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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
Good Luck! |
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  Use all of these letters to spell the name of a children's author born on this date:
CANAL SUDS DEMO |
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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 film in which Jean Harlow appeared (according to TVNow):
WEE PUEBLO HOOD |
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Bulgaria: National Day
(Celebration of Treaty of San Stefano that liberated Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire: 03/03/1878) |
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Japan: Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival)
(Observed annually on March 3 to pray for the health and happiness of girls) |
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Malawi: Martyrs' Day
(Observed annually on March 3 to honor the nation's heroes) |
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| 1913 | Cliff Faulknor (Canadian Children's Author) |
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| 1938 | Patricia MacLachlan (Wyoming-born Children's Author) |
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| 1940 | Suse MacDonald (Illinois-born Children's Author) |
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| 1652 | Thomas Otway (English Poet, Playwright) |
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| 1756 | William Godwin (English Philosopher, Novelist) |
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| 1836 | Henry Clay Bruce (Virginia-born African-American Author) |
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| 1878 | Edward Thomas (English Poet) |
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| 1899 | Yury Olesha (Ukrainian Playwright) |
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| 1906 | William T. Brannon (Mississippi-born Journalist) |
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| 1926 | James Merrill (New York City-Writer Awarded the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: "Divine Comedies") |
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| 1938 | Charles F. Longino, Jr. (Mississippi Author, Educator) |
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| 1913 | Margaret Bonds (Chicago-born African-American Pianist, Composer, Arranger) |
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| 1831 | George Pullman (New York-born Railroad Developer, Industrialist) |
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| 1847 | Alexander Graham Bell (Scottish Inventor of the Telephone) |
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| 1895 | Matthew Ridgway (Virginia-born General Who Served as the Supreme Allied Commander in Korea and Europe) |
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| 1795 | E. D. White (Tennessee-born Governor of Louisiana) |
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| 1819 | Alexander Crummell (New York City-born Minister, Advocate of Black Nationalism) |
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| 1873 | William Green (Ohio-born Labor Leader) |
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| 1875 | Walter Jodok Kohler (Wisconsin-born Industrialist, State Governor) |
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| 1911 | Jean Harlow (Missouri-born Actress) |
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| 1920 | James Doohan (Canadian Actor) |
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| 1958 | Miranda Richardson (English Actress) |
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| 1970 | Julie Bowen (Maryland-born Actress) |
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| 1982 | Jessica Biel (Minnesota-born Actress) |
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| 1884 | John Baxter Taylor Jr. (Washington, D.C.-born First African American to Win an Olympic Medal) |
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| 1962 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Illinois-born Member of the Track and Field Hall of Fame) |
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| Herschel Walker (Georgia-born Member of the College Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1703 | Robert Hooke (English Scientist) |
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| 1932 | Alfieri Maserati (Italian Founder of the Maserati Luxury Automobile) |
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| Joseph Mackey Brown (Former Governor of Georgia) |
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| 1959 | Lou Costello (New Jersey-born Comedic Actor) |
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| 1963 | Dorothy Andersen (North Carolina-born Pediatrician, Pathologist; First Scientist to Identify the Disease, Cystic Fibrosis) |
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| 1979 | Mustafa Barzani (Iraqi Kurdish Leader) |
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| 1791 | The First Internal Revenue Act Establishes System of Excise Taxes |
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| 1801 | Georgia's David Emanuel Becomes the First Jewish Governor of Any U.S. State |
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| 1802 | Ludwig van Beethoven Publishes "Moonlight Sonata" |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a fine Day wind from the W, a large flock of Ducks pass up the River—visited by the black Cat, Chief of the Mandans 2d Cheif and a Big Belley, they Stayed but a Short time we informed those Chiefs of the news recved from the Ricaras, all hands employd Ordway: clear & pleasant. Some men employed making coal, and Some makeing toing lines for the perogues. Some men who are makeing perogues came to the Fort for provisions. The 1st and 2nd chief of the 2nd village Came to visit our officers. A nomber others came with corn &.C. |
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| 1806 |
Clark: Two of our Canoes have been lately injured very much in consequence of the tide leaveing them partially on Shore. they Split by this means with their own weight. we had them drawn out on Shore. our convalessents are Slowly on the recovery. La page is taken Sick. gave him Some of Scotts Pills which did not opperate.
no movement of the party to day worthy of notice. every thing moves on in the old way and we are Counting the
Gass: It rained all this day and the following. Our sick men are getting better, but slowly, as they have little or no suitable nourishment. |
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| 1813 | Thomas Posey, U.S. Senator from Louisiana, Is Appointed to Succeed William Henry Harrison as Governor of the Indiana Territory |
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| 1817 | Congress Divides Mississippi Territory into the State of Mississippi and the Alabama Territory |
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| 1820 | U.S. House Passes Missouri Compromise, Admitting Missouri as a Slave State |
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| 1821 | East and West Florida Are Unified under the Control of General Andrew Jackson |
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| 1832 | U.S. Supreme Court Gives Federal Government Rights over Cherokees Located in Georgia |
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| 1835 | Congress Authorizes U.S. Mints in Charlotte, Dahlonega and New Orleans |
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| 1836 | Under Siege by Seminole Indians, American Soldiers in Florida Kill Their Horses and Mules for Food |
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| 1837 | Andrew Jackson Appoints Alcée Louis La Branche as First U.S. Diplomat to the Republic of Texas |
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| 1841 | U.S. Congress Appropriates $1,061,816 to Support the Second War Against the Seminole Indians |
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| 1845 | President Tyler Signs the Act Admitting Florida as the 27th State |
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| Congress Overrides a Presidential Veto for the First Time |
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| 1849 | President James K. Polk Signs the Minnesota Territory into Existence with a Population of About 10,000 Indians and 5,000 Euro-American Settlers |
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| U.S. Congress Creates the Home Department, Forerunner of Interior Department |
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| Congress Approves Minting a $1 Gold Coin |
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| 1851 | Congress Approves Minting a 3-cent Coin |
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| 1853 | Congress Establishes the United States Assay Office in New York |
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| In Minnesota, Fillmore County Is Created, Honoring President Millard Fillmore |
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| 1855 | In Minnesota, St. Louis County Is Created and Named for the St. Louis River |
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| The Minnesota Legislature Approves Sending a Commissioner to New York City to Encourage Immigrants to Settle in Minnesota |
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| 1857 | The James Clinton Is the First Steamboat to Cruise the Willamette River Traveling for 3 Days From Eugene to Corvallis |
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| 1859 | 400 Men, Women and Children Are Sold At the Largest Slave Auction in U.S. History |
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| 1861 | President-elect Lincoln Gives a Dinner for Members of His New Cabinet |
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| 1862 | President Lincoln Transmits to Congress His Communication to Italy About the Trent Affair |
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| Forces from the U.S.S. Ottawa Capture Confederates' Fort Clinch on Florida's Amelia Island |
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| Federal Forces in Florida Capture Confederate Steamer Darlington Loaded with Military Supplies |
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| 1863 | U.S. Congress Establishes Construction Standards for the Transcontinental Railroad |
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| U.S. Congress Passes Civil War Conscription Act |
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| Congress Authorizes a U.S. Mint in Carson City, Nevada |
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| The National Academy of Sciences Is Approved by President Abraham Lincoln |
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| President Lincoln Approves Granting Public Lands to Kansas for Railroad and Telegraph Construction |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln Receives the Endorsement of the Maine Legislature for a Second Term |
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| 1865 | President Lincoln Discusses Letter from Lee to Grant Proposing End to Hostilities |
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| Freedmen's Bureau Is Created to Oversee Slavery-to-Freedom Transition |
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| U.S.S. Honeysuckle Captures Blockade Runner Phantom at Florida's Suwannee River |
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| Federal Forces Launch Unsuccessful Assault on St. Marks Fort Near Tallahassee, Florida |
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| Congress Authorizes the Mint to Place "In God We Trust" on all Gold and Silver Coins |
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| 1866 | Virginia's General Assembly Agrees to Promote Immigration to Strengthen the State's Labor Force |
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| 1870 | State Legislature Votes to Establish the West Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind |
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| Officials Vote to Reopen Delaware College (University of Delaware) Which Had Closed for 11 Years Due to Lack of Money and Students |
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| 1873 | Congress Passes Comstock Law Prohibiting Obscene Material in the U.S. Mail |
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| 1874 | Georgia Law Authorizes Persons and Companies to "Lease" Convicts for Up to Five Years |
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| 1875 | Georges Bizet's Opera ''Carmen'' Premieres in Paris |
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| Congress Authorizes the Minting of a 20-cent Coin |
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| Congress Makes Michigan's Mackinac Island the Nation's Second National Park |
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| 1878 | Treaty of Stefano Ends Two-year Russo-Turkish War |
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| 1879 | Congress Establishes the U.S. Geological Survey |
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| Belva Lockwood Is First Woman Admitted to Appear before U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1883 | Paragould, Arkansas Is Incorporated |
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| 1885 | California Is the First State to Establish a Board of Forestry |
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| 1887 | Anne Sullivan Arrives At Keller Home to Teach Their 6-year-old Daughter Helen |
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| 1888 | The anti-Catholic Group, American Protective Association, Is Founded at Clinton, Iowa |
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| 1891 | U.S. Congress Establishes the Bureau of Immigration as a Branch of the Treasury Department |
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| In New Mexico, the U.S. Congress Establishes the Court of Private Land Claims to Validate Spanish and Mexican Land Grants |
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| North Carolina's General Assembly Establishes Elizabeth City State University |
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| 1905 | The Tallahassee Democrat Is Founded |
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| 1913 | The First Alaska Territorial Legislature Convenes in the Elks Lodge Building at Juneau |
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| 1915 | D.W. Griffith's Controversial Film The Birth of a Nation Premieres in New York City |
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| U.S. Congress Establishes the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics to Study Problems of Flight |
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| 1918 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany & Austria Ends World War I for Russia |
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| 1919 | William E. Boeing and Eddie Hubbard Deliver the First International U.S. Air Mail: Vancouver to Seattle |
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| 1926 | The International Greyhound Racing Association Is Formed in Miami, Florida |
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| 1927 | U.S. Congress Establishes the Bureau of Customs within the Treasury Department |
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| 1931 | President Hoover Signs Bill Designating "Star Spangled Banner" As National Anthem |
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| 1936 | State Code Sets Minimum Hourly Wages in Janesville, Wisconsin at $1 for Masons, 80¢ for Cement Finishers and 85¢ for Carpenters |
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| 1945 | Finland Declares War on Germany |
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| 1949 | The Tucker Automobile Corporation Closes Its Doors |
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| 1952 | Supreme Court Upholds NY Barring Communist Teacher from Public Schools |
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| 1959 | NASA Launches Pioneer 4, the First U.S. Spacecraft Placed into Solar Orbit |
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| 1965 | U.S. Jets Bomb the Ho Chi Minh Trail |
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| 1966 | BBC Announces Plans to Begin Color Television Broadcasts |
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| 1969 | NASA Launches Apollo 9 for the First Manned Flight of the Lunar Module |
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| 1971 | U.S. Special Forces Troops Leave South Vietnam |
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| China Launches Its First Satellite |
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| 1972 | General Motors Workers in Lordstown, Ohio Begin a Strike |
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| 1974 | Turkish Airlines DC-10 Crashes after Takeoff from Paris: Nearly 350 Die |
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| 1982 | Queen Elizabeth Opens London's £153m Barbican Arts Centre |
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| 1985 | 7.8 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 177 Near the Coast of Central Chile |
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| British Miners Call Off Year-Long Strike |
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| 90 mph Winds Whip 15" of Snow into Mountainous Drifts Along the Duluth Harbor Area |
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| 1988 | South Africa's Envoy Accuses United Nations of a "Vindictive Vendetta" Against His Country |
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| 1990 | An American Dog-Sled Team Is the First to Traverse 3,800 Miles Across Antarctica At Its Widest Distance |
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| In a Referendum Vote, Estonians Vote Overwhelmingly for Independence |
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| 1991 | Beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles Police Officers Is Captured on Amateur Video |
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| 1998 | Bill Gates Testifies Before Congress That Microsoft Is Not a Monopoly |
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| 2000 | Dictator General Augusto Pinochet Arrives in Chile after 16 Months in Britain |
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| 2001 | Johnny Ruiz Defeats Evander Holyfield in 12 Rounds to Become the First-Ever Latino WBA Heavyweight Champion |
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| 2002 | The Swiss Abandon 200 Years of Neutrality, Voting to Join the United Nations |
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| 2008 | The Congressional Medal of Honor Is Posthumously Awarded to Woodrow Wilson Keeble, the First Sioux Indian to Receive the Medal |
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