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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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Today's 5-Minute Quest
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  Use all of these letters to spell the name of a performing artist born on this date:
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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 musical style of Miriam Makeba (according to All Music Guide):
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 Peggy Rathmann Born on This Date 1953 [Kidstamps]
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 Dian Fossey [University of Colorado]
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 Miriam Makeba Born on This Date 1932
|  Jeannette Rankin [U.S. Congress]
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 Gertrude Ederle [Michigan State University]
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British Virgin Islands: Stoutt's Birthday
(Commemoration of H. Lavity Stoutt, first Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands) |
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Vermont: Vermont Day
(Commemoration of Vermont admitted as the 14th state of the Union: 03/04/1791) |
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| 1906 | Meindert DeJong (Dutch Children's Author) |
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| 1923 | Patrick Moore (English Science & Science Fiction Writer, Children's Author) |
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| 1931 | Miriam Bourne (New York-born Children's Author) |
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| 1949 | Helen Frost (Illinois-born Children's Author) |
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| 1953 | Peggy Rathmann (Minnesota-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1966 | Dav Pilkey (Ohio-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1875 | Enrique Larreta (Argentine Novelist) |
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| 1920 | Ralph G. Martin (Chicago-born Biographer, Historian) |
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| 1928 | Alan Sillitoe (English Novelist) |
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| 1948 | John Ellroy (Los Angeles-born Crime Novelist) |
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| 1965 | Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan Novelist) |
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| 1756 | Henry Raeburn (Scottish Portrait Painter) |
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| 1890 | Gerard Moerdijk (South African Architect) |
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| 1678 | Antonio Vivaldi (Italian Composer, Violinist) |
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| 1394 | Henry the Navigator (Portuguese Sponsor of Voyages of Exploration) |
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| 1754 | Benjamin Waterhouse (physician) |
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| 1859 | Aleksandr Popov (Russian Physicist, Electrical Engineer) |
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| 1877 | Garrett Morgan (Kentucky-born African-American Inventor of a Traffic Light) |
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| 1881 | Richard Tolman (Massachusetts-born Physical Chemist) |
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| 1904 | George Gamow (Russian-American Nuclear Physicist. Cosmologist) |
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| 1747 | Casimir Pulaski (Polish "Father of the American Cavalry") |
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| 1864 | David Watson Taylor (Virginia-born Naval Officer, Naval Architect) |
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| 1909 | Harry Helmsley (New York City-born Real Estate Investor) |
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| 1889 | Pearl White (Missouri-born Actress) |
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| 1912 | John Garfield (New York City-born Actor) |
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| 1932 | Miriam Makeba (South African Popular Singer, Rights Activist) |
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| 1938 | Paula Prentiss (Texas-born Actress) |
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| 1944 | Bobby Womack (Ohio-born African-American Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) |
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| 1950 | Emilio Estefan (Cuban-American Music Producer, Songwriter) |
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| 1958 | Patricia Heaton (Ohio-born Actress) |
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| 1967 | Evan Dando (Massachusetts-born Folk-Rock Musician) |
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| 1968 | Patsy Kensit (English Popular Singer, Actress) |
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| 1888 | Knute Rockne (Norwegian-American Football Coach; Member of the College Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1891 | Dazzy Vance (Iowa-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1901 | Charles Goren (Pennsylvania-born Contract Bridge Authority) |
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| 1961 | Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini (Ohio-born Professional Boxer) |
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| 1976 | Peyton Manning (Louisiana-born Professional Football Player) |
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| 1193 | Saladin (Sultan of Egypt and Syria) |
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| 1858 | Matthew Calbraith Perry (Rhode Island-born Commodore in the U.S. Navy) |
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| 1866 | Alexander Campbell (Irish-American Founder of Bethany College in West Virginia) |
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| 1868 | Jesse Chisholm (Tennessee-born Founder of the Chisholm Trail) |
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| 1883 | Alexander Stephens (Governor of Georgia) |
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| 1963 | William Carlos Williams (New Jersey-born Latin-American Author, Physician) |
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| Edouard Belin (French Engineer Who Invented the First Telephoto Transmission Device) |
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| 1996 | Minnie Pearl (Tennessee-born Country Comedian) |
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| 1999 | Harry A. Blackmun (Illinois-born Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 2009 | Horton Foote (Texas-born Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award-winning Playwright, Screenwriter) |
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| 1461 | England King Henry VI Is Deposed by Edward, Duke of York, During War of the Roses |
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| 1665 | King Charles II of England Declares War on the Netherlands |
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| 1681 | Britain's Charles II Grants William Penn Charter for New American Province |
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| 1699 | Jews are Expelled from Lubeck Germany |
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| 1762 | The Georgia General Assembly Passes a Law Requiring Church Attendance and Prohibiting Travel on Sundays Except to Church |
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| 1776 | American Forces Occupy Dorchester Heights Just South of Boston |
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| 1789 | The U.S. Congress Meets for the First Time Under the Constitution |
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| 1791 | Vermont Becomes the 14th State of the Union |
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| Pennsylvania's Israel Jacobs Is the First Jewish Member of Congress |
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| 1793 | George Washington Is Inaugurated for a Second Term |
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| 1797 | John Adams Is Inaugurated as the Second President of the United States |
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| 1801 | Thomas Jefferson Is First President Sworn into Office in Washington, D.C. |
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| The U.S. Marine Band First Performs for an Inaugural; Thomas Jefferson First Calls the Band "The President's Own" |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a Cloudy morning wind from the N W the after part of the day Clear, visited by the Black Cat & Big White, who brought a Small present of meat, an Engage of the N W Co. Came for a horse, and requested in the name of the woman of the princapal of his Department Some Silk of three Colours, which we furnished—. The Assinniboins who visited the Mandans a fiew Days ago returned and attempted to take horses of the Minetarres & were fired on by them— Ordway: the wind high from the N. W. a nomber of the Savages bring us dryed meat and corn. The day pleasant. |
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| 1806 |
Clark: Not any accurrance to day worthy of notice. we live Sumptiously on our wappatoe and Sturgeon. the Anchovey is so delicate that they Soon become tainted unless pickled or Smoked. the nativs run a Small Stick through their gills and hang them in the Smoke of their Lodges, or Kindle Small fires under them for the purpose of drying them. they need no previous preperation of gutting &c. and will Cure in 24 hours. the nativs do not appear to be very Scrupilous about eating them a little feated. the fresh sturgeon they Keep maney days by immersing it in water. they Cook their Sturgeon by means of vapor or Steam. the process is as follows. a brisk fire is kindled on which a parcel of Stones are Sufficiently heated, the Stones are So arranged as to form a tolerable leavel Surface, the Sturgeon which had been previously cut into large flaetches is now laid on the hot Stones; a parcel of Small boughs of bushes is next laid on, and a Second course of the Sturgeon thus repeating alternate layers of Sturgeon & boughs untill the whole is put on which they design to Cook. it is next covered closely with mats and water is poared in Such manner as to run in among the hot Stones, and the vapor arriseing being confind by the mats, cooks the fish. the whole process is performd in an hour and the Sturgeon thus Cooked is much better than either boiled or roasted. in their usial way of boiting of other fish in baskets with hot Stones is not so good
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| 1809 | James Madison Is Inaugurated as the 4th President of the United States |
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| The U.S. Marine Band Performs at the First Inaugural Ball |
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| 1811 | The First Bank of the U.S. Liquidates Its Assets and Closes Its Doors |
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| 1813 | John Conner Establishes Connersville, Indiana |
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| 1817 | William Rabun, President of the Georgia Senate, Assumed Office as Governor of Georgia |
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| 1823 | Richard Keith Call Assumes the Position of Florida Territorial Representative in the United States House of Representatives |
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| 1824 | Territorial Governor William Pope Duval Issues a Proclamation Officially Establishing Tallahassee as the Capital of Florida |
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| 1825 | John Quincy Adams Is Inaugurated as 6th U.S. President |
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| 1829 | Andrew Jackson Is Inaugurated as 7th U.S. President and Entertains over 20,000 Visitors at the White House |
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| 1830 | John Quincy Adams Enters Congress as a Representative of Massachusetts |
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| 1837 | Martin Van Buren Is Inaugurated as 8th U.S. President |
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| The Illinois State Legislature Grants a City Charter to Chicago |
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| 1841 | William Henry Harrison Delivers the Longest Inaugural Speech in History, Catches Pneumonia and Dies in 1 Month |
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| 2 Members of the 2nd U.S. Infantry Are Wounded in a Skirmish with the Seminoles on Florida's Ocklawaha River |
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| 1845 | James K. Polk Is Inaugurated as 11th U.S. President |
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| 1847 | In Michigan, Lt. Governor William L. Greenly Replaces Governor Alpheus Felch, Who Resigned to Take a Seat in the U.S. Senate |
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| 1849 | Zachary Taylor Refuses to Be Inaugurated on Sunday |
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| 1850 | Emily Dickinson Sends a Valentine ("Awake ye muses") to Elbridge Bowdoin |
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| 1854 | In Minnesota, St. Paul and Stillwater Are Incorporated as Cities |
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| 1856 | Georgia's Governor Is Given Authority to Call a Statewide Convention Should the U.S. Congress Enact Any Law Regulating or Prohibiting Slavery |
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| 1857 | In Florida, 12 Members of the U.S. 4th Artillery and 5th Infantry Are Killed When Attacked By Seminoles Near Big Cypress Swamp |
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| 1861 | Abraham Lincoln Is Inaugurated as the 16th U.S. President |
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| The U.S. Government Printing Office First Opens |
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| The First Confederate flag Is Raised over the Alabama Capitol by the Granddaughter of Former U.S. President John Tyler |
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| 1862 | The U.S. Senate Confirms Appointment of Senator Andrew Johnson as Military Governor of Tennessee |
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| The Federal Ship, U.S.S. Santiago de Cuba Captures the Sloop, O.K. Off the Florida Coast Near Cedar Keys |
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| In New Mexico, Governor. Henry Connelly Flees Santa Fe with 120 Wagons Ahead of Advancing Confederate Troops |
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| 1863 | President Lincoln Approves an Act of Congress Creating the National Academy of Sciences |
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| The U.S.S. James S. Chambers Seizes the Blockade-Running Spanish Sloop Relampago and Schooner Ida Off Florida's Gulf Coast |
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| Abraham Lincoln Signs the Act Creating the Idaho Territory |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln and Family Visit Grover's Theatre to See Edwin Booth Play "Richelieu" |
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| 1865 | Abraham Lincoln Is Inaugurated for a Second Term |
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| Walt Whitman Describes President Lincoln As Very Worn and Tired |
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| In Florida, 1,000 Union Troops Land Near St. Mark's Lighthouse as Confederate Troops Prepare for an Assault on Tallahassee |
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| 1869 | Ulysses S. Grant Is Inaugurated as 18th U.S. President |
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| The Delaware General Assembly Names Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. to Succeed His Father, .James A. Bayard, Jr., in the U.S. Senate |
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| 1871 | Virginia-born African-American, Josiah T. Walls, Is Sworn In as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida |
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| 1872 | The Boston Globe Publishes Its First Edition |
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| 1873 | In New York, The Daily Graphic Publishes Its First Edition as America's First Illustrated Daily Newspaper |
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| 1877 | Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Is First Performed at the Bolshoi Theatre |
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| 1881 | James A. Garfield Is Inaugurated As 20th U.S. President |
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| 1883 | Georgia's Governor Alexander Stephens Dies in Office |
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| 1885 | Grover Cleveland Is Inaugurated as 21st U.S. President |
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| 1886 | S. W. Prichard Is Elected the First President of the Florida State Teachers' Association at its meeting in DeFuniak Springs |
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| 1887 | Gottlieb Daimler's First Gasoline-Powered Motor Carriage Makes Its First Test Run in Esslingen and Cannstatt, Germany |
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| William Randolph Hearst Buys the San Francisco Examiner |
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| 1889 | Benjamin Harrison Is Inaugurated as 23rd U.S. President |
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| 1893 | Grover Cleveland Is Inaugurated as 24th U.S. President |
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| 1897 | William McKinley Is Inaugurated as 25th U.S. President |
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| 1901 | William McKinley Is Inaugurated for Second Presidential Term |
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| 1902 | The American Automobile Association (AAA) Is Founded in Chicago |
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| Seattle Voters Approve the Construction of a Hydroelectric Dam That Will Provide the City's First Electricity |
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| 1904 | In Hardin County, Texas, the Batson-Old Oilfield Reaches Its Peak Daily Production of More Than 150,000 Barrels of Crude |
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| 1905 | Theodore Roosevelt Is Sworn in for His Second Term as President of the United States |
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| 1908 | Lakeview Primary School Catches Fire in Collingwood, Ohio: 175 Die |
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| 1909 | William Howard Taft Is Inaugurated as 27th U.S. President During 10" Snowstorm |
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| 1912 | Sawmill Workers in Hoquiam, Washington Go Out on Strike |
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| 1913 | Woodrow Wilson Is Inaugurated as the 28th U.S. President |
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| Just Hours Before Leaving Office, President William Howard Taft Signs the Bill Establishing the Department of Labor |
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| Willard Saulsbury, Jr. Is the Last U.S. Senator Elected by the Delaware General Assembly Prior to Implementation of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution |
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| 1915 | President Woodrow Wilson Signs the Alaska School Lands Bill, Turning over to the Territory Sections 16 and 36 of All Surveyed Townships |
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| 1917 | Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana Begins Her Term as First Female Member of Congress |
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| 1921 | Congressional Act Creates Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas |
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| William Faulkner's "Marionettes", a One-Act Play, Is Produced at the University of Mississippi |
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| 1922 | F. Scott Fitzgerald Publishes The Beautiful and Damned |
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| 1925 | Calvin Coolidge Is Inaugurated as 30th U.S. President |
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| 1929 | Herbert Hoover Is Inaugurated as 31st U.S. President |
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| Charles Curtis Is the First Native-American Vice-President |
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| Ruth Bryan Owen Begins Her First of Two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's Fourth Congressional District |
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| 1930 | Former President Calvin Coolidge Dedicates Coolidge Dam Near Globe, Arizona |
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| 1933 | Franklin Roosevelt Is Inaugurated for His First Term as President |
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| John Nance Garner of Texas Leaves His Position as Speaker of the House to Become Vice President of the United States |
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| Austrian Premier, Engelbert Dollfuss, Suspends Parliamentary Government and Prohibits Political Parades and Assemblies |
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| Labor Secretary, Frances Perkins Is First Woman to Serve in a Presidential Cabinet |
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| 1939 | Governor E.D. Rivers Signs a Resolution Adopting an Official "Georgian's Creed" |
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| 1941 | The British Navy Fails in Its Effort to Capture a German Enigma Decoding Machine |
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| 1943 | Patton Arrives in Tunisia |
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| In Elkton, Maryland, an Explosion at a Weapons Factory Producing Incendiary Bombs and 20mm Shells Kills 15 Workers, Wounding 75 |
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| 1944 | The U.S. 8th Air Force Launches the First American Bombing Raid of Berlin |
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| 1952 | Ernest Hemingway Writes His Publisher Advising He Has Completed The Old Man and the Sea Which Will Be Awarded the Pulitzer Prize |
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| 8.1 Magnitude Earthquake with a 10' Tsunami Kills 62 in Japan, Destroying over 1,000 Homes |
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| In North Hollywood, California, Ronald Reagan Marries Nancy Davis |
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| 1953 | Georgia Governor Herman Talmadge Signs Legislation Requiring Public School Students to Pass Courses in Georgia and U.S. History |
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| 1954 | U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles Asks Nations of Latin America to Condemn "International Communism" |
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| 1955 | Inaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) Opens in Johannesburg |
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| 1963 | African National Congress Leader, Walter Sisulu, Is Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Protesting South Africa's Constitution Act of 1961 |
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| 1964 | Jimmy Hoffa Is Convicted of Jury Tampering |
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| 1966 | In Minnesota, a 4-day Storm Leaves 23" of Snow in Aitkin and 37" in International Falls |
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| 1968 | U.S. Launches Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 (OGO 5) |
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| 1975 | Charlie Chaplin Is Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II |
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| 1977 | 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake in Romania Kills 1,541 People. Injuring 10,500 |
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| 1978 | Chicago Daily News Publishes Its Last Issue after 103 Years |
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| 1979 | U.S. Voyager I Photo Provides First Evidence of Jupiter's Ring |
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| 1980 | Nationalist Leader Robert Mugabe Wins a Sweeping Election Victory to Become Zimbabwe's First Black Prime Minister |
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| 1982 | Bertha Wilson Is the First Woman Appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court |
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| NASA Launches Intelsat V Satellite 504 |
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| 1984 | Television Academy Management Hall of Fame Announces Its First Inductees |
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| 1985 | The EPA Announces a Virtual Ban on Leaded Gasoline |
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| 1987 | President Ronald Reagan Tells the Nation His Overtures to Iran ''Deteriorated'' into an Arms-for-Hostages Deal |
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| 1989 | Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. Announce Plans to Merge into the World's Largest Media and Entertainment Conglomerate |
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| 1990 | 6.1 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 11 People in Pakistan, Injuring 40 |
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| Space Shuttle STS 36 (Atlantis 6) Returns from 5-day Defense Mission |
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| 1991 | Iraq Releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW |
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| 1994 | Four Muslims Are Found Guilty of 1993 Bombing the New York World Trade Center |
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| Space Shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16) Is Launched for 14-day Scientific Mission |
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| 1997 | President Bill Clinton Bars Spending Federal Money on Human Cloning |
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