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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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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 name of a country where this date is celebrated as a holiday:
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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 James Baldwin (according to the University of Illinois-Chicago):
MIX FIRN TEE TEETH |
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 James Baldwin
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 Mae Jemison
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 Louis Armstrong
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 Rosa Parks Born on This Date 1913
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 Roy Campanella
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World Health Organization: World Cancer Day
(Annual observance on this date marking the anniversary of the first World Summit Against Cancer held in Paris on 4 February 2000) |
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Create a Vacuum Day
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Angola: Inicio de Luta Armada (Commencement of the Armed Struggle)
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Sri Lanka: National or Independence Day
(Celebration of freedom from British rule: 02/04/1948) |
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| 1925 | Russell Hoban (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author) |
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| 1930 | Barbara Shook Hazen (Ohio-born Children's Author) |
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| 1688 | Pierre Marivaux (French Dramatist) |
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| 1790 | John Bachman (New York-born Clergyman, Naturalist, Author) |
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| 1883 | E.J. (Ned) Pratt (Canadian Poet) |
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| 1900 | Jacques Prevert (French Poet, Filmmaker, Songwriter) |
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| 1904 | MacKinlay Kantor (Iowa-born Novelist) |
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| 1932 | Robert Coover (Iowa-born Novelist, Short-Story Writer) |
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| 1881 | Fernand Leger (French Painter) |
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| 1954 | Vincent Baloyi (South African Artist) |
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| 1893 | Bernard Rogers (New York City-born Composer) |
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| 1803 | William T. Boutwell (New Hampshire-born Missionary to the Ojibwe Indians Who Confirmed Minnesota's Lake Itasca as the Source of the Mississippi River) |
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| 1902 | Charles Lindbergh (Michigan-born Aviator; First Person to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic Ocean) |
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| 1841 | Clement Ader (French Engineer, Pioneer of Flight) |
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| 1875 | Ludwig Prandtl (German Physicist, "Father of Aerodynamics") |
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| 1877 | Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (Maine-born Radio Communications Pioneer Who Invented the Crystal Detector) |
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| 1893 | Raymond Dart (Australian-born South African Physical Anthropologist) |
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| 1906 | Clyde Tombaugh (Illinois-born Astronomer Who Discovered Pluto) |
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| 1943 | Kenneth Thompson (New Orleans-born Computer Scientist Who co-Developed UNIX) |
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| 1802 | Mark Hopkins (Massachusetts-born President of Williams College) |
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| 1883 | George Kennedy Bell (English Anglican Bishop of Chichester) |
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| 1906 | Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German Protestant Theologian) |
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| 1844 | Owen A. Wells (New York-born Member U.S. Congress From Wisconsin) |
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| 1865 | Lila (Meade) Valentine (Virginia Champion of Women's Suffrage, Health and Education Reform) |
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| 1913 | Rosa Parks (Alabama-born African-American Civil Rights Leader) |
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| 1921 | Betty Friedan (Illinois-born Writer, Feminist, Women's Rights Activist) |
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| 1947 | Dan Quayle (Indiana-born U.S. Senator; Vice-President of the United States) |
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Sanford Bishop (Alabama-born African-American Member of the U.S. Congress from Georgia) |
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| 1989 | Nkosi Johnson (South African AIDS Advocate, Victim) |
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| 1851 | Ella Sheppard Moore (Tennessee-born African-American Pianist, Vocalist, Music Director) |
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| 1879 | Jacques Copeau (French Actor, Critic, Director) |
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| 1914 | Ida Lupino (English Actress) |
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| 1920 | Norman Wisdom (English Comedic Actor) |
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| 1948 | Alice Cooper (Detroit-born Popular Musician) |
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| 1962 | Clint Black (New Jersey-born Country Musician) |
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| 1912 | Byron Nelson (Texas-born Member of the World Golf Hall of Fame) |
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| 1913 | Woody Hayes (Ohio-born Member of the College Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1959 | Lawrence Taylor (Virginia-born African-American Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1973 | Oscar de la Hoya (California-born Latin-American Boxer) |
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| 211 | Lucius Septimus Severus (Roman Emperor) |
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| 1894 | Antoine J "Adolphe" Sax (Belgian Inventor of the Saxophone) |
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| 1911 | Stephen Benton Elkins (Ohio-born United States Senator From West Virginia) |
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| 1928 | Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (Dutch Mathematician) |
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| 1962 | Fritz Kreisler (Austrian Composer, Violinist) |
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| 1968 | Alfredo Gonzalez (Texas-born Marine Sergeant Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor |
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| 1974 | Abram Onkgopotse Tiro (South African Student Rights Activist Killed in Botswana) |
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| 1983 | Karen Carpenter (Connecticut-born Popular Singer) |
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| 1987 | Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (Welsh Broadcaster, Journalist, War Correspondent, Royal Commentator) |
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| Liberace (Hungarian-American Popular Classical Pianist) |
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| 2005 | Ossie Davis (Georgia-born African-American Actor, Civil Rights Activist) |
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| Max Schmeling (German Member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame) |
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| 2006 | Betty Friedan (Illinois-born Women's Rights Activist) |
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| 1783 | Britain Declares a Formal Cessation of Hostilities with Its Former Colonies, the United States of America |
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| The First of Six Earthquakes Occurs Near Calabria, Italy That Will Be Responsible for 50,000 Deaths Over a 2-month Period |
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| 1789 | Electors Unanimously Choose George Washington to be the First President of the United States |
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| 1794 | French Convention Abolishes Slavery in the Colonies (Napoleon Will Revive Slavery in 1802) |
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| 1797 | Thousands Die as an Earthquake Levels the Ecuadorian Town of Riobamba |
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| 1801 | John Marshall Is Sworn in As Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1805 |
 Lewis: This morning fair tho' could the thermometer stood at 18° below Naught, wind from N. W. Capt. Clark set out with a hunting party consisting of sixteen of our command and two frenchmen who together with two others, have established a small hut and resided this winter within the vicinity of Fort Mandane under our protection. visited by many of the natives today.
our stock of meat which we had procured in the Months of November & December is now nearly exhausted; a supply of this articles is at this moment peculiarly interesting as well for our immediate consumption, as that we may have time before the approach of the warm season to prepare the meat for our voyage in the spring of the year. Capt. Clark therefore deturmined to continue
Gass [with the hunting party]:
A fine day. Captain Clarke and 18 more went |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: Sergt. Pryor with a party of five men set out again in quest of the Elk which Drewyer had killed. Drewyer and La Page also returned to continue the chase in the same quarter. the Elk are in much better order in the point near the praries than they are in the woody country arround us or up the Netul. in the praries they feed on grass and rushes, considerable quantities of which are yet green and succulet. in the woody country their food is huckle berry bushes, fern, and an evergreen shrub which resembles the lorel in the some measure; the last constitutes the greater part of their food and grows abundantly through all the timbered country, particularly the hillsides and more broken parts of it. There are sveral species of fir in this neighbourhood which I shall discribe as well as my slender botanicall skil will enable me and for the convenience of comparison with each other shal number them. a species which grows to immence size; very commonly 27 feet in the girth six feet above the surface of the earth, and in several instances we have found them as much as 36 feet in the girth or 12 feet diameter perfectly solid and entire. they frequently rise to the hight of 230 feet, and one hundred and twenty or 30 of that hight without a limb. this timber is white and soft throughout the rives better than any other species which we have tryed. the bark skales off in irregula rounded flakes and is of a redish brown colour particularly of the younger growth. the stem of this tree is simple branching, ascending, not very defuse, and proliferous. the leaf of this tree is acerose, 1/10th of an Inh in width, and ¾ of an Inch in length; is firm, stif and accuminate; they are triangular, a little declining, thickly scattered on all sides of the bough, but rispect the three uppersides only and are also sessile growing from little triangular pedestals of soft spungy elastic bark. at the junction of the boughs, the bud-scales continue to incircle their rispective twigs for several yeas; at least three years is common and I have counted as many as the growth of four years beyond these scales. this tree affords but little rosin. it's cone I have not yet had an opportunity to discover altho' I have sought it frequently; the trees of this kind which we have felled have had no cones on them.—
Gass: This was a fine clear morning. Last night the men, who had gone to carry the meat to the salt works returned, and brought us a bushel of salt. This day continued throughout clear and pleasant; and the 5th was a clear cool day. One of our hunters came in, who had killed 6 elk. |
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| 1814 | In Wilmington, Delaware, a Dinner Is Given in Honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry on His Way from Philadelphia to Baltimore |
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| 1826 | James Fennimore Cooper Publishes The Last of the Mohicans |
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| 1829 | The Mexican Government Changes the Name of La Bahía to Villa de Goliad |
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| 1832 | Columbia County, the State's 16th County, Is Created by the Florida Legislature |
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| 1836 | Dade County, the State's 19th County, Is Created and Named in Honor of Major Francis Dade Killed This Day in a Seminole Indian Ambush |
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| Major Francis Langhorne Dade and 106 Men Perish in a Seminole Indian Ambush Near Present-Day Bushnell, Florida |
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| 1839 | The Durham Report for Unification of Upper & Lower Canada Is Presented to the Colonial Office |
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| 1841 | The Bank of the United States Is Shut Down |
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| The Republic of Texas Authorizes Ill-Fated Peters Colony |
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| 1846 | Henry David Thoreau Delivers a Lecture to the Concord Lyceum |
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| 1851 | The Oregon Territorial Legislature Forms Pacific County in Present-Day Washington |
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| 1861 | President-elect Abraham Lincoln Accepts an Invitation to Pass Through New York en Route to Washington, D.C. for His Inauguration |
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| In Montgomery, Alabama, Delegates from Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana Convene the Congress of the Confederate States of America |
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| Indian Chief Cochise Escapes Capture at Apache Pass |
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| 1863 | A Crew for the U.S.S. Sagamore Captures the Confederate Schooner Pride Near Florida's Indian River Narrows |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln Sends a Copy of the Manuscript of His Remarks at Gettysburg to Edward Everett |
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| The Governor of Michigan Signs a Resolution Expressing Support for President Lincoln's Reelection, the Constitution and the Union |
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| A Boat from the Federal Schooner, Beauregard, Captures the Confederate Boat Lydia at Florida's Jupiter Inlet |
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| Wilmington, Delaware's First Horse-Drawn Streetcar Service Is Incorporated |
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| 1869 | Grant County, Arkansas Is Created |
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| 1871 | The Wisconsin Central Railroad Is Formally Organized in Menasha |
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| 1876 | Harrison, Arkansas Is Incorporated |
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| 1887 | U.S. Congress Creates the Interstate Commerce Commission to Oversee the Railroad Industry |
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| 1890 | In Oregon, the Willamette River Floods Portland's Front and First Streets |
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| 1901 | Giacomo Puccini's Opera Tosca Makes Its U.S. Debut with the New York Metropolitan Opera |
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| 1905 | A Tornado Hits Hoix, Arkansas |
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| 1906 | The Sunday Times Appears as South Africa's First Sunday Newspaper |
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| 1915 | Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm Proclaims the North Sea a War Zone |
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| 1922 | Ford Motor Company Acquires Lincoln Motors for $8M |
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| 1924 | Jazz Greats Louis Armstrong and Lil Hardin Are Married |
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| 1926 | In Wales, England's Malcolm Campbell Sets a New World Land Speed Record of 174 mph |
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| 1928 | Austrian National Socialists Protest the Presence of African-American Actress Josephine Baker on the Vienna Stage |
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| 1931 | Malcolm Campbell Sets a Ground Speed Record of 245 mph at Daytona Beach, Florida |
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| 1932 | Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt Opens the Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid, New York |
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| 1938 | Adolph Hitler Seizes Control of the German Army |
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| Thornton Wilder's Our Town Opens on Broadway |
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| 1939 | In South Africa, the "Ossewabrandwag" Afrikaans Nationalist Organisation Is Founded in Bloemfontein |
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| 1941 | The United Service Organizations (The USO) Is Incorporated in New York State |
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| The Alaska Defense Command Is Established with General Simon Buckner As Its Commanding Officer |
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| Roy Plunkett, a Chemist for Du Pont, Is Granted a Patent for Tetrafluoro-Ethylene Polymers" (TEFLON) |
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| 1945 | President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill & Joseph Stalin Begin a 7-day Conference in Yalta |
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| 1948 | Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Becomes an Independent Dominion within the British Commonwealth |
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| North Korean National Defense Bureau Is Established |
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| 1952 | The Citizens League Is Formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Involve Residents in Providing Solutions for Local Issues and Policies |
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| 1960 | San Francisco Giants Officially Move into Their Offices at Candlestick Park |
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| 1961 | USSR Launches Sputnik IV with a 7.1-ton Payload |
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| John Huston's The Misfits Is Released by United Artists |
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| 1962 | All Five Naked-Eye Planets, the Sun and Moon Align within a Circle 17° in Diameter |
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| The First U.S. Helicopter Is Shot Down in Vietnam |
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| 1964 | U.S. Enacts 24th Amendment Banning Poll Tax |
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| 1965 | U.S. Conducts Underground Nuclear Test (Code Name Cashmere) in Nevada |
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| 8.7 Magnitude Earthquake Near Alaska's Rat Island Generates a Tsunami with 30-35' Waves |
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| Malcolm X Makes His First Speech in Favor of Civil Rights in Selma, Alabama |
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| 1967 | Nova Scotia Censors the Film Version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
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| 1969 | With Yasir Arafat As Its Leader, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Is Founded |
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| 1970 | U.S. Conducts 20-200 kt Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada |
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| 1971 | British Auto Maker Rolls Royce Declares Bankruptcy |
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| 1972 | 4.5 Magnitude Earthquake Causes Panic Along Italy's Adriatic Coast, Causing Thousands to Flee to the Countryside |
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| 1974 | Mail Bomb Kills South African Student Rights Activist Abram Onkgopotse Tiro in Botswana |
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| A Bomb Explodes Aboard a Bus Carrying British Soldiers and Their Families, Killing 12 |
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| In Berkeley, California, the Symbionese Liberation Army Abducts Patricia Hearst, 19-year-old Granddaughter of Publishing Billionaire William Randolph Hearst |
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| 1975 | 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Causes 10,000 Deaths in China's Yingkou-Haicheng Area |
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| 1976 | A Magnitude 7.5 Earthquake Kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras |
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| President Samora Machel of Mozambique Issues a Decree Ending Private Property Ownership |
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| 1986 | U.S. Postal Service Issues a Stamp Honoring Sojourner Truth |
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| 1987 | Congress Overrides President Reagan's Veto of Clean Water Act |
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| 1993 | Boston Celtics Retire Larry Bird's Number 33 |
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| 1995 | ODERACS-2A Is 1 of 6 Spheres Deployed from Space Shuttle STS-63 for the Calibration of Radars and Telescopes Tracking Orbital Debris |
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| 1997 | 6.5 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 88 People and Injures 2,000, While Destroying 5,500 Houses in the Bojnurd-Shirvan Area in Northeast Iran |
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| 1998 | A Magnitude 6.1 Earthquake Kills 5,000 People in Northeastern Afghanistan |
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| 2000 | A Coalition Government That Includes Joerg Haider's Far-Right Freedom Party Comes to Power in Austria |
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| 2003 | Yugoslavia Is Formally Dissolved and Replaced with a Loose Union of Its Remaining Two Republics, Serbia and Montenegro |
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| 2004 | The Massachusetts High Court Legalizes Gay Marriage |
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| 2007 | Tony Dungy (Colts) and Lovie Smith (Bears) Are the First Two African Americans to Coach Teams in the Super Bowl: Colts 29 Bears 17 |
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