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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
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  Use all of these letters to spell the name of a political or social leader born on this date.
PICK ELM BALM
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Use all of these letters to spell the name of a magazine with which Clare Boothe Luce was associated (according to PBS):
FIT VAIN RAY |
(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 work by Hallie Quinn Brown (according to the University of Minnesota):
TY SOLD FEATHER MALT
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Burma/Myanmar: Dry Season Celebration
(Annual March 10 observance) |
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| 1920 | Jack Kent (Iowa-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1948 | Ilene Cooper (Chicago-born Children's Author) |
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| 1772 | Friedrich von Schlegel (German Author) |
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| 1858 | Henry W. Fowler (English Author of the Dictionary of Modern English Usage) |
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| 1903 | Clare Boothe Luce (New York City-born Playwright, Diplomat) |
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| 1920 | Boris Vian (French Playwright) |
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| 1934 | John Rechy (Texas-born Novelist) |
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| 1940 | David Rabe (Iowa-born Playwright) |
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| 1839 | Dudley Buck (Connecticut-born Composer) |
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| 1903 | Bix Beiderbecke (Iowa-born Composer, Jazz Cornetist) |
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| 1961 | Laurel Blair Salton Clark (Iowa-born Astronaut Aboard the Columbia Disaster) |
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| 1762 | Jeremias Benjamin Richter (German Chemist) |
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| 1858 | Marshall B. Lloyd (Minnesota-born Inventor, Businessman) |
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| 1928 | James Earl Ray (Illinois-born Assassin of Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr.) |
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| 1957 | Osama bin Laden (Saudi Arabian Terrorist) |
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| 1850 | Hallie Quinn Brown Pennsylvania-born African-American Educator, Lecturer, Writer) |
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| 1867 | Lillian Wald (Ohio-born Nurse, Anti-War Activist) |
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| 1909 | LeRoy Collins (33rd Governor of Florida ) |
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| 1947 | Kim Campbell (First Female Prime Minister of Canada) |
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| 1964 | Prince Edward of England |
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| 1920 | Kenneth Burns (Georgia-born Musician; Jethro of "Homer and Jethro") |
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| 1940 | Chuck Norris (Oklahoma-born Actor) |
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| 1958 | Sharon Stone (Pennsylvania-born Actress) |
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| 1964 | Jasmine Guy (Massachusetts-born African-American Actress) |
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| 1966 | Edie Brickell (Texas-born Singer, Songwriter) |
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| 1977 | Shannon Miller (Missouri-born Gymnast; Olympic Gold Medalist) |
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| 1792 | John Stuart (Earl of Bute, Advisor to King George III of England) |
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| 1861 | Taras Shevchenko (Poet Laureate of Ukraine) |
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| 1865 | William H.C. Whiting (Mississippi-born Confederate General; Died in Federal Prison) |
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| 1890 | Juliet Opie Hopkins (Virginia-born Superintendent of Confederate Civil War Hospitals) |
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| 1913 | Harriet Tubman (Maryland-born African-American Conductor on the Underground Railroad) |
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| 1921 | Francis Upton (Massachusetts-born Mathematician, Inventor) |
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| 1948 | Jan Masaryk (Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister) |
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| Zelda Fitzgerald (Alabama-born Wife of American Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald) |
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| 1953 | Alexander Groesbeck (3-time Governor of Michigan) |
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| 1985 | Konstantin U. Chernenko (Russian-born Leader of the Soviet Union) |
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| 1988 | Andy Gibb (Popular English Musician; Member of "The BGs") |
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| 1991 | Etheridge Knight (Mississippi-born African-American Poet) |
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| 1302 | Italian Poet, Dante Alighieri, Is Sentenced to be Burned to Death - a Fate He Avoids by Accepting Life Exile |
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| 1496 | Columbus Ends Second Visit West, Setting Sail from Hispaniola for Spain |
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| 1521 | Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, Orders the Writings of Martin Luther to be Burned |
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| 1628 | Virginia's First General Assembly Authorized by the King Convenes in Jamestown |
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| 1629 | King Charles I Dissolves British Parliament, Not to Be Called Back for 11 Years |
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| 1681 | William Penn, Receives a Charter from Charles II Making Him Sole Proprietor of What Will Be Pennsylvania |
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| 1734 | Salzburgers (Persecuted Protestants from Salzburg) Reach Georgia's Savannah River |
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| 1748 | British Slave Ship Captain, John Newton, Is Converted to Christianity - Will Write "Amazing Grace" |
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| 1785 | Thomas Jefferson Appointed Minister to France, Succeeding Benjamin Franklin |
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| 1804 | The Upper Louisiana Territory Is Formally Transferred from France to the United States in a Ceremony in St. Louis |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a Cloudy Cold and windey morning wind from the North— a Cold winday Day. we are visited by the Black mockersons, Chief of the 2d Manetarre Village and the Chief of the Shoeman Village those Chiefs Stayed all day and the latter all night and gave us many Strang accounts of his nation &c this Little tribe or band of Menitaraies Call themselves Ah-nah-hâ-way or people whose village is on the hill. nation formerleyed lived about 30 miles below this but beeing oppressed by the Assinniboins & Sous were Compelled to move 5 miles near the Minitaries, where, the Assinniboins Killed the most of them those remaining built a village verry near to the Minitarries at the mouth of Knife R where they now live and Can raise about 50 men, they are intermixed with the Mandans & Minatariers— the Mandans formerly lived in 6 large villages at and above the mouth of Chischeter or Heart River five Villages on the West Side of the Missouri & two on the East one of those Villages on the East Side of the Missouri & the largest was intirely Cut off by the Sioux & the greater part of the others and the Small Pox reduced the others.
Ordway:
a nomber of the Grossvantares called the bigbelleys Stayed with us all last night. Capt. Lewis Gave a chief |
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| 1806 |
Clark: about 1 P. M. it became fair and we Sent out two parties of hunters on this Side of the Netul, one above and the other below, we also derected a party to Set out early in the morning and pass Meriwethers Bay and hunt beyond the Kilhow anak kle. from the last we have considerable hope, as we have as yet hunted but little in that quarter. it blew hard all day, in the evening the Indians departed. The Hunters, who were over the netul the other day informed us that they measured a 2d tree of the fir Speces (No. 1) as high as a man Could reach, was 39 feet in the girth; it tapered but very little for about 200 feet without any Considerable limbs, and that it was a very lofty above the Commencement of the limbs. from the appearance of other Species of fir, and their account of this tree, I think it might safely estimated at 300 feet. it had every appearance of being perfectly Sound in every part—. |
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| 1845 | The Florida Legislature Creates Levy County, Florida as the State's 26th County |
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| 1846 | Edward Baker Lincoln, Second Child, is Born to Abraham and Mary Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois |
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| 1848 | U.S. Senate Ratifies Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Ending War with Mexico |
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| 1849 | Abraham Lincoln Submits a Patent Application for an Improved Method of Lifted Vessels Over Shoals |
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| 1854 | In Wisconsin, Abolitionists Rescue Missouri Slave, Joshua Glover, From the Milwaukee Jail and Safely Transport Him to Canada |
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| 1860 | Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln Campaigns in Bridgeport, Connecticut |
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| 1862 | President Lincoln and His Staff Focus on Review of Prior Day's Battle of the Monitor and. Merrimac |
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| Confederate Troops Evacuate St. Augustine, Florida - Union Attack is Considered Imminent |
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| In Santa Fe, New Mexico, Confederate Troops Occupy the Palace of the Governors, Raising the Confederate Flag over the Palace |
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| 1863 | President Lincoln, Cabinet Members and Senators Discuss Sending Troops to Protect Arizona |
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| President Lincoln Proclaims Amnesty to Soldiers Absent without Leave |
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| A Federal Force, Primarily of African-American Troops, Reoccupies Jacksonville, Florida |
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| U.S.S. Gem of the Sea Captures the Sloop Petee at Florida's Indian River Inlet |
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| The All-African-American 54th Infantry of Massachusetts Is Created |
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| England's Prince Albert Edward Marries Princess Alexandra of Denmark |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln Promotes Ulysses S. Grant to Commander of the Union Armies |
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| Federal Forces Occupy Palatka, Florida |
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| President and Mrs. Lincoln Attend Grover's Theatre to See Edwin Booth in "Richard III" |
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| In Oregon, the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road Is Incorporated as a Toll Road" |
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| Montana Vigilantes Hang Jack Slade |
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| 1866 | Georgia Law Allows Wives to Maintain Separate Bank Accounts (Less Than $2,000) from Their Husbands |
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| 1876 | Bell Makes the First Phone Call: "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you." |
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| 1880 | Eight Salvation Army Emissaries Land in New York City to Begin U.S. Mission" |
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| 1884 | Henry Adams' Novel, Esther, Is Published |
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| 1890 | John Sealy Training School for Nurses Opens in Galveston, the First Nursing School in Texas |
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| 1893 | Ivory Coast and French Guinea Are Made Colonial Members of French Federation of West Africa |
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| 1902 | Thomas Edison Loses Lawsuit Claiming He Invented the Movie Camera |
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| U.S. Government Files Anti-trust Suit Against Northern Securities Company |
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| 1905 | Japan Captures Northeastern Chinese City of Mukden (Shenyang) During Russo-Japanese War |
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| 1912 | General Yuan Shikai Replaces Sun Yatsen as Provisional President of the Republic of China |
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| 1913 | African-American North Pole Explorer, Matthew Henson, Joins the U.S. Customs Service |
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| 1915 | Battle of Neuve-Chapelle Begins |
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| 1917 | Turkish Troops Begin Evacuation of Baghdad |
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| 1918 | Warner Brothers Releases Its First Film, Four Years in Germany |
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| 1920 | West Virginia Ratifies 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Giving Women the Right to Vote |
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| 1922 | India's British Governors Arrest Mahatma Gandhi for Sedition |
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| Striking South African Mine Workers Turn Violent, Attacking Post Offices and Power Stations |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald Publishes "The Hill," in the Mississippian |
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| 1929 | Hearts in Dixie, First African-American Film, Premieres |
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| 1937 |
Thomas Wolfe's Story "I Have a Thing to Tell You" Is Published in |
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| 1938 | For First Time Academy Award Winners are Kept Secret Until the Ceremony |
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| Jezebel Is Released: The Movie That Won Bette Davis an Oscar |
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| 1940 | Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Rejects U.S. Peace Proposal |
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| 1945 | 300 U.S. B-29 Bombers Firestorm Tokyo, Killing Tens of Thousands |
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| 1948 | Herbert Henry Hoover Is the First Civilian Pilot to Exceed the Speed of Sound |
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| Body of Czechoslovakia's Anti-Communist Foreign Minister, Jan Masaryk, Is Found in Prague |
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| Itasca County, Minnesota Reports a Temperature of -44° F |
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| 1949 | Nazi Broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, ''Axis Sally,'' Is Convicted of Treason |
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| 1952 | General Fulgencio Batista Overthrows the President of Cuba, Carlos Prěo Socarrás |
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| 1956 | Riots Break Out in Cyprus after British Authorities Deport the Head of Island's Greek Orthodox Church |
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| 1959 | The Alaska House of Representatives Votes to Give the Governor of the New State a Salary of $25,000 a Year |
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| Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth Premieres at New York's Martin Beck Theatre |
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| 1964 | The First Ford Mustang Is Produced |
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| 1965 | Neil Simon's Play ''The Odd Couple'' Opens on Broadway |
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| 1966 | Protests Mar Wedding of Dutch Princess Beatrix to German Claus von Amsberg |
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| 1969 | James Earl Ray Waives Trial, Pleads Guilty to Murder of Martin Luther King Jr. |
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| 1970 | U.S. Army Presses Charges Against Five for 1968 My Lai Massacre |
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| 1972 | First National Black Political Convention Is Held in Gary, Indiana |
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| Cambodian Premier Lon Nol, Recovering from Stroke, Retakes Control of Government |
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| 1973 | British Governor of Bermuda Assassinated on the Grounds of Government House |
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| 1974 | Revival of the Musical Candide Opens on Broadway |
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| 1977 | Uranus' Rings Discovered from Observations Made Aboard a Modified C-141 Jet |
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| 1982 | All Nine Planets Align within 98 Degrees on Same Side of the Sun |
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| 1984 | Miami, Florida Erupts in Riots When Jury Acquits Hispanic Policeman of Slaying of an African-American. |
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| 1988 | England's Prince Charles Narrowly Avoids Death in Swiss Avalanche |
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| 1989 | 6.2 Magnitude Earthquake in Malawi Leaves 9 Dead, 100 Injured, 50,000 Homeless |
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| 1990 | Iraqi Court Condemns British Journalist, Farzad Bazoft, to Death for Espionage |
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| Haitian President Prosper Avril Resigns 18 Months after Seizing Power in a Coup |
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| 1993 | Pensacola, Florida's Dr. David Gunn Is First Medical Professional to be Assassinated by Anti-Abortion Terrorists |
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| 2005 | Hong Kong Leader, Tung Chee-hwa, Resigns |
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| 2006 | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Goes into Orbit Around Mars |
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