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FEBRUARY 28 |
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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 person born the same year as Adrian Dantley:
JOE MISNAME |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a song made famous by the Count Basie Orchestra in 1939 (according to PBS):
ANTACID WAXER |
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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 illustrated by Javaka Steptoe (according to Amazon.com):
CLOSEUP MOP TAKEOFF |
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 Javaka Steptoe
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 Norbert Rillieux
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 Count Basie
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 Elijah Muhammad
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 Jackie Robinson
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Finland: Kalevala Day (Finnish Day of Culture)
(Celebration of the anniversary of the preface of the first edition of the Kalevala epic: 02/28/1835) |
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Taiwan: Peace Memorial Day
(Remembrance of the February 28 Holocaust: 1947) |
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| 1820 | John Tenniel (English Artist, Illustrator of Alice in Wonderland) |
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| 1948 | Donna Jo Napoli (Florida-born Linguist, Children's Author) |
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| 1953 | Megan McDonald (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author) |
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| 1970 | Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket (San Francisco-born, Children's Author) |
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| 1533 | Michel de Montaigne (French Essayist) |
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| 1783 | Gabriele Rossetti (Italian Poet) |
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| 1894 | Ben Hecht (New York City-born Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter) |
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| 1895 | Marcel Pagnol (French Publisher, Playwright, Film Director) |
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| 1908 | Dee Alexander Brown (Louisiana-born Native-American Author of Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee) |
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| 1909 | Stephen Spender (English Poet) |
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| 1913 | Virginia Hamilton Adair (New York City-born Poet) |
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| 1926 | Donald Coldsmith (Kansas-born Author of Historical Western Novels) |
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| 1954 | Bobby Delaughter (Mississippi-born Author) |
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| 1820 | John Tenniel (English Artist, Illustrator of Alice in Wonderland) |
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| 1907 | Milton Caniff (Ohio-born Cartoonist: Steve Canyon) |
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| 1876 | John Alden Carpenter (Illinois-born Composer) |
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| 1882 | Geraldine Farrar (Massachusetts-born Operatic Soprano) |
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| 1901 | Linus Pauling (Oregon-born 1954 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, 1962 Nobel Laureate for Peace) |
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| 1911 | Denis Parsons Burkitt (Irish-born English Surgeon Who Discovered That Viruses Can Cause Cancer in Humans) |
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| 1930 | Leon Cooper (New York City-born 1972 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1822 | Matthew Duncan Ector (Georgia-born Confederate General) |
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| 1516 | Mary I, Queen of England |
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| 1766 | John Cark (North Carolina-born Governor of Georgia) |
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| 1814 | William Temple (Maryland-born Governor of Delaware: 1846-1847) |
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| 1880 | Harvey Parnell (29th Governor of Arkansas: 1928-33) |
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| 1906 | Bugsy Siegel (New York City-born Gangster) |
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| 1910 | Vincente Minnelli (Illinois-born Film Director) |
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| 1915 | Zero Mostel (New York City-born Actor) |
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| 1923 | Charles Durning (New York-born Actor) |
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| 1930 | Gavin MacLeod (New York-born Actor) |
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| 1939 | Tommy Tune (Texas-born Dancer, Singer, Choreographer) |
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| 1940 | Joe South (Georgia-born Popular Musician) |
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| 1948 | Bernadette Peters (New York City-born Actress) |
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| Mercedes Ruehl (New York City-born Actress) |
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| 1957 | John Turturro (New York City-born Actor) |
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| 1962 | Rae Dawn Chong (Canadian Actress) |
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| 1931 | Dean Smith (Kansas-born Coach, Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1940 | Mario Andretti (Italian-American Race Car Driver) |
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| 1956 | Adrian Dantley (Washington, D.C.-born African-American Professional Basketball Player) |
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| 1973 | Eric Lindros (Canadian Ice Hockey Player) |
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| 1953 | Jim Thorpe (Oklahoma-born Native American Member of the Track & Field Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1916 | Henry James (New York-born Novelist) |
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| 1967 | Henry Luce (American Publisher: Time, Life, Fortune, Sports Illustrated) |
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| 1986 | Olof Palme (Prime Minister of Sweden: Assassination) |
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| 2007 | Arthur Schlesinger (Ohio-born Historian, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author) |
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| 2009 | Paul Harvey (Oklahoma-born Member of the Radio Hall of Fame) |
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| 1066 | London's Westminster Abbey Is First Opened |
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| 1638 | Troops of Japan's Shogun Yoshimune Set Fire to the Castle of Hara, Killing 30,000 Christians Inside |
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| 1749 | First Edition of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones Is Published |
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| 1759 | Pope Clement XIII Permits the Bible to be Translated into All Languages of Roman Catholic States |
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| 1784 | John Wesley Charters the First Methodist Church in America |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a fine morning, two men of the N W Compy arrve with letters and Sacka comah [saccacommis, the word derives from a Chippewa word, saga'kominagûnj'. Spreng., bearberry or kinnikinick. Bearberry was often mixed with red osier dogwood, referred to as kinnikinick, and smoked ceremonially by the Indians of the plains.] also a Root and top of a plant [purple coneflower] presented by Mr. Haney, for the Cure of mad Dogs Snakes &c, and to be found & used as follows vz: "this root is found on high lands and asent of hills, the way of useing it is to Scarify the part when bitten to chu or pound an inch or more if the root is Small, and applying it to the bitten part renewing it twice a Day. the bitten person is not to chaw nor Swallow any of the Root for it might have contrary effect." Sent out 16 men to make four Perogus those men returned in the evening and informed that they found trees they thought would answer.—
Mr. Gravelin two frenchmen & two Inds. arrive from the Ricara Nation with
Mr. Gravilin informs that the Sisetoons and the 3 upper bands of the Tetons,
Mr. Gravilin further informs that the Party which Robed us of the 2 horses laterly were all Sieoux 100 in number, they Called at the Ricaras on their return, the Ricares being displeased at their Conduct would not give them any thing to
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about 3 oClock Mr. Gravelleen and Mr. Roie 2 frenchman came up from the Rickarees 2 of the R. Ree Indians came with them they all Informed us that they Saw the Souix Savvages who Robed our men of the 2 horses, & they said their was 106 in nomber and that they had a mind for to kill our men & that they held a counsel over them whether to kill them and take their arms and all or not. but while they were doing that our men were off and got clear, but they Say if they can catch any more of us they will kill us for they think that we are bad medicine and Say that we must be killed.
Mr. Tabbo a frenchman who is among them & Rick a Rees trading, Sent a letter up to the commanding officers & Mandans chiefs to keep a Good lookout for he had heared the Souix Say that they Should Shurely come to war in the Spring against us and Mandanes. in the evening the men returned who had been Gass: Sixteen of us went up the river about six miles, where we found and cut down trees for four canoes. While we were absent an express arrived from the Rickarees village with news that the Sioux had declared war against us, and also against the Mandans and Grossventers. They had boasted of the robbery of the 14th at the Rickarees village in their way home, and that they intended to massacre the whole of us in the spring. By this express we therefore found out that it was the Sioux who had taken the horses from our men. |
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| 1806 |
Clark: Reubin Field and Collins set out this morning early on a hunting excurtion up the Netul.
Kus ke-lar a Clatsop man, his wife and a Small boy (a Slave, who he informed me was his Cook, and offerd to Sell him to me for beeds & a gun) visited us to day they brought Some anchovies, Sturgeon, a beaver robe, and Some roots for Sale tho' they asked Such high prices for every article that we purchased nothing but a part of a Sturgeon
Shields Jos: Field and Shannon returned late this evening haveing killed five Elk tho' two of them are of a mountain Kuskalaw brought a dog which Peter Crusat had purchased with his Capo which this fellow had on.
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| 1827 | The B&O Is the First U.S. Railway Chartered for Freight and Passengers |
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| 1835 | Elias Lönnrot's Kalevala, the Finnish National Epic, Is Completed for Printing |
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| 1837 | Illinois' Legislators Select Springfield as the State's Permanent Seat of Government |
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| 1838 | Poinsett County, Arkansas Is Created |
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| 1839 | Seminole Indians Attacked a U.S. Infantry Detachment Near Fort Miami, Florida, Killing 1 |
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| 1844 | President John Tyler Narrowly Escapes Death from Explosion Aboard USS Princeton |
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| 1847 | U.S. Defeats México in the Battle of Sacramento |
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| 1849 | The First Gold Prospectors Arrive in San Francisco Aboard the Steamship California |
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| The Delaware General Assembly Enacts a Vagrancy Code Restricting African-American Movements |
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| 1859 | El Paso, Texas Is Given Its Name |
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| 1860 | Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln Campaigns in Providence, Rhode Island |
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| 1861 | Congress Creates the Colorado Territory |
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| 1863 | Union Gunboats Shell and Destroy Blockade Runner Rattlesnake Near Fort McAllister, Georgia |
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| 1864 | Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Lead Ill-fated Union Raid to Free Federal Prisoners |
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| Presidential Lincoln Receives Report That Ohio's Legislature Unanimously Supports His Renomination |
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| 1865 | U.S.S. Honeysuckle Captures Blockade Running British Schooner Sort |
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| 1866 | Georgia Chooses to Participate in Land-grant College Program under the 1862 Morrill Act |
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| 1867 | The University of Illinois Is Established. |
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| 1872 | West Virginia's State Legislature Passes Act to Establish a State Normal School at Concord |
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| 1873 | Gerhard Hansen Discovers the Bacterium That Causes Leprosy |
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| 1874 | Georgia Creates the First State Department of Agriculture in the Nation |
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| The American Premiere of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Is Performed at New York's Academy of Music |
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| 1878 | Congress Approves the Issue of Silver Certificates and the Coinage of Silver Dollars |
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| 1882 | The Royal College of Music Is Founded in London |
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| 1884 | The First Issue of Florida's Palatka "Daily News" Is Published |
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| 1887 | Alabama Passes Its First Law Fixing Age Limits Work Hours for Certain Child Labor |
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| 1893 | First Freight Train from the East Arrives in Seattle, Washington over New Transcontinental Tracks |
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| 1909 | Panama City, Florida Is Incorporated |
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| 1916 | Allied Forces Conquer the Cameroons, a German Protectorate on Africa's West Coast |
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| 1921 | The Cleveland Clinic Opens to Its First Patients |
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| 1925 | 6.7 Magnitude Earthquake Centers on Canada's Charlevoix-Kamouraska Area |
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| 1932 | The Last Ford Model A Is Produced |
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| 1935 | Gerard Berchet Makes the First Strands of Nylon 6-6 |
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| 1942 | Detroit Blacks & Whites Clash over Access to New Government Housing |
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| 1944 | Nazi Soldiers Arrest Dutch Christian Corrie ten Boom and Her Family for Harboring Jews |
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| 1947 | Troops of Chiang Kai-Shek Massacre Taiwan Citizen Protesters: 30,000 die |
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| 1948 | The Girls Rodeo Association Is Formed in San Angelo, Texas |
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| 1951 | Senate Identifies Major Crime Syndicates in the U.S. |
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| 1952 | Vincent Massey Is Sworn in as the First Canadian-born Governor-General |
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| 1953 | James Watson & Francis Crick Discover Structure of DNA |
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| 1954 | U.S. Conducts 1 mT Atmospheric Nuclear Test on Bikini Island |
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| 1968 | NASA Launches ESSA-2 Satellite to Provide Worldwide Cloud-Cover Photography |
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| 1969 | 7.8 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 13 in Portugal and Morocco |
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| 1973 | 3.8 Magnitude Earthquake Felt in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania |
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| 1974 | U.S. & Egypt Establish First Diplomatic Relations in 7 Years |
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| 1975 | 40+ Die When London's Underground Train Smashed into the End of a Tunnel |
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| 1977 | Earvin "Magic" Johnson Scores 27 Pts in Michigan's First Televised High School Basketball Game |
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| 1979 | 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered on Mt. St. Elias, Alaska |
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| 1980 | U.S. Conducts Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada |
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| 1982 | Getty Museum Becomes World's Most Richly Endowed Museum with $1.2B Bequest from J. Paul Getty |
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| 1983 | Final Episode of M*A*S*H Captures 77% of Viewing Audience |
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| 1986 | Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme Is Assassinated in Stockholm |
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| 1987 | Gorbachev Calls for Elimination of Europe's Nuclear Missiles |
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| 1990 | Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS 36) Is Launched for Four-day Defense Mission |
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| 30 People Are Injured in 5.5 Magnitude Southern California Earthquake |
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| 1991 | Gulf War Cease Fire Begins |
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| 1993 | Federal Agents Begin 51-day Branch Davidian Standoff in Texas |
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| 1994 | In NATO's First Military Action Ever, U.S. Fighters Shoot Down Serbian Bombers Over Bosnia |
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| Brady Bill Imposing Hand-gun Purchase Wait Period Becomes Law |
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| 1995 | Denver's New International Airport Opens |
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| 1997 | 6.1 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 965 in Armenia-Azerbaijan-Iran Border Region |
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| 2001 | 6.8 Magnitude Earthquake Injures 400 in Washington's Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia Area |
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