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 The Alamo |
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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 children's author or illustrator who was born on this date:
AEGEAN THE HULK |
Use all of these letters to spell the name of an Indian tribe recorded by Frances Densmore (according to Minnesota State University):
MAD ANN |
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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 poem from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese (according to the University of Toronto):
HEAVIER LEAFLET FOIL |
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Ghana: Independence Day
(Commemoration of the end of British rule: 03/06/1957) |
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Texas: Alamo Day
(Remembrance of Mexico's capture of the Alamo: 03/06/1836) |
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| 1949 | Kathleen Hague (California-born Children's Author) |
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| Thacher Hurd (Vermont-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1959 | Chris Raschka (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1619 | Savien Cyrano de Bergerac (French Author) |
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| 1806 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (English Poet) |
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| 1885 | Ring (Ringgold Wilmer) Lardner, Sr. (Michigan-born Writer) |
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| 1928 | Gabriel García Márquez |
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| 1954 | Wang Anyi (Chinese Novelist and Short-Story Writer) |
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| 1475 | Michelangelo (Italian Artist) |
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| 1924 | Sarah Caldwell (Missouri-born Operatic Conductor) |
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| 1930 | Lorin Maazel (French Classical Conductor) |
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| 1932 | John Philip Sousa (Washington, D.C.-born Composer, Conductor) |
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| 1944 | Kiri Te Kanawa (New Zealand-born Operatic Soprano) |
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| 1948 | Stephen Schwartz (New York City-born Composer, Lyricist) |
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| 1787 | Joseph von Fraunhofer (German Physicist) |
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| 1927 | Gordon Cooper (Oklahoma-born Astronaut) |
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| 1831 | Phil Sheridan (New York-born Union General) |
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| 1926 | Alan Greenspan (New York-born Chairman of U.S. Federal Reserve Board) |
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| 1724 | Henry Laurens (South Carolina-born Member of the Continental Congress) |
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| 1797 | Gerrit Smith (New York-born Philanthropist, Abolitionist) |
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| 1816 | Elbert English (Alabama-born Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court) |
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| 1828 | Johnson Newlon Camden (West Virginia-born Industrialist, U.S. Senator) |
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| 1838 | Benjamin William Arnett, Jr. (Pennsylvania-born African-American Religious, Political and Educational Leader) |
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| 1863 | Belle Kearney (Mississippi-born Women's Suffragist) |
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| 1936 | Marion Barry (Mississippi-born African-American Mayor of Washington, D.C.) |
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| 1908 | Lou Costello (New Jersey-born Comedic Actor) |
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| 1923 | Ed McMahon (Detroit-born Television Personality: Tonight Show with Johnny Carson) |
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| 1927 | Wes Montgomery (Indiana-born African-American Jazz Guitarist) |
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| 1937 | Merle Haggard (California-born Country & Western Performer) |
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| 1947 | Rob Reiner (New York City-born Actor, Writer, Director) |
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| 1959 | Tom Arnold (Iowa-born Comedic Actor) |
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| 1969 | Amy Pietz (Wisconsin-born Actress) |
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| 1900 | Lefty Grove (Maryland-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1941 | Willie Stargell (Oklahoma-born African-American Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1947 | Dick Fosbury (Oregon-born Member of the Track & Field Hall of Fame) |
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| 1966 | Maurice Ashley (Jamaican-born African-American Chess Grand Master) |
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| 1972 | Shaquille O'Neal (New Jersey-born African-American Professional Basketball Player) |
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| 1836 | Jim Bowie (Kentucky-born Frontiersman: Defender of the Alamo) |
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| Davy Crockett (Tennessee-born Frontiersman: Defender of the Alamo) |
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| William Barret Travis (South Carolina-born Commander of Texas Troops at the Alamo) |
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| 1844 | Gabriel Duvall (Maryland-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1888 | Louisa May Alcott (Pennsylvania-born Author) |
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| 1900 | Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (German Automotive Pioneer) |
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| 1929 | David Buick (Scottish-American Automotive Pioneer) |
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| 1932 | John Philip Sousa (Washington, D.C.-born Composer, Stars and Stripes Forever) |
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| 1933 | Anton Cermak (Czech-born Mayor of Chicago: Gunshot Wounds Suffered in Attempted Assassination of FDR) |
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| 1935 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (Massachusetts-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1964 | Paul I, King of Greece |
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| 1967 | Nelson Eddy (Rhode Island-born Popular Singer) |
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| 1973 | Pearl S. Buck (American Author) |
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| 1982 | Ayn Rand (Russian-American Author) |
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| 1986 | Georgia O'Keeffe (New Mexico-born Artist) |
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| 2005 | Hans Bethe (German Astrophysicist) |
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| 2006 | Kirby Puckett (Chicago-born African-American Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1521 | Magellan Lands at Guam |
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| 1788 | 22 British (15 convicts) Arrive to Settle Norfolk Island |
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| 1806 |
 Clark: This morning, the fishing and hunting party's Set out agreeably to their instructions given them last evening. At 11 a. m. we were visited by Commowoll and two boys Sons of his. he presented us with Some Anchovies which had been well Cured in their manner, we found them excellent. they were very acceptable perticularly at this moment. we gave the old mans Sones a twisted wire to ware about his neck, and I gave him a par of old glovs which he was much pleased with. this we have found much the most friendly and decent Indian that we have met with in this neighbourhood. Hall had his foot and ankle much injured yesterday by the fall of a log which he had on his Sholder; the bones are fortunately not broken, I expect he will be able to walk again Shortly. Bratten is now weaker than any of the convalessants, and complains verry much of his back, all of them recovering Slowly in consequence of the want of proper diet, which we have it not in our power to precure.— |
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| 1808 | The First Collegiate Orchestra Is Formed At Harvard |
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| 1819 | In McCulloch v. Maryland U.S. Supreme Court Rules Federal Government Is Exempt from State Taxes |
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| 1820 | Missouri Enabling Act Forbids Creation of Northern Slave States |
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| 1830 | Abraham Lincoln's Family Crosses the Wabash River on Its Move from Indiana to Illinois |
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| 1831 | Edgar Allan Poe Is Dismissed from the Military Academy at West Point for Refusing to Obey Orders |
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| 1834 | The Canadian City of York Is Incorporated As Toronto |
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| 1836 | The Alamo Falls to Mexican Troops |
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| Darwin's HMS Beagle Reaches King George's Sound, Australia |
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| Caldwell Parish, Louisiana Is Created |
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| 1837 | Florida's Seminole Chiefs Agree to Cease Hostilities and to Relocate in Oklahoma |
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne Publishes Twice Told Tales, Stories Previously Published in Magazines |
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| 1847 | The 900-Man First Regiment of New York Volunteers Lands in San Francisco, California |
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| 1848 | Abraham Lincoln Sends Letter of His Family History to Solomon Lincoln |
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| 1851 | Manitowoc, Wisconsin Is Chartered as a Village |
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| 1852 | In Minnesota, Hennepin County Is Formed and Named for Franciscan Missionary Louis Hennepin |
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| 1853 | Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata Opens in Venice |
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| 1856 | Towns County, Georgia Is Created as the State's 118th County |
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| 1857 | In Dred Scott v Standford, U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Slaves Are Not Citizens |
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| 1860 | Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln Campaigns in New Haven, Connecticut |
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| 1861 | President Abraham Lincoln Holds His First Cabinet Meeting, Receives Delegations from Several States |
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| 1862 | Lincoln Recommends to Congress Compensation for States Willing to Gradually Emancipate Slaves |
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| At New York's Cooper Institute, James A. Hamilton, Son of Alexander Hamilton, Presides at a Meeting Supporting Emancipation |
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| U.S.S. Pursuit Captures the Schooner Anna Belle Off Coast of Apalachicola, Florida |
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| Wisconsin's Fourth Cavalry Embarks to Join the "Army of the Gulf" Below New Orleans |
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| Episcopal Bishop Henry B. Whipple Writes a Letter to President Abraham Lincoln on Behalf of the Indians of Minnesota |
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| 1865 | President Lincoln Attends Inauguration Ball at the Patent Office |
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| Federal Troops Fail in Attempt to Capture Tallahassee, Florida |
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| 1867 | General Philip Sheridan Assumes Command of the Fifth Military District (Louisiana and Texas) |
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| 1868 | In Minnesota, Grant, Lyon, and Wilkin Counties Are Formed; Each Named for an Officer of the Union Army |
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| 1871 | In Minnesota, Lac qui Parle County and Yellow Medicine County Are Formed |
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| 1882 | Virginia State University Is Chartered by the State Legislature |
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| 1886 | 9,000 Railroad Workers Strike Against the Southwestern Railroad |
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| 1896 | Charles B. King Drives the First Automobile in Detroit |
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| 1903 | In Wisconsin, Work Commences on the Janesville Public Library, Financed Primarily by a $30,000 Grant from Andrew Carnegie |
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| 1904 | Japanese Fleet Bombards Vladivostok, Russia |
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| 1922 | The Oregon Home Protective League Is Organized with the Purpose of Abolishing Dancing in School Buildings |
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| 1924 | Seattle's Herman Horowitz Begins Publication of The Jewish Transcript |
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| 1929 | Turkey & Bulgaria Sign Friendship Treaty |
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| 1930 | Clarence Birdseye Begins Test Marketing Prepackaged Frozen Food in Springfield, Massachusetts |
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| 1933 | A Nationwide 4-day Bank Holiday Begins as Declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| Production of Silver Dollar Coins Is Halted |
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| Chicago Mayor, Anton Cermak, Dies of Gunshot Wounds Suffered in Attempted Assassination of FDR |
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| 1939 | Edgehill, Georgia Is Incorporated |
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| 1942 | John Steinbeck's Novel, The Moon Is Down , Is Published by Viking Press |
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| 1944 | Heavy Bombers Stage the First American Raid on Berlin |
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| Texas Medal of Honor Winner, John Cary Morgan, Is Shot Down over Berlin |
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| 1945 | Georgia Creates the Veterans Resettlement Corporation to Help War Veterans Purchase Homes, Farms and Business Property |
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| 1946 | The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Rules That Primus E. King, an African American, May Vote in the Georgia Democratic Primary |
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| 1951 | The Espionage Trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Begins |
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| 1953 | Georgi Malenkov Is Named to Succeed Josef Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union |
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| 1957 | Former British Colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland Unite as the Independent State of Ghana |
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| 1962 | U.S. Conducts Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada |
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| 60 mph Winds Hit Delaware Beaches Destroying Homes and a Boardwalk, Killing 7 People |
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| 1964 | Constantine Succeeds His Father, Paul I, as King of Greece |
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| Elijah Muhammad Renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali |
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| 1970 | British Announce Ban on Importation of Domestic Pets Following Rabies Case |
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| Beatles Release "Let it Be" in UK |
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| 1973 | In Alaska, Don Young Is Elected to Replace U.S. Representative Nick Begich, Who Died in a Plane Accident |
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| 1974 | British Coal Workers End Four-Week Strike Following 35% Pay Increase |
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| 1975 | Iran and Iraq Sign the Algiers Accord, Settling Border Dispute |
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| Tennessee Williams' Kingdom of Earth Is Performed at Princeton's McCarter Theatre |
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| 1979 | Remains of Kurdish Leader Mustafa Barzani Are Buried in Iran |
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| 1981 | Walter Cronkite Retires from the CBS Evening News |
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| France Conducts 5kT Underground Nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
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| 1982 | F W de Klerk Becomes Leader of the National Party (NP) in South Africa's Transvaal Province |
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| 1983 | Helmut Kohl Is Chancellor of West Germany |
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| 1986 | NASA's Vega-1 Satellite Makes a Flyby of Halley's Comet |
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| 1987 | British Channel Ferry 'Herald of Free Enterprise' Capsizes Leaving Zeebrugge, Belgium: 180 Die |
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| 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Leaves 1,000 Dead, 4,000 Missing, 20,000 Homeless in Colombia & Ecuador |
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| Excavation Begins on Seattle, Washington's Underground Metro Tunnel |
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| 1988 | 7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Damages Ships, Creates Small Tsunami in Gulf of Alaska |
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| 1990 | Russian Parliament Approves First Free Enterprise in 70 Years |
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| Coup Attempt Fails to Depose Afghanistan President Najibullah |
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| Jennifer Capriati (13 yrs 11 m) Is the Youngest Professional Tennis Tournament Finalist |
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| 1992 | PC's Around the World Are Stricken with the Michelangelo Virus |
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| 1993 | Hundreds Dies in Battle Between Unita Rebels and Angolan Government Forces |
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| 1994 | First Women Are Assigned to Permanent Duty on U.S. Combat Ship |
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| 1997 | Queen Elizabeth Opens the Official Royal Website of the British Monarchy |
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| 2000 | After More Than a Century of Evening Publication, The Seattle Times Moves to a Morning Edition |
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| Duluth, Minnesota Is the First City in the U.S. to Ban the Sale of Mercury Thermometers |
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