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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 name of a performing artist born on this date:
A BAR IS WARBLE |
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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 Alice Walker (according to PBS):
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 Alice Walker Born on This Date 1944  |
 Percy L. Julian
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 Lovie Austin
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 Daisy Bates
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 Art Shell
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Lebanon: St. Maron's Day
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| 1908 | Hilda Van Stockum (Dutch Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1927 | Dick Gackenbach (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1945 | Stephen Roos (New York City-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1868 | Lucian Lamar Knight (Georgia-born Historian) |
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| 1874 | Amy Lowell (Massachusetts-born Poet) |
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| 1899 | George Ade (Indiana-born Humorist) |
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| 1923 | Brendan Behan (Irish Playwright, Memoirist) |
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| 1928 | Roger Mudd (Washington, D.C.-born Broadcast Journalist) |
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| 1930 | Carl Bain (Mississippi-born Educator) |
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| 1940 | J.M. Coetzee (South African 2003 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1944 | Alice Walker (Georgia-born African-American Awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "The Color Purple") |
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| 1949 | Robert Hedin (Minnesota-born Poet) |
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| 1731 | Gasparo Angiolini (Italian Composer) |
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| 1820 | Peter M. Gideon (Ohio-born Horticulturist Who Specialized in Developing Hardy Varieties of Apples) |
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| 1883 | Garnet Carter (Tennessee-born Inventor of Miniature Golf) |
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| 1910 | Jacques Monod (French 1965 Nobel Laureate for Medicine and Physiology) |
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| 1773 | William Henry Harrison (Virginia-born 9th President of the United States of America) |
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| 1752 | George Handley (English-born Governor of Georgia) |
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| 1814 | Sam Tilden (Governor of New York, 1876 Democratic Presidential Candidate) |
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| 1902 | Juanita Shanks Craft (Texas-born African-American Civil Rights Activist) |
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| 1909 | Dean Rusk (Georgia-born Statesman, U.S. Secretary of State) |
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| 1957 | Mohammed Valli Moosa (South African Environmental and Human Rights Activist) |
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| 1891 | Ronald Colman (English Actor) |
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| 1914 | Gypsy Rose Lee (Washington-born Vaudeville Performer) |
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| Carmen Miranda (Portuguese-American Actress) |
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| 1942 | Carole King (New York City-born Popular Singer, Songwriter) |
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| 1943 | Barbara Lewis (Michigan-born African-American Popular Singer) |
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| Joe Pesci (New Jersey-born Actor) |
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| 1945 | Mia Farrow (Los Angeles-born Actress) |
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| 1963 | Whitney Houston (New Jersey-born Grammy Award-Winning African-American Popular Singer) |
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| Travis Tritt (Georgia-born Country Musician) |
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| 1914 | Bill Veeck (Chicago-born Baseball Owner, Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1811 | Nevil Maskelyne (England's Astronomer Royal for 46 Years) |
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| 1819 | John Milledge (Governor of Georgia) |
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| 1865 | James Melville Gilliss (Washington, D.C.-born Founder of the U.S. Naval Observatory) |
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| 1881 | Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian Novelist, Journalist, Short Story Writer) |
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| 1906 | Paul Laurence Dunbar (Ohio-born African-American Poet) |
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| 1939 | Herschel Evans (Texas-born African-American Jazz Saxophonist) |
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| 1981 | Bill Haley (Michigan-born Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) |
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| 1984 | Yuri Andropov (Russian-born President of the Soviet Union: 1982-84) |
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| 1995 | J. William Fulbright (Missouri Congressman: Founder of the Fulbright Scholarship Fund)) |
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| 2002 | Princess Margaret of England |
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| 1631 | Religious Leader Roger Williams (Founder of Rhode Island) Arrives in America |
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| 1720 | Edmund Halley Is Appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England |
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| 1733 | Georgia's First Settlers Begin Building the First Houses in Savannah |
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| 1793 | Congress Authorizes the Use of Foreign Coins as Legal Tender in the United States |
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| 1796 | The Delaware Legislature Dedicates Revenues From Marriage and Tavern Licenses to the Establishment of Public Schools |
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| 1805 |
 Lewis: The morning fair and pleasent, wind from S. E.— visted by Mr. McKinzey one the N. W. Company's clerks. this evening a man by the name of Howard whom I had given permission to go the Mandane vilage returned after the gate was shut and rether than call to the guard to have it opened scaled the works an indian who was looking on shortly after followed his example. I convinced the Indian of the impropryety of his conduct, and explained to him the riske he had run of being severely treated, the fellow appeared much allarmed, I gave him a small piece of tobacco and sent him away Howard I had comitted to the care of the guard with a determineation to have him tryed by a Courtmartial for this offence. this man is an old soldier which still hightens this offince Ordway: Some cloudy, the water which run over the Ice in the River has froze Smoth. the Squaws from the 1stvillage are cutting their lodge timber on the opposite Side of the River from the Fort, So as to hale it up to the village on the Ice.— |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: This morning Collins and Wiser set out on a hunting excurtion; the[y] took our Indian canoe and passed the Netul a little above us. in the evening Drewyer returned; had killed nothing but one beaver. he saw one black bear, which is the only one which has been seen in this neighbourhood since our arrival; the Indians inform us that they are abundant but are now in their holes.
Gass: We had a fine morning; but in the course of the day we had sometimes sunshine, and sometimes showers of rain. One of our hunters caught a beaver |
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| 1811 | Robert Fulton Is Granted a Patent for the Practical Steamboat |
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| 1818 | Dallas County, Alabama Is Created |
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| 1825 | U.S. House of Representatives Elects John Quincy Adams President |
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| 1831 | Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island Is Razed by Fire and 150 Troops Must Cross the Ice-Filled Delaware River to Safety |
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| 1837 | Seminole Indians Attack Company K of the 4th U.S. Infantry Near Clear River, Florida, Killing One Officer |
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| German Explorer and Writer, Frederick Gerstaecker, Arrives in Little Rock, Arkansas |
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| 1848 | Lincoln Endorses Zachary Taylor's Candidacy for President |
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| 1849 | Constitutional Assembly Abolishes the Temporal Power of the Pope and Proclaims Rome a Republic |
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| In Wisconsin, the Oshkosh True Democrat Begins Publication as the City's First Newspaper |
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| 1853 | U.S. Congress Grants Arkansas Lands for Railroads from Cairo to Texas with Branches to Fort Smith and the Mississippi River |
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| 1854 | Georgia's Governor Signs Legislation Creating Coffee County as Georgia's 108th County |
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| 1857 | Lincoln Explains Why His Newspaper Delivery Has Been Canceled |
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| 1861 | Congress of the Confederacy Elects Jefferson Davis President |
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| The Steamer Everglade Delivers 1,500 Muskets to Fernandina, Florida from the Charleston Arsenal |
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| Tennessee Votes Against Secession |
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| Abraham Lincoln Receives a Gift of Suit of Clothes to be Worn at His Inauguration |
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| 1863 | Pensacola and Georgia Railroad Opens a Florida Line Between Quincy and Tallahassee |
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| 1864 | 109 Union Officers Escape from Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, Crawling through a 53' Tunnel |
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| Troops from Union's 97th Pennsylvania Capture Small Confederate Force in Florida Swamp Near Fernandina |
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| Union Troops Occupy Baldwin, Florida, Capturing Cotton, Artillery, Railroad Cars and Food |
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| Confederate Soldiers Flee Union Troops Advancing 30 Miles West of Jacksonville, Florida |
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| President Lincoln Sits for a Matthew Brady Photograph That Will Used for the $5 Bill |
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| Union General George Armstrong Custer Marries Elizabeth Bacon in Monroe, MI |
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| 1870 | President Grant Signs Legislation Creating a U.S. Weather Bureau |
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| 1875 | First Train Passes through the Hoosac Tunnel Connecting New York and Massachusetts |
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| 1880 | The First Train Arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1895 | William G. Morgan Invents the Game of Volleyball at the Holyoke, Massachusetts YMCA |
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| University of Minnesota's School of Agriculture Defeats Hamline University 9 to 3 in the First Intercollegiate Basketball Game |
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| 1899 | Leech Lake, Minnesota Records a Temperature of -59° F |
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| 1900 | The Davis Cup for Tennis Is First Put Up for Competition |
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| 1901 | Tennessee and Virginia Settle Longstanding Boundary Dispute |
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| 1903 | Houston County Is the Last County to be Created in Alabama |
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| 1909 | The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Is Incorporated |
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| 1915 | Orlando, Florida Inaugurates Its Subtropical Mid-Winter Fair with Parade of Floats |
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| 1918 | Ukraine Signs Peace Treaty with Central Powers |
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| 1922 | Congress Establishes the World War Foreign Debt Commission |
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| 1923 | Dobrolet, the Soviet State Airline, Is Formed (Renamed Aeroflot in 1932) |
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| 1926 | Atlanta Board of Education Votes to Prohibit Teaching Evolution in City Public Schools |
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| 1929 | Russia, Poland, Romania, Estonia, Latvia Sign Litvinov Protocol Renouncing War |
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| 1931 | The Novel Sanctuary, by William Faulkner, Is Published |
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| 1934 | Romania, Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey Sign Balkan Peace Pact |
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| 1941 | Book of the Month Club Selects Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls Outstanding Book of 1940 |
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| 1942 | The First Meeting of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Is Held |
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| U.S. Clocks First Go Forward One Hour for Daylight-savings ''War Time'' |
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| Fire Destroys French Cruise Liner Normandie While Being Converted for War |
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| First Congressional Medal of Honor of World War II Awarded Posthumously to Sandy Nittinger of Fort Lauderdale, FL |
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| 1943 | The Japanese Abandon Guadalcanal |
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| 1950 | In Wheeling, West Virginia, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Charges State Department Is Riddled with Communists |
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| Element #98, Californium (Cf), Discovered by Research Team at UC Berkeley |
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| 1953 | Ralph Ellison Receives the National Book Award for The Invisible Man |
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| 1955 | South African Newspaper, The Star, Condemns Forced Removal of Blacks from Central Johannesburg |
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| 1963 | The First Boeing 727 Trijet Lifts Off from Seattle |
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| 1964 | The Beatles Make Their First Appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" |
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| 1965 | U.S. Sends First Combat Troops to South Vietnam |
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| 1967 | 6.75 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 98 in Colombia |
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| Florida Begins a Record 768 Consecutive Days of Sunshine |
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| 1971 | Apollo 14 Returns to Earth After Third Manned Moon Landing |
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| 6.7 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 65 in San Fernando, California |
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| New Negro Leagues Committee Nominates Satchel Paige for Baseball's Hall of Fame |
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| 1972 | USS Constellation Arrives off the Coast of Vietnam |
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| British Government Declares a State of Emergency Over Miners' Strike |
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| 1973 | Florida Receives Its First Measurable Snowfall in 15 Years |
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| 1976 | Special Negro Leagues Committee Selects Oscar Charleston for Baseball's Hall of Fame |
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| 1977 | Spain Establishes Diplomatic Relations with the Soviet Union |
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| 1978 | NASA Launches FLTSATCOM-1 Naval Communications Satellite |
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| 1983 | 1981 English Derby Winner Racehorse Shergar Stolen from Stable in Ireland |
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| 1989 | President Bush Submits to Congress $1.16 Trillion Budget with $91.1 B Deficit |
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| 1991 | Lithuanians Vote Overwhelmingly for Independence from the Soviet Union |
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| Worst Nuclear Accident in Japanese History Occurs at Mihama: No Deaths |
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| Four Senior Officers Arrested for Planning a Coup in South Africa's Black Apartheid Enclave of Ciskei |
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| 1992 | Algerian Authorities Declare State of Emergency Following Cancelled Elections |
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| 1995 | Two Astronauts Are First African-American and First Briton to Walk in Space |
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| 1999 | Senate Begins Closed-door Deliberations in Clinton Impeachment Trial |
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| 2000 | Boeing Co. Engineers and Technical Workers Begin a 40-day Strike |
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| 2001 | U.S. Navy Submarine Collides with Japanese Fishing Boat Near Hawaii: 9 Die |
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