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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 by Christopher Paul Curtis (according to KidsReads):
DONT DUBY DUB |
Use all of these letters to spell the name (not including middle initial) of an astronaut who was a member of the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger on this date in 1984 (according to NASA):
CARDINAL NORM |
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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 musical written by Eubie Blake (according to the Kennedy Center):
IS EEL |
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 Christopher Paul Curtis
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 Hazel Johnson-Brown  |
 Eubie Blake Born on This Date 1883 [PBS] 
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 Martin Delany
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 Ernie Davis
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Charles Dickens Day
(Observance of the birth date of Charles Dickens: 02/07/1812) |
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Grenada: Independence Day
(Celebration of independence from Great Britain: 02/07/1974) |
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United States: Ballet Day
(Commemorates the first performance of ballet in America at New York's Bowery Theater: 02/07/1827) |
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| 1867 | Laura Ingalls Wilder (Wisconsin-born Children's Author) |
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| 1908 | Fred Gipson (Texas-born Children's Author of Old Yeller) |
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| 1478 | Thomas More (English Philosopher, Author Martyred by King Henry VIII) |
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| 1812 | Charles Dickens (English Author) |
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| 1855 | Charles Siringo (Texas-born Author of the American West) |
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| 1883 | Eric Temple Bell (Scottish Mathematician, Educator, Science Fiction Novelist) |
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| 1885 | Sinclair Lewis (Minnesota-born Author) |
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| 1896 | Jacob Paludan (Danish Novelist, Essayist) |
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| 1914 | David Ignatow (New York City-born Writer, Poet) |
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| 1932 | Gay Talese (New Jersey-born Journalist, Author) |
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| 1936 | John Stone (Mississippi-born Poet, Physician) |
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| 1862 | Bernard Maybeck (New York City-born Architect) |
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| 1862 | Quincy Porter (Connecticut-born Composer) |
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| 1809 | James Galisher (English Meteorologist, Pioneer Balloonist) |
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| 1877 | Godfrey Harold Hardy (English Mathematician) |
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| 1880 | Alfred Adler (Austrian Psychologist) |
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| 1882 | Emma Rochelle Wheeler (Florida-born African-American Physician) |
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| 1894 | John Deere (Vermont-born Inventor of the Modern Steel Plow) |
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| 1918 | Ruth Sager (Chicago-born Geneticist) |
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| 1920 | An Wang (Chinese-American Computer Pioneer) |
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| 1940 | Toshihide Maskawa (Japanes Physicist; 2008 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1840 | Samuel W. Fordyce (Ohio-born Railroad Magnate in Arkansas) |
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| 1935 | Herbert Kohl (U.S. Senator From Wisconsin) |
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| 1883 | Eubie Blake (Maryland-born African-American Jazz Pianist, Composer) |
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| 1945 | Pete Postlethwaite (English Actor) |
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| 1960 | James Spader Massachusetts-born Actor) |
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| 1962 | Garth Brooks (Oklahoma-born Country & Western Singer) |
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| 1966 | Chris Rock (South Carolina-born African-American Comedic Actor) |
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| 1905 | Wally Butts (Georgia-born Coach, Member of the College Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1937 | Juan Pizarro (Puerto Rican-born Professional Baseball Player) |
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| 1950 | Burt Hooten (Texas-born Professional Baseball Player) |
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| 1953 | Dan Quisenberry (California-born Professional Baseball Player) |
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| 1955 | Rolf Benirschke (Massachusetts-born Professional Football Player) |
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| 1973 | Juwan Howard (Chicago-born African-American Professional Basketball Player) |
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| 1826 | Thomas Todd (Virginia-born Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1938 | Harvey Firestone (Ohio-born Founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber) |
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| 1954 | Maxwell Bodenheim (Mississippi-born Writer, Poet: Murdered) |
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| 1959 | Napoleon Lajoie (Rhode Island-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1976 | Cecil E. Newman (Minnesota Publisher of Two African-American Newspapers) ) |
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| 1979 | Gwen Sawyer Cherry (First African-American Woman to Serve in the Florida Legislature) |
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| Josef Mengele (Nazi Physician: "Angel of Death") |
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| 1993 | Lillian Gish (Ohio-born Actress) |
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| 1999 | King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan |
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| 2000 | Doug Henning (Canadian Magician) |
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| 2001 | Anne Morrow Lindbergh (New Jersey-born Aviator, Writer: Wife of Charles Lindbergh) |
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| 2002 | Arni Cohen (Indiana-born Small Business Owner) |
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| 1528 | The Swiss Canton of Bern Initiates the Reformation By Officially Embraced Protestantism |
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| 1706 | In New Mexico, the Villa San Francisco de Alburquerque Is Founded by Governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdes and 12 Families |
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| 1775 | In London, Benjamin Franklin Publishes "An Imaginary Speech" in Defense of American Courage |
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| 1792 | Austria's Hapsburg Monarchy Forms an Alliance with Prussia Against the French |
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| 1795 | 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Is Ratified Limiting Federal Judiciary Powers |
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| 1805 |
 Lewis: This morning was fair Thermometer at 18° above naught much warmer than it has been for some days; wind S. E. continue to be visited by the natives. The Sergt. of the guard reported that the Indian women (wives to our interpreters) were in the habit of unbaring the fort gate at any time of night and admitting their Indian visitors, I therefore directed a lock to be put to the gate and ordered that no Indian but those attatched to the garrison should be permitted to remain all night within the fort or admitted during the period which the gate had been previously ordered to be kept shut which was from sunset untill sunrise.— Ordway: pleasant & warm. the Savages continue comming to See us and to get blacksmiths work done &.C.— |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: This evening Sergt. Ordway and Wiser returned with a part of the meat which R. Fields had killed; the ballance of the party with Sergt. Gass remained in order to bring the ballance of the meat to the river at a point agreed on where the canoe is to meet them again tomorrow morning. This evening we had what I call an excellent supper it consisted of a marrowbone a piece and a brisket of boiled Elk that had the appearance of a little fat on it. this for Fort Clatsop is living in high stile. In this neighbourhood I observe the honeysuckle common in our country I first met with it on the waters of the Kooskooske near the Chopunnish nation, and again below the grand rappids In the Columbian Valley on tidewater. The Elder also common to our country grows in great abundance in the rich woodlands on this side of the rocky Mountains; tho' it differs Here in the colour of it's berry, this being of a pale sky blue while that of the U' States is a deep perple. The small pox has distroyed a great number of the natives in this quarter. it prevailed about 4 years since among the Clatsops and distroy several hundred of them, four of their chiefs fell victyms to it's ravages. those Clatsops are deposited in their canoes on the bay a few miles below us. I think the late ravages of the small pox may well account for the number of remains of vilages which we find deserted on the river and Sea coast in this quarter.—
Gass: The morning was fair, and all hands engaged in bringing in the meat; we got some to the fort; but myself and part of the men had again to encamp out. It rained hard and we had a disagreeable night |
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| 1806 | U.S. Senate Approves Secret Appropriation of $2M for the Possible Purchase of Florida |
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| 1809 | The Ohio Legislature Authorizes the Creation of Huron County |
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| 1812 | 7.9 Magnitude Earthquake Destroys Town of New Madrid: Largest in Missouri's Recorded History |
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| 1818 | Alabama's Bibb and Shelby Counties Are Created |
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| 1820 | Arkansas' First Elected General Assembly Convenes for the First Time |
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| 1822 | The Delaware House Fails to Abolish Slavery by a Vote of 11-6 |
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| 1831 | Belgium Adopts Its Constitution |
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| 1836 | Charles Dickens Publishes Sketches by Boz |
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| 1841 | Settlers of Oregon's Willamette Valley Meet At Champoeg, Selecting Reverend Jason Lee as Chairman |
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| 1842 | President Tyler's Daughter, Elizabeth, Is Married in the White House |
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| 1844 | Ralph Waldo Emerson Delivers Lecture Entitled "The Young American," in Boston, Massachusetts |
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| 1850 | Indiana's Sullivan County Courthouse Is Razed by Fire |
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| 1851 | Minnesota's Territorial Legislature Votes to Make St. Paul Its Capital |
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| 1853 | Seguin, Texas Is Incorporated |
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| 1861 | Abraham Lincoln Declines Invitation to Visit Massachusetts on Way to Washington, D.C. |
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| Abraham Lincoln Accepts Invitation to Visit Columbus, Ohio on Way to Washington, D.C. |
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| 1862 | Confederates Order 15,000 Reinforcements for Tennessee's Fort Donelson |
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| President Lincoln Spends Most of His Day with His Son, Willie, Critically Ill with Typhoid Fever |
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| President Lincoln Borrows Emerson's "Representative Men" from Library of Congress |
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| 1864 | Union Troops Occupy Jacksonville, Florida |
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| U.S.S. Norwich Sinks the Confederate Steamer St. Mary's Near Jacksonville |
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| 1865 | President Lincoln Writes Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison |
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| 1870 | Supreme Court Rules Legal Tender Acts Unconstitutional |
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| 1882 | John L. Sullivan Knocks Out Paddy Ryan in the Last Major Bare-knuckle Championship Bout |
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| 1886 | White Mob Tries to Force All Chinese Out of Seattle, Washington |
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| Discovery of Gold on South Africa's Witwatersrand Leads to the Birth of Johannesburg |
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| 1893 | In Alaska, Fire Destroys 24 Homes at Metlakatla, Founded Six Years Earlier by Tsimshean Indians Who Migrated from Canada |
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| 1898 | Émile Zola Tried for Libel for Criticism of the French Government |
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| 1901 | The British Send 30,000 New Troops to South Africa to Reinforce the Anglo-Boer War |
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| Anton Chekov's Play, "Three Sisters," Debuts in Moscow |
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| 1904 | Fire Destroys More Than 1,500 Buildings in Baltimore |
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| 1911 | Seattle Residents Recall Their Mayor Because of His Permissive Attitude Toward Gambling |
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| 1913 | Mine Guards and Owners Attack a Miners' Tent Colony at Holly Grove, West Virginia |
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| 1915 | First Radio Messages from a Moving Train Are Transmitted to a Station in Binghamton, New York |
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| 1926 | The First National Negro Week Is Initiated by Carter Woodson |
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| 1933 | The Iowa Legislature Passes a Bill Temporarily Ending Mortgage Payments |
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| 1936 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt Authorizes a Flag for the Office of the Vice President |
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| 1938 | Disney Begins a Daily Comic Strip with Donald Duck |
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| 1940 | Walt Disney's Pinocchio Premieres in New York City |
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| 1942 | All U.S. Passenger Car Production Replaced by War Production |
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| 1944 | Germans Launch Counter-offensive at Anzio, Italy |
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| Bing Crosby Records: "Swinging on a Star" |
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| 1945 | FDR, Churchill and Stalin Continue Black Sea Conference in Yalta |
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| 1948 | Omar Bradley Succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as U.S. Army Chief of Staff |
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| 1949 | Joe DiMaggio is First Athlete to be Paid $100,000/year |
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| 1958 | The Dodgers Officially Become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc. |
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| 1961 | 23-year-old Jane Fonda Appears in Her First Acting Role: The NBC Drama, "A String of Beads" |
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| 1962 | Kennedy Extends U.S. Trade Ban with Cuba |
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| 1964 | The Beatles Are Mobbed as They Arrive in the U.S. for First Time |
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| 1966 | President Johnson Meets with South Vietnamese Leaders in Hawaii |
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| 1969 | South Africa's Prime Minster Vorster Announces Whites Will Be Given Homesteading Contracts |
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| Diane Crump Becomes the First Female Jockey in Thoroughbred Racing at Florida's Hialeah Track |
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| 1970 | At the University of Delaware, Members of the Black Student Union Call for the Appointment of an Afro-American Studies Professor |
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| 1971 | Swiss Women Are Granted the Right To Vote |
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| 1974 | Grenada Gains Independence from Great Britain |
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| British Prime Minister, Edward Heath, Calls for a General Election |
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| Symbionese Liberation Army Kidnaps 19-year-old Newspaper Heiress Patty Hearst |
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| Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles Opens in Theaters |
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| 1976 | Speedskater Sheila Young Is First American to Win Three Winter Olympic Medals |
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| 1977 | Soviet Soyuz 24 Launched for 17-day Docking Mission with Salyut 5 |
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| 1978 | Blizzard Drops 2-4' of Snow on Areas of Massachusetts in 32 Hours |
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| 1979 | Neptune Becomes Farthest Planet from the Sun for Next 20 Years |
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| 1984 | Bruce McCandless Is First Human Satellite Maneuvering Untethered from Space Shuttle Challenger |
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| 1986 | President Jean-Claude Duvalier Flees Haiti for France |
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| 1987 | South Koreans Protest Death of Student Wile in Police Custody |
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| 1988 | The Television Series "America's Most Wanted" Debuts |
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| 1990 | Russian Communist Party Gives Up Its One Party Dominance |
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| 1991 | Jean-Bertrand Aristide Is Sworn In as Haiti's First Democratically-elected President |
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| 1992 | Treaty of Maastricht Establishes the European Union |
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| 1995 | Ramzi Yousef, Mastermind of 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, Is Arrested in Pakistan |
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| 2000 | Some of the Biggest Websites on the Internet Are Shutdown by a "Denial of Service" Attack |
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| Tiger Woods Wins 6th Consecutive Professional Tournament with Amazing Comeback at Pebble Beach |
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| 2001 | Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-98) Is Launched to Install Space Station's Destiny Laboratory |
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| 2003 | Governors Island National Monument Established by Presidential Proclamation |
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| 2008 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-122) Carrying the Columbus Research Laboratory to the International Space Station |
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