl |
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| 1990 | The First McDonalds Opens in Russia |
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| 1991 | 6.6 Earthquake Kills 200-400 People in Afghanistan |
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| 1992 | U.S. Postal Service Issues Stamp Commemorating W.E.B. DuBois |
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| 1995 | President Bill Clinton Authorizes a $20 Billion Loan to Mexico |
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| 1996 | Truck of Explosives Rams Sri Lanka Central Bank: 86 Die |
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| 1998 | Space Shuttle STS-89 (Endeavour 12) Returns from 9-day MIR Docking Mission |
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| 2000 | Alaska Airlines Flight 261 Crashes in Southern California. All 88 on Board Die |
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| 2001 | Scottish Court Convicted a Libyan Terrorist for the 1988 Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 |
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| Georgia's Governor Signs Law Adopting New State Flag |
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| 2006 | The U.S. Senate Confirms (58-42) Samuel Alito as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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