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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/illustrator born on this date:
LIM LEARNED |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of Carole Bayer Sager song nominated for a Grammy in 1996 (according to Hollywood Film Festival):
MONY WON |
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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 1950 movie in which Louise Beavers appeared (according to the Internet Movie Database):
HEY BALM VENUE |
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 Carole Bayer Sager Born on This Date 1944 [Hollywood Film Festival]
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 Grace Hopper [University of Pennsylvania]
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 Louise Beavers Born on This Date 1902 [What-a-Character.com]
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 Linda Chávez-Thompson [Hispanic Heritage Awards]
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 Florence Griffith Joyner
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United Nations: International Women's Day
(Observed annually on March 8 to commemorate the New York garment workers' protest of 03/08/1857) |
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Peru: San Juan de Dios
(Annual March 8 commemoration of the life of San Juan de Dios) |
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Syria: Revolution Day
(Commemoration of revolution that brought the Baath Arab Socialist Party to power: 03/08/1963) |
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| Uzbekistan: Women's Day |
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| 1859 | Kenneth Grahame (Scottish Children's Author) |
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| 1920 | Edna Miller (New Jersey-born Children's Author) |
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| 1951 | Peter Roop (Massachusetts-born Children's Author) |
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| 1965 | Robert Sabuda (Michigan-born Children's Author) |
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| 1890 | Gene Fowler (Colorado-born Journalist, Scriptwriter) |
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| 1899 | Eric Linklater (Scottish Poet) |
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| 1900 | Marcus B. Christian (Louisiana-born African-American Poet) |
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| 1917 | Leslie Fiedler (New Jersey-born Literary Critic) |
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| 1931 | John McPhee (New Jersey-born Journalist, Playwright, and Essayist) |
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| 1933 | James A. Autry (Tennessee-born Author) |
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| 1495 | Giovanni Rosso (Italian Painter, Decorator) |
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| 1867 | Homer C. Davenport (Oregon-born Political Cartoonist) |
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| 1857 | Ruggero Leoncavallo (Italian Operatic Composer) |
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| 1911 | Alan Hovhaness (Massachusetts-born Composer) |
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| 1850 | George Glenn (Texas-born African-American Traildriver) |
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| 1712 | John Fothergill (English Medical Pioneer) |
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| 1825 | Alexander Thomas Augusta (Virginia-born First African American to Head a U.S. Hospital) |
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| 1879 | Otto Hahn (German Chemist: 1944 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) |
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| 1886 | Edward Calvin Kendall (Connecticut-born Biochemist: 1950 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine) |
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| 1953 | Howard Aiken (New Jersey-born Mathematician) |
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| 1827 | John Crerar (New York City-born Railway Industrialist) |
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| 1495 | Juan de Dios (Spanish-born Catholic Saint) |
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| 1798 | Mathew Caldwell (Kentucky-born "Paul Revere of the Texas Revolution;" Namesake of Caldwell County, Texas) |
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| 1841 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (Massachusetts-born Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Justice) |
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| 1911 | Clarence Mitchell (Maryland-born African-American Attorney, Civil Rights Advocate, Lobbyist for the NAACP) |
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| 1902 | Louise Beavers (Ohio-born African-American Actress) |
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| 1923 | Cyd Charisse (Texas-born Dancer, Actress) |
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| 1940 | Susan Clark (Canadian Actress) |
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| 1943 | Lynn Redgrave (English Actress) |
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| 1945 | Micky Dolenz (Los Angeles-born Popular Musician: The Monkeys) |
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| 1947 | Carole Bayer Sager (New York City-born Popular Songwriter) |
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| 1959 | Aidan Quinn (Chicago-born Actor) |
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| 1961 | Camryn Manheim (Illinois-born Actress) |
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| 1976 | Freddie Prinze, Jr. (New Mexico-born Latin-American Actor) |
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| 1922 | Carl Furillo (Pennsylvania-born Professional Baseball Player) |
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| 1953 | Jim Rice (South Carolina-born African-American Professional Baseball Player) |
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| 1702 | William III of Orange (King of England) |
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| 1796 | William Chambers (English Architect) |
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| 1837 | Joseph Jekyll (English Author) |
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| 1869 | Hector Berlioz (French Composer) |
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| 1874 | Millard Fillmore (New York-born 13th President of the United States) |
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| 1887 | Henry Ward Beecher (Connecticut-born Religious Leader) |
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| 1888 | David Hunter Strother (West Virginia-born Journalist, Illustrator) |
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| 1898 | Edward Lloyd Thomas (Georgia-born Confederate General) |
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| 1930 | William Howard Taft (Ohio-born 27th President of the United States) |
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| Edward T. Sanford (Tennessee-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1941 | Sherwood Anderson (Ohio-born Author) |
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| 1963 | Cosby Smith Hubbard (Georgia-born Educator, Legislator) |
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| 1971 | Harold Lloyd (Nebraska-born Actor) |
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| 1977 | Moses Kottler (Lithuanian South African Sculptor) |
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| 1993 | Billy Eckstine (Pennsylvania-born African-American Popular Singer) |
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| 1999 | Joe DiMaggio (California-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 2005 | Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (Mississippi-born African-American Author) |
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| 1698 | The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Is Organized in England |
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| 1702 | Anne Is Crowned Queen of England |
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| 1715 | King Louis XIV Proclaims He Has Ended the Practice of Protestantism in France |
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| 1750 | London Earthquake Tosses People Out of Bed, Rings Church Bells |
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| 1782 | Ohio Territory Militia Begin 2-day Massacre of Delaware Indian Settlement of Gnadenhutten |
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| 1796 | Oliver Ellsworth Is Sworn in as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1801 | British and Ottoman Forces Take Control of Abukir Bay in French-occupied Egypt |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a fair morning Cold and windey, wind from the East, visited by the Greesey head & a Riarca to day, those men gave Some account of the Indians near the rockey mountains a young Indian same nation & Different Village Stole the Doughter of the Black man, he went to his Village took his horse & returned & took away his doughter Ordway: a nomber of the Savages continue bringing corn and fat dryed buffaloe meat for to Git Blacksmiths work done |
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| 1806 |
Clark: Bratten is much better this morning, his back givs him but little pain. Collins returned early in the morning, and informed us that he had killed three Elk about five miles distance on the edge of the prarie in point Adams. one of them fell in a deep pond of water and he could not git to it. the other two he butchered and Saved. he saw two large herds of Elk in that quarter. we Sent Drewyer & Jos: Field to hunt these Elk, a party was also Sent with Labiesh for the flesh of the Elk which Drewyer and himself had killd up the Netul, they returned with it in the evening. Shields, R. Field and Frasure returned this evening from the Kilhawanackkle unsuccessfull haveing Seen no Elk. Willard is yet complaining and is low Spirited. |
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| 1831 | Mexican Officials Appoint Manuel Victoria as Governor of California |
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| 1836 | Creoles and Americans Divide New Orleans into Three Independent Municipalities |
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| 1855 | The London Is the First Locomotive to Cross the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge |
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| 1857 | Dakota-Sioux Indians Attack Settlements Around Iowa's Spirit Lake, Killing 33 |
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| Female Garment & Textile Workers March in New York City |
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| 1858 | Douglas County Is Formed, Honoring Stephen A. Douglas, Who Advocated Minnesota's Statehood |
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| 1860 | Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln Campaigns in Woonsocket, Rhode Island |
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| Brashear (Morgan City), Louisiana Is Incorporated |
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| The Alaskan State Legislature Passes a Bill Permitting Non-Profit Organizations to Operate Games of Chance |
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| 1861 | President Lincoln Writes Congressman Colfax of Indiana Why He Was Not Chosen for the Cabinet |
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| 1862 | The Confederates Ironclad Merrimac Destroys Two Federal Ships |
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| U.S.S. Sagamore Captures the Sloop Enterprise Off the Florida Coast |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln Meets General Grant Face to Face for the First Time |
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| President Lincoln Receives Report New Hampshire Elections Have Gone Solidly to Union Ticket |
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| 1869 | Michigan Ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment Guaranteeing Former Slaves the Right to Vote |
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| 1870 | Sophia Smith Is the First Woman to Endow a College for Women |
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| 1880 | President Hayes Declares U.S. Must Control a Canal in Panamá |
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| 1884 | Susan B. Anthony Addresses Congress in Support of Suffrage |
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| 1888 | Ruby City Is Established as the First County Seat of Okanogan County, Washington |
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| 1889 | The Westra Posten Is Published as Seattle's First Swedish Newspaper |
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| 1892 | Heavy Snow in Duluth, Minnesota Forces Some Residents to Exit Their Homes Via Second Story Windows |
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| 1893 | Emmet Dalton Begins Life Sentence in the Kansas State Penitentiary |
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| 1894 | New York Passes the First State Law Requiring Dog Licenses |
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| 1896 | Volunteers of America Forms |
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| 1909 | Nine Agents of the Secret Service Transfer to Begin the FBI |
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| 49 People Are Killed and 600 Injured When a F-4 Tornado Hits Brinkley, Arkansas |
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| 1910 | International Women's Day Proclaimed at the Helsinki Women's Conference |
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| 1913 | The IRS Begins Accepting the First Federal Income Tax Payments |
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| 1915 | Legislation Calling for Full Suffrage for Women Fails in the Delaware House |
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| The Indiana State Legislature Creates the Indiana Historical Commission to Oversee Observance of the State's 1916 Centennial |
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| 1917 | U.S. Senate Limits Filibusters by Adopting the Cloture Rule |
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| Russia's February (old style calendar) Revolution Begins |
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| 1920 | Denmark, Cuba and Switzerland Join the League of Nations |
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| The U.S. Supreme Court Finds in Minnesota's Favor in a Boundary Squabble with Wisconsin over Control of the Duluth Harbor |
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| 1924 | Coal Mine Explosion Kills 172 at Castle Gate, Utah |
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| 1926 | The Size of Washington's Sand Point Naval Air Station Is Tripled |
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| 1933 | A Dust Storm Covers the State of Minnesota |
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| 1935 | Thomas Wolfe Publishes His Second Novel Of Time and the River |
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| 1936 | The First Stock Car Race Is Held at Daytona, Florida |
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| 1942 | Japanese Land Troops in New Guinea To Establish a Base for Operations Against Australia |
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| Dutch Forces Surrender to the Japanese on the Island of Java |
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| Construction Begins on the ALCAN Highway through Canada to Alaska |
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| 1945 | German V2 Rocket Hits Methodist Church in Greenwich, England, Killing 5 |
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| The State of Georgia Creates a State Department of Veterans Service to Assist Returning Veterans |
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| 1946 | Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower Address Virginia's General Assembly |
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| The Bell Model 47 Is the First Helicopter Certified for Commercial Use |
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| 1947 | Washington State Legislature Creates a Fact-finding Committee on Un-American Activities |
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| 1948 | U.S. Supreme Court Rules Religious Instruction in Public Schools Is Unconstitutional |
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| 1949 | Channel 5, WAGA-TV, Begins Broadcasting as Atlanta's CBS Affiliate |
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| 1950 | In the U.S. Senate, the Tydings Committee Begins Investigating Senator McCarthy's Allegations of Communist Activities within the U.S. Government |
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| British Car Manufacturer, Rover, Road Tests a Gas Turbine Car |
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| 1957 | Israeli Troops Leave Egypt: Suez Canal Reopens |
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| 1959 | Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx Appear Together on Television for the Final Time |
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| 1963 | Military Coup Brings Baath Arab Socialist Party into Power in Syria |
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| 1964 | Malcolm X Announces His Break with the Nation of Islam |
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| 1965 | First U.S. Combat Troops (3,500 Marines) Arrive in Vietnam |
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| 1967 | NASA Launches OSO-3 Satellite to Perform Solar Physics Experiments Above the Atmosphere |
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| 1970 | 100 Native Americans Attempt to Claim Part of Seattle's Fort Lawton for a Cultural Center |
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| 1971 | British Postal Workers End Seven-week Walkout |
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| Joe Frazier Defeats Muhammad Ali to Remain Heavyweight Boxing Champion |
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| 1972 | Bomb Explodes in the Cockpit of a TWA Boeing 707 at the Las Vegas Airport |
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| 1976 | The Largest Meteorite (1,770 kg) in Recorded History Falls to Earth over Jilin, China |
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| 1977 | In Penick v. Columbus Board of Ed, Circuit Court Judge Robert Duncan Rules That the Columbus, Ohio City Schools Are Segregated |
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| 1982 | U.S. Accuses USSR of Poison/Chemical Weapons in Afghanistan |
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| 1983 | President Reagan Calls the Soviet Union the "Evil Empire" |
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| U.S. House Endorses Nuclear Weapons Freeze with Soviets |
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| 1985 | Beirut Car Bomb Kills 45 |
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| Critically-ill Man Dies After Being Kept Alive for 11 Hours by a Mechanical Heart |
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| The Film, Mask, Premieres |
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| 1986 | Four French TV Crew Members Abducted in West Beirut Lebanon |
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| Japan's Suisei Probe Encounters Comet Halley at 151,000 km on the Sunward Side |
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| 1991 | 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered in Eastern Siberia |
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| 1999 | Supreme Court Refuses to Review Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City Bombing Conviction |
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| 2001 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-102) on Space Station Assembly Mission |
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| Divers Raise the Wreckage of Donald Campbell's Speedboat, Bluebird, from Lake Bottom |
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