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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 name of a children's author or illustrator born on this date:
IRK EMPEROR AJAR |
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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 name of one of the women present at the first organizational meeting of Women in Film (according to the history section of the Women in Film official web site):
MAYOR KRANZ |
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 Anne Isaacs Born on This Date 1949 [Official Web Site] 
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 Rachel Carson [Official Web Site] 
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 Maria Callas [Official Website]
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 Ella Baker [North Carolina State University]  |
 Maureen Connolly [Int'l Tennis HOF]
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Read Across America Day
(Observed annually on March 2: Dr. Seuss's Birthday) |
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Ethiopia: Victory of Adwa Commemoration Day
(Observed annually to commemorate victory over the Italians at Adwa: 03/02/1896) |
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| 1896 | Clair Bee (West Virginia-born Coach, Author of Young Adult Sports Books; Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1904 | Theodore Geisel (Massachusetts-born Children's Author: Dr. Seuss) |
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| 1921 | Helen Roney Sattler (Iowa-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1925 | Richard Cuffari (New York City-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1933 | Leo Dillon (New York City-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1949 | Anne Isaacs (New York-born Children's Author) |
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| 1960 | Marjorie Blain Parker (Canadian Children's Author) |
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| 1962 | P.J. Lynch (Irish Children's Author Illustrator) |
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| 1820 | Eduard Douwes Dekker (Dutch Novelist Known as Multatuli) |
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| 1859 | Sholem Aleichem (Ukrainian Jewish Humorist, Author) |
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| 1862 | John Jay Chapman (New York City-born Poet) |
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| 1886 | Friedebert Tuglas (Estonian Author, Scholar, Critic, Novelist) |
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| 1897 | Max Schuster (Austrian-American Publisher) |
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| 1905 | Geoffrey Grigson (English Poet) |
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| 1921 | Ernst Haas (Austrian Photojournalist) |
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| 1931 | Tom Wolfe (Virginia-born Novelist) |
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| 1942 | John Irving (New Hampshire-born Novelist) |
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| 1943 | Peter Straub (Wisconsin-born Novelist) |
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| 1824 | Bedrich Smetana (Czech Operatic Composer) |
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| 1902 | Kurt Weill (German-American Operatic Composer: "Mack the Knife") |
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| 1905 | Marc Blitzstein (Pennsylvania-born Composer) |
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| 1887 | Harry Soref (Wisconsin Inventor, Founder of Master Lock) |
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| 1902 | Edward Condon (New Mexico-born Theoretical Physicist) |
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| 1957 | Mark Dean (Tennessee-born African-American Pioneer in Micro-Processing Technologies) |
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| 1459 | Pope Adrian VI (Dutch-born Catholic Pope) |
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| 1876 | Eugenio Maria Giuseppi Giovanni Pacelli (Italian-born Catholic Pope Pius XII) |
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| 1316 | Robert II (Robert Stuart), King of Scotland |
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| 1769 | DeWitt Clinton (New York Governor Who Advocated Construction of the Erie Canal) |
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| 1793 | Sam Houston (Virginia-born Texas Military and Political Leader) |
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| 1829 | William Boyd Allison (Ohio-born U.S. Congressman from Iowa: 1863-1908) |
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| 1836 | Henry B. Brown (Massachusetts-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1953 | Russ Feingold (U.S. Senator From Wisconsin) |
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| 1931 | Mikhail Gorbachev (Russian President of the Soviet Union) |
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| 1917 | Desi Arnaz (Cuban-American Actor: I Love Lucy) |
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| 1919 | Jennifer Jones (Oklahoma-born Actress Awarded 1943 Best Actress Academy Award for Song of Bernadette) |
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| 1942 | Lou Reed (New York-born Popular Musician) |
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| 1962 | Jon Bon Jovi (New Jersey-born Popular Musician) |
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| 1896 | Clair Bee (West Virginia-born Coach, Author of Young Adult Sports Books; Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1934 | Howard "Hopalong" Cassady (Ohio-born Member of the College Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1791 | John Wesley (English Founder of Methodism) |
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| 1835 | Francis II (Austrian-born Holy Roman Emperor) |
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| 1855 | Nicholas I (Russian Tsar) |
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| 1883 | Dudley McIver DuBose (Tennessee-born Confederate General) |
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| 1930 | D. H. Lawrence (English Military Figure, Author) |
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| 1939 | Howard Carter (English Archaeologist Who Discovered the Tomb of King Tut) |
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| 1492 | Ferdinand V, King of Castile and Aragon, Banishes 800,000 Jews as Part of the Inquisition |
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| 1528 | Diego de Mazariegos Founds 1st Spanish Settlement in Mexico Chiapas Region |
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| 1699 | Pierre Le Moyne Names Baton Rouge, LA for a Red Pole Marking Boundaries for Hunting |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a fine Day the river brake up in places all engaged about Something
Mr. La Rocque a Clerk of the N W Company visit us, he has latterly returned from the Establishments on the Assinniboin River with Merchindize to tarade with Indians— Mr. L informs us the N, W. & X Y Companies have visted by the Coal & Several Indians Ordway: a beautiful pleasant morning. the Savages continue to visit us in Order to git their impliments of War made. they bring us in pay corn and beans dryed meat & persimblans Whitehouse: This day we had fine Clear weather. the Men are all employed in Cutting, wood, and Repairing & mending their Cloathes, dressing Deer & Elk Skins & making of mockasins &ca.— |
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| 1806 |
Clark: The diet of the Sick is So inferior that they recover their Strength but Slowly. none of them are now Sick but all in a State of Covelessence with keen appetites and nothing to eate except lean Elk meat. The nativs of this neighbourhood eate the root of the Cattail or Cooper's flag. it is pleasantly tasted and appears to be very nutrecious. the inner part of the root which is eaten without any previous preperation is Composed of a number of capellary white flexable Strong fibers among which is a mealy or Starch like Substance which readily disolves in the mouth and Seperates from the fibers which are then rejected. it appears to me that this Substance would make excellent Starch; nothing Can be of a pureer white than it is.—.
This evening late Drewyer, Crusat & Wiser returned with a most acceptable Supply of fat Sturgen, fresh anchoves
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This day was also wet. The fishing party returned at night, and brought with them some thousands of the same kind of small fish we got from the natives a few days ago, and also some sturgeon.
The Indian name of the river we were up yesterday is Kil-hou-a-nak-kle, and that of the small river which passes the fort, Ne-tul. |
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| 1807 | U.S. Congress Bans Importation of Slaves Beginning January 1, 1807 |
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| 1819 | The Arkansas Territory Is Created by an Act of Congress |
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| 1824 | Supreme Court Upholds Interstate Commerce Powers: Gibbons v. Ogdens |
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| Michigan Territory Requests $1,500 from U.S. Congress to Build Road from Detroit to Chicago |
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| 1829 | New England Asylum (Perkins School) for the Blind Is Incorporated in Boston |
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| 1831 | U.S. Congress Grants Land for Construction of the Wabash and Erie Canal Which Will Eventually Run from Toledo, Ohio to Evansville, Indiana |
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| 1836 | Texas Declares Its Independence from Mexico |
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| 1841 | 3 of 20 U.S. Infantry Die in Skirmishes with Seminole Indians Near Http://www.ga.gov.au/oracle/nuclear-explosion-query.jsp's Fort Brooke |
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| 1848 | French King, Louis Philippe, Leaves France Seeking Shelter in England |
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| 1849 | Indiana General Joseph Lane Arrives at Oregon City as the First Governor of the Oregon Territory |
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| 1850 | The Ohio Legislature Charters Capital University in Columbus |
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| 1852 | Production of the World's First Practical Steam Fire Engine Begins in Cincinnati |
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| 1853 | President Fillmore Signs Bill Creating a Washington Territory Separate from the Oregon Territory |
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| 1855 | The First Post Office Opens in Ashland, Wisconsin |
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| 1858 | The S.S. Traveler Sinks in Washington's Puget Sound Near Port Gamble: 5 Die |
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| 1860 | Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln Campaigns in Dover, New Hampshire |
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| 1863 | Lincoln Forwards to Congress New Mexico Territory's Intention to Set Aside Land for Education |
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| Federal Gunboat Sagamore Fails to Capture Confederate Blockade-runner Florence Nightingale |
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| In Delaware, an Explosion of Powder at Du Pont's Hagley Yards Kills 17 Workers |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln & Family Attend Grover's Theatre to See Edwin Booth in "Hamlet" |
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| 1865 | Custer Routes Confederates at Waynesboro, VA, Securing Shenandoah Valley |
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| Crew Sets Fire to the Confederate Blockade-runner Rob Rey to Avoid Capture |
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| 1867 | First Reconstruction Act Divides Southern States into 5 Military Districts |
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| Congress Passes the "Tenure of Office Act" |
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| The Freedman's Bureau in Washington, D.C., Charters Howard University |
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| Hundreds of African-American Men Demand Voting Rights at Alexandria, VA Lyceum |
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| 1877 | Rutherford B. Hayes Is Declared the Winner of 1876 Presidential Election |
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| 1878 | Anoka, Minnesota Is Created |
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| 1881 | Billy the Kid Writes the 4th of 6 Letters to New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace from a Santa Fe Jail, Asking for a Meeting |
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| 1886 | Texas Celebrates the Semicentennial of Its Independence from Mexico |
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| 1896 | Henri Becquerel Reports First Observations of Radiation from Uranium Compound |
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| Ethiopians Resist Colonialization Defeating Italians at Battle of Adwa |
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| 1899 | President McKinley Signs Bill Creating Mount Rainier National Park, Washington |
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| President McKinley Promotes George Dewey As First Admiral of the U.S. Navy |
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| 1900 | Http://www.ga.gov.au/oracle/nuclear-explosion-query.jsp's Audubon Society First Meets in Maitland to Prevent Slaughter of Plumed Birds for Hat Feathers |
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| 1901 | Alabama Is the First State to Establish a Department of Archives |
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| Arkansas Provides That Cities Will Establish and Maintain Libraries |
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| 1903 | The California Golden Poppy Is Designated as the Official State Flower |
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| William R. Day Sworn in as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| U.S. Congress Appropriates $485,000 for a Submarine Telegraph Cable from Seattle to the Alaskan Cities of Sitka and Juneau |
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| 1907 | Edith Wharton's Madame De Treymes Is Published |
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| 1917 | President Wilson Signs Jones-Shafroth Act Giving Puerto Ricans Citizenship |
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| 1919 | Claude Barnett Founds the Associated Negro Press (AFP) in Chicago |
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| 1923 | Time Magazine Makes Its Debut |
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| 1925 | Harlan Fiske Stone Sworn in as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1927 | Fire Destroys West Virginia's Temporary State Capitol in Charleston |
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| 1928 | Virginia State Senate Approves a Monument Honoring World War I Veterans |
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| 1929 | Congress Increases the Penalties on Prohibition Violations |
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| 1933 | 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 2,990 in Sanriku, Japan |
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| 1,200 Unemployed Workers Protest for Public Assistance in Olympia, Washington |
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| Movie "King Kong" Premieres in New York City |
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| 1936 | Halsted L. Ritter, Judge of the U. S. Court for the Southern District of Http://www.ga.gov.au/oracle/nuclear-explosion-query.jsp, Is Impeached |
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| 1938 | Lutheran Pastor, Martin Niemoller, Is Sentenced to 7 Months Prison for Opposing Hitler |
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| 1939 | Massachusetts Ratifies the Bill of Rights, 147 Years Late |
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| Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli Is Elected Pope as Pius XII |
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| 1941 | 40 Farmers Are Arrested in Bridgeville, Delaware for Driving Grain Trucks on Sunday |
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| 1943 | U.S. & Australians Begin 3-day Bombing of Japanese Convoy in Bismarck Sea |
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| 1944 | The Academy Award Presentations Are First Televised |
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| 1946 | Ho Chi Minh Is Elected President of North Vietnam |
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| 1949 | In Texas, a U.S. B-50 Superfortress Completes the First Non-stop, Round-the-World 23,452-mile Trip Flight in 94h 1m |
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| U.S. Soft Coal Miners Begin a Two-week Strike |
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| 1950 | Ground Is Broken for Construction of Georgia's Buford Dam That Will Create Lake Lanier |
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| Jack Kerouac's The Town and the City Is Published |
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| 1955 | Claudette Colvin Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Montgomery, Alabama Bus |
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| William Inge's Bus Stop Premieres at the Music Box Theatre, New York |
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| 1956 | King Hussein of Jordan Dismisses British General, Takes Control of Arab Troops |
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| France Officially Recognizes Morocco's Independence |
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| 1958 | English Explorer Vivian Fuchs Completes First Land Crossing of Antarctica |
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| 1959 | Http://www.ga.gov.au/oracle/nuclear-explosion-query.jsp Citrus Growers Are Prohibited from Using Coal-tar-based Orange Dye to Enhance Their Produce |
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| 1961 | Alabama Native Luther Leonidas Terry Begins Serving as U.S. Surgeon General under President John F. Kennedy |
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| 1962 | Ne Win Leads Burmese Army in Successful Coup Ousting U Nu |
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| Wilt Chamberlain Scores 100 Points Against the New York Knicks in Hershey, Pennyslvania |
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| 1964 | Puyallup Indians Protest Fishing Treaty Rights in Washington |
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| 1967 | Robert Kennedy Proposes Plan to End the Vietnam War |
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| In Wisconsin, Beloit College Students and Faculty Protest Dow Chemical's Production of Napalm Bombs for the Vietnam War |
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| 1968 | President Lyndon Johnson Is Present as First Galaxy C5A Is Completed at Marietta, Georgia |
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| 1969 | Soviet and Chinese Troops Clash in Border Dispute |
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| The Concorde's Maiden Flight is Faultless |
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| 1970 | Rhodesia Prime Minister, Ian Smith, Declares His Country a Sovereign Republic |
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| 1972 | U.S. Launches Pioneer 10 for Exploration of Jupiter and Neptune |
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| 1973 | Leftist Coalition Led by Liam Cosgrave Wins Elections in Irish Republic |
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| The Women in Film Organization Is Founded |
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| 1974 | Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore Opens in South Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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| 1985 | U.S. Approves AIDS Test to Protect the Blood Supply |
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| 1990 | Nelson Mandela Is Elected Deputy President of the African National Congress |
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| 1991 | Sri Lanka's Deputy Defense Minister Among 19 Killed in Car Bomb Attack |
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| The World's Largest Cylindrical Sundial Is Unveiled at Disney World in Orlando |
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| 1994 | South Africa's Inkatha Freedom Party Agrees to Participate in April Elections |
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| 1995 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-67) with UV Telescope |
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| 7-time Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti Charged for Consorting with the Mafia |
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| 2000 | Declared Unfit for Trial, Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet Returns to Chile |
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| 2002 | Palestinian Suicide Bomber Kills 11 Israelis in Jerusalem |
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| 2005 | Georgia's Leah Ward Sears Is First African-American State Chief Justice |
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| Jackie Robinson Is Posthumously Awarded the Congressional Gold Medal |
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| 2009 | Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira Is Assassinated |
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