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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 title of a book written by Joanne Rocklin (according to her Scholastic booklist):
ROUEN YOYO FLYERS
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Use all of these letters to spell the name of a company with which Denyce Graves has performed her signature roles of Carmen and Samson et Dalia (according to her official website):
SEPARATE NOTHING HOW |
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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 a dancer in the opening night cast of Bells Are Ringing (according to the Internet Broadway Database):
PARK TRAIT
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Albania: Dita e Mësuesve (National Teachers' Day)
(Coincides with the birth date of St. Thomas Aquinas, patron saint of catholic students) |
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California: Arbor Day
(Observed on this date since 1909 to commemorate the birth date of Luther Burbank: 03/07/1849) |
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| 1946 | Joanne Rocklin (Canadian Children's Author) |
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| 1785 | Alessandro Manzoni (Italian Poet) |
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| 1889 | Ben Ames Williams (Mississippi-born Novelist and Short Story Writer) |
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| 1924 | Kobe Abe (Japanese Playwright) |
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| 1936 | Georges Perec (French Author) |
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| 1952 | William Boyd (Ghanian Novelist) |
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| 1958 | Rick Bass (Texas-born Fiction and Nature Writer) |
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| 1964 | Bret Easton Ellis (Los Angeles-born Novelist) |
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| 1802 | Edwin Henry Landseer (English Painter, Sculptor) |
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| 1872 | Piet Mondrian (Dutch Artist) |
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| 1875 | Maurice Ravel (French Composer) |
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| 1964 | Denyce Graves (Washington, D.C.-born African-American Operatic Mezzo-Soprano) |
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| 1765 | Joseph Nicéphore Niepce (French Lithographer Who Took the World's First Photograph) |
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| 1787 | Henry Draper (New York City-born Astronomer, Photographer) |
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| 1792 | John Herschel (English Mathematician, Astronomer) |
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| 1811 | Increase Allen Lapham (New York-born Naturalist, Educator, Author; Chief Geologist for Wisconsin: 1873 - 1875) |
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| 1845 | Daniel David Palmer (Canadian Who Founded Chiropractics) |
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| 1849 | Luther Burbank (Massachusetts-born Horticulturist) |
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| 1857 | Julius Wagner-Jauregg (Austrian Psychiatrist, Neurologist) |
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| 1938 | Albert Fert (French Physicist; 2007 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1942 | Michael Eisner (New York-born Business Leader: Former President of Walt Disney) |
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| 1827 | Henry DeLamar Clayton (Georgia-born Confederate General) |
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| 1707 | Stephen Hopkins (Rhode Island-born Signer of the Declaration of Independence) |
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| 1850 | Tomás Garrigue Masaryk (Founder and First President of Czechoslovakia) |
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| 1857 | Helen Parkhurst (Wisconsin-born Educator, Founder of the Dalton Plan) |
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| 1903 | Joseph Allen Frear, Jr. (Delaware Member of the U.S. Senate) |
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| 1908 | Oseola McCarty (Mississippi-born African-American Laundry Women Philanthropist) |
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| 1919 | Juanita Kidd Stout (Oklahoma-born First African-American Woman to Serve on a State Supreme Court (PA)) |
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| 1908 | Anna Magnani (Italian Actress) |
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| 1934 | Willard Scott (Virginia-born Television Personality: The Original Ronald McDonald) |
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| 1940 | Daniel J. Travanti (Wisconsin-born Actor) |
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| 1938 | Janet Guthrie (Iowa-born Sports Car Driver) |
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| 1950 | Franco Harris (New Jersey-born African-American Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1952 | Lynn Swann (Tennessee-born African-American Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1960 | Joe Carter (Oklahoma-born African-American Professional Baseball Player) |
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| Ivan Lendl (Czech Member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame) |
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| 1965 | Jesper Bo Parnevik (Swedish Professional Golfer) |
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| 1274 | Thomas Aquinas (Italian Philosopher, Religious Leader) |
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| 1767 | Jean Baptiste de Bienville (French Governor of the Louisiana Colony) |
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| 1810 | Lord Collingwood (English Admiral) |
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| 1830 | Jacques Villere (Former Governor of Louisiana) |
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| 1985 | Robert Woodruff (Georgia-born Former CEO of Coca-Cola) |
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| 1986 | Jacob Javits (New York City-born Member of the U.S. Senate) |
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| 1997 | Norman Adrian de Bruyne (English Inventor of Glue and Adhesives) |
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| 1999 | Stanley Kubrick (New York City-born Filmmaker) |
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| Bobby Hendricks (South African Saxophonist) |
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| 2006 | Gordon Parks (Kansas-born African-American Photographer/Filmmaker/Artist/Musician/Writer) |
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| 1530 | Pope Clement VII Rejects Henry VIII's Request to Divorce Catherine of Aragon |
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| 1539 | Fray Marcos de Niza and Estevan the Moor Leave Culiacan, Mexico to Explore New Mexico |
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| 1638 | Anne Hutchinson and 19 Other Exiles from Massachusetts Bay Colony Settle in Rhode Island |
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| 1734 | Salzburgers (Persecuted Protestants from Salzburg) Arrive in Charles Town, South Carolina |
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| 1778 | Captain James Cook First Sights Oregon Coast at Cape Foul Weather |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a little Cloudy and windey N E. the Coal visited us with a Sick child, to whome I gave Some of rushes Pills— Shabounar returned this evening from the Gross Vintres & informed that all the nation had returned from the hunting—
he our menetarre interpeter had received a present from Mr. Chaboilleiz of the N. W. Company of the following articles 3 Brace [1] of Cloath 1 Brace of Scarlet a par Corduroy Overalls Ordway: clear but Some colder than it has been for Several days past. Some of the perogue men who came to the Fort last night for provisions returned back this morning. two men went up to the villages to day. |
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| 1806 |
Clark: The wind was So high that Commowol did not leave us untill late this evening. Drewyer & Labiesh returned at Sunset haveing killed one Elk only. they report that there are Some Scattering mail Elk in the neighbourhood of the place they killed this one or about 5 miles up the Netul river on the west Side—. Bratten is much worst to day he complains of a violent pain in the Small of his back, and is unable in consequence of it to Set up. we gave him one of our flanel Shirts. I applied a bandage of flanel to the part and rubed it well with Some volatile linniment which was prepared with Sperits of wine, camphire, Sastile Soap, and a little laudinum. he felt himself better in the evening at which time I repeated the linnement and bathed his feet, to restore circulation which he complaind of in that part. John Shields Reubin Fields & Robert frasure measured 2 trees of the fur kind one 37 feet around, appears sound, has but fiew limbs for 200 feet it is East of the Netul abt 280 feet high. |
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| 1835 | Sheriff Puts Abraham Lincoln's Surveying Tools and Horse Up for Sale in New Salem, Illinois |
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| 1848 | A Train Carrying the Remains of Former President John Quincy Adams Passes through Wilmington, Delaware |
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| 1849 | Abraham Lincoln Argues His First Case Before the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1850 | Daniel Webster's Landmark Speech Urges Slavery Compromise |
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| In Ohio, Urbana University Is Founded |
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| 1857 | Baseball Rules That 9 Innings Constitute an Official Baseball Game, Not 9 Runs |
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| 1859 | U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney Overrules the Wisconsin Supreme Court by Upholding the Federal Fugitive Slave Law |
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| 1860 | Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln Campaigns in Meriden, Connecticut |
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| 1861 | President Lincoln Addresses the Foreign Diplomatic Corps |
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| Georgia's Secession Convention Reconvenes in Savannah to Adopt New State Constitution |
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| 1862 | Union Forces Defeat the Confederates at Pea Ridge, Arkansas |
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| President Lincoln and General McClellan Discuss Strategy for Capture of Richmond, Virginia |
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| President Lincoln Discusses the Appointment of a Commissioner for Hawaii |
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| President Lincoln Transmits to Congress an Indian Treaty Signed in Paola, Kansas |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln Establishes the Starting Point of Union Pacific Railroad on Iowa's Western Boundary |
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| President Lincoln Attends Edwin Booth's Performance in "The Fool's Revenge" at Grover's Theatre |
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| 1865 | President Lincoln Sends a Congressional Resolution of Gratitude to General Grant |
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| 1866 | Georgia's General Assembly Appoints a Committee to Develop a Common School System |
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| U. S. Congress Approves the Transfer of Berkeley and Jefferson Counties from Virginia to West Virginia |
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| 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell Receives Patent #174,465 for the Telephone |
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| 1877 | First Train Runs on the Seattle & Walla Walla Railroad Line from Seattle to Renton, Washington |
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| 1882 | The Minnesota State Butter and Cheese Association Is Organized in Rochester |
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| 1883 | Seattle, Washington's First Telephone System Begins Operation with 90 Subscribers |
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| 1885 | Kansas Closes Border to Texas Cattle Drives from Mar 1 - Dec 1 |
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| 1888 | The First Electric Trolley in Wilmington, Delaware Makes Its First Run |
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| 1889 | Arkansas Accepts Federal Funding for Establishment of Agricultural Experiment Stations |
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| 1896 | Gilbert & Sullivan's Last Operetta, "The Grand Duke," Opens at London's Savoy Theater |
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| 1901 | The Texas Legislature Proclaims the Bluebonnet the State Flower |
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| 1902 | Boers Capture a British General and 600 Troops at Battle of Tweebosch |
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| 1909 | California Celebrates the State's First Arbor Day in Commemoration of the Birth Date of Horticulturalist Luther Burbank |
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| 1911 | Seattle Voters Approve Purchase of Rainier Valley Interurban |
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| 1912 | Roald Amundsen Cables His Party Reached the South Pole in December |
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| 1914 | Ring Lardner Publishes His First Story "A Busher's Letters Home," in the Saturday Evening Post |
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| 1916 | Two German Manufacturers Merge to Form What Will Be BMW |
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| 1918 | Germany and White Finns Sign Treaty Guaranteeing German Assistance in the Finnish Civil War. |
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| 1923 | Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods..." First Published in The New Republic |
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| 1926 | First Successful Transatlantic Radio Telephone Call Placed between New York City and London |
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| 1927 | 7.9 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 3,020 in Tango, Japan |
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| 1929 | 7.8 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered on Alaska's Fox Islands |
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| Earthquake Kills 1 in El Paso, Texas |
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| 1932 | Communist Party March Against the Ford Motor Company Turns Violent |
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| 1935 | Malcolm Campbell Sets a World Speed Record of 276 mph at Daytona Beach, Florida |
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| 1936 | Hitler Sends Troops into the Rhineland Violating Treaty of Versailles |
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| 1939 | Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians First Record "Auld Lang Syne" |
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| 1941 | 50,000 British Troops Land in Greece |
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| 1942 | Japanese Forces Capture Rangoon, Burma |
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| Port of Seattle Agrees to Build New Regional Airport |
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| 1945 | U.S. 9th Armored Division Crosses the Rhine at Remagen |
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| U.S. Forces Complete the Capture of the First Major German City, Cologne |
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| German V2 Rocket Lands in Greenwich, England, Injuring 94, Destroying 20 Homes |
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| 1950 | Soviet Union Denies Klaus Fuchs Served As Its Spy |
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| 1951 | In Detroit, Ezzard Charles Defeats Jersey Joe Walcott to Retain the World Heavyweight Championship |
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| 1955 | Peter Pan First Broadway Play to Be Televised in Color |
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| 1956 | In Virginia, the State's Constitution Is Amended to Permit the Payment of Public Funds to Private, Segregated Schools |
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| 1958 | Ground Is Broken for the Globe of the Great Southwest |
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| 1959 | Bells Are Ringing Closes in New York (924 performances) |
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| 1960 | William Faulkner's Play "Tomorrow" Is Broadcast by CBS-TV |
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| 1962 | NASA Launches First Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO-1) |
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| 1964 | At a Roman Parish Church, Pope Paul VI Celebrates Mass in Italian Instead of Latin |
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| 1965 | Civil Rights Marchers Are Attacked on the Edmund Pettis Bridge Outside of Selma, Alabama |
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| 1966 | U.S. Conducts 20kT Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada |
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| 6.75 Magnitude Earthquake Causes Considerable Damage in Northeastern China |
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| 1969 | Golda Meir Has Been Elected the First Female Prime Minister of Israel |
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| 50,000 Soviets Protest at the Chinese Embassy in Moscow |
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| USSR Conducts 20-150kT Underground Nuclear Test in Kazakhstan |
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| 1971 | Egypt Refuses to Renew Suez Cease Fire |
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| 1973 | Sheikh Mujib Rahman Wins Landslide Victory in Bangladesh's First General Elections |
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| 1974 | Duke University Anthropologists Locate the U.S. Civil War Ship, Monitor |
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| 1975 | Senate Revises Votes Needed to Stop Filibuster (2/3 to 60) |
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| U.S. Conducts 20-200kT Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada |
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| 1977 | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Meets President Carter |
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| 1979 | "Georgia on my Mind" Is Adopted as the Official State Song by the State's General Assembly |
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| 1982 | The Salvador Dali Museum Opens in St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| 1988 | In Alaska, Vern Tejas of Anchorage Completes the First Solo Ascent of Mt. McKinley |
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| Honda Ships the First American-built Japanese Cars from Its Ohio Plant to Japan |
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| 1989 | Chinese Police Open Fire on Tibetan Demonstrators in Lhasa, Killing 12 |
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| 1991 | Federal Judge Blocks Timber Sales in National Forests to Protect the Northern Spotted Owl |
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| 1994 | David Kpomakpor Is Appointed Head of Liberia's National Transitional Government |
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| U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Parodies Do Not Violate Copyright |
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| 1995 | New York Is 38th State to Adopt the Death Penalty |
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| 1996 | Hubble Telescope Provides First Surface Photos of Pluto |
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| 2010 | Kathryn Bigelow Is the First Woman to Receive the Academy Award for Best Director ("The Hurt Locker") |
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