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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 title of a work by Wanda Gág (according the Minnesota Historical Society selected works):
NAPPY DAN SNIP SPY
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Use all of these letters to spell the title of a work by Lorraine Hansberry (according to the Authors' Calendar):
SCAN BELLS |
(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 1920 Dorothy Gish film (according to the Internet Movie Database):
FIG TAN PLY
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 Wanda Gág Born on This Date 1893 [Minneapolis Public Library]
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 Lillian Gilbreth [Purdue University]
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 Dorothy Gish Born on This Date 1898 [Silent Ladies]
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 Hillary Rodham Clinton [Barnes & Noble]
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 Wilma Rudolph
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Lesotho: Moshoeshoe Day
(Observation of the anniversary of the death of Moshoeshoe I: 3/11/1870) |
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Lithuania: Restoration of Statehood Day
(Commemorates the restoration of Lithuanian Statehood March 11, 1990) |
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United States: Johnny Appleseed Day
(Celebrated on this date in some sites and on Sept 26 in others) |
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| 1893 | Wanda Gág (Minnesota-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1916 | Ezra Jack Keats (New York City-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1938 | Doris J. Chaconas (Wisconsin-born Children's Author) |
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| 1939 | Avner Katz (Israeli Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1947 | Jonathan London (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1544 | Torquato Tasso (Italian Poet) |
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| 1952 | Douglas Adams (English Author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) |
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| 1836 | Charles Eastlake (English Art Critic) |
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| 1876 | Carl Ruggles (Massachusetts-born Composer) |
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| 1897 | Henry Cowell (California-born Composer) |
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| 1822 | Joseph Bertrand (French Mathematician, Educator) |
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| 1890 | Vannevar Bush (Massachusetts-born Computing Pioneer) |
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| 1931 | Rupert Murdoch (Australian Media Mogul) |
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| 1909 | John M. Burgess (Michigan-born African-American Bishop of the in the American Episcopal Church) |
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| 1731 | Robert Treat Paine (Massachusetts-born Signer of the Declaration of Independence) |
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| 1785 | John McLean (New Jersey-born Associated Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1890 | W. Lee (Pappy) O'Daniel (Ohio-born Governor of Texas, U.S. Senator) |
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| 1899 | Frederick IX (King of Denmark) |
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| 1916 | Harold Wilson (Prime Minister of England) |
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| 1926 | Ralph Abernathy (Alabama-born Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader) |
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| 1936 | Antonin Scalia (New Jersey-born Associated Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1948 | Roy Barnes (Governor of Georgia) |
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| 1950 | Jerry Zucker (Wisconsin-born Film Producer) |
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| 1898 | Dorothy Gish (Ohio-born Actress) |
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| 1903 | Lawrence Welk (North Dakota-born Bandleader) |
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| 1922 | Vinnette Carroll (New York City-born African-American Theatrical Director, Playwright, Actor) |
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| 1934 | Sam Donaldson (Texas-born Broadcast Journalist) |
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| 1950 | Bobby McFerrin (New York City-born African-American Multi-Grammy-Winning Popular Vocalist, Musician, Composer) |
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| 1982 | Thora Birch (Los Angeles-born Actress) |
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| 1885 | Malcolm Campbell (English Holder of World Land and Sea Speed Records) |
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| 1820 | Benjamin West (Pennsylvania-born Painter) ) |
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| 1870 | Moshoeshoe I (King of Lesotho) |
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| 1884 | Ben Thompson (Texas Gunslinger Killed in a San Antonio Theatre By Accomplices of Longtime Enemies) |
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| 1916 | Henry Gassaway Davis (Maryland-born U.S. Senator from West Virginia) |
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| 1955 | Alexander Fleming (English Bacteriologist Who First Discovered the Drug Penicillin) |
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| 1970 | Erle Stanley Gardner (Massachusetts-born Author; Creator of Perry Mason) |
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| 1971 | Philo T. Farnsworth (Utah-born Inventor, Television Pioneer) |
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| Whitney Young, Jr. (Civil Rights Leader) |
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| 1996 | Charles William Oatley (English Pioneer of the Scanning Electron Microscope) |
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| 1998 | Basil 'Manenberg' Coetzee (South African Jazz Musician) |
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| 2006 | Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavian Dictator) |
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| 2010 | Merlin Olsen (Utah-born Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1669 | Mt. Etna Erupts, Killing 15,000 |
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| 1702 | First English Daily Newspaper, Daily Courant, Is Published |
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| 1779 | The U.S. Congress Establishes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
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| 1791 | Samuel Mulliken Is the First Person to Obtain More Than 1 U.S. Patent |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: A Cloudy Cold windey day, Some Snow in the latter part of the day, we deturmin to have two other Perogues made for us to transport our Provisions &c. We have every reason to believe that our Menetarre interpeter, (whome we intended to take with his wife, as an interpeter through his wife to the Snake Indians of which nation She is) has been Corupted by the Companeys &c Some explenation has taken place which Clearly proves to us the fact, we give him to night to reflect and deturmin whether or not he intends to go with us under the regulations Stated [The captains may have assumed that the Hudson's Bay and North West companies wished to sabotage their expedition in the interests of securing the Indian trade to themselves. To this they attributed Charbonneau's decision to quit. Larocque and McKenzie make no reference to such maneuvers, and Larocque gives the impression that he and Bunch (or Budge), the Hudson's Bay man, were far more interested in competing with each other than in forestalling the Americans. It is hard to say whether the captains' suspicions were more than mere Anglophobia.]
Ordway:
clear Moderate weather.
The head chief of the Water Souix Stayed in the Fort last night. one of the perogue party who came in last night returned with provisions this morning. had orders for two more perogues to be made
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| 1806 |
Clark: Early this morning Sergt. Pryor arrived with a Small Canoe loaded with fish which he had obtained from the Cath-lah-mah's for a very Small part of the articles he had taken with him. the wind had prevented his going to the fishery on the opposit Side of the river above the Waukie-cum's, and also as we had suspected, prevented his return as early as he otherwise would have been back. The dogs of the Cathlahmah's had bitten the throng assunder which confined his canoe and she had gorn adrift. he borrowed a Canoe from the Indians in which he has returned. he found his canoe on the way and Secured her, untill we return the Indians their Canoe—Sent Sergt. Gass and a party in Serch of one of our Canoes which was reported to have been lost from a hunting party of Shields R. Field & Frazier when they were last out on the opposit Side of the Netul. they returned and reported that they Could not find the Canoe which had broken the Cord with which it was attached, and was caried off by the tide. Drewyer Jo. Field & Frazier Set out by light this morning to pass the bay in order to hunt as they had been directed last evening. we once more live in Clover; Anchovies fresh Sturgeon and Wappatoe. the latter Sergt. Pryor had also procured a fiew and brought with him. The Deer of this Coust differ from the Common Deer, fallow Deer or Mule Deer as has beformentioned. |
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| 1810 | Emperor Napoleon of France Is Married by Proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria |
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| 1811 | A Group of English Workers Known as the Luddites Begin 5 Years of Terrorist Acts in Reprisal for Lost Wages and Jobs |
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| 1818 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein Is First Published |
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| 1824 | U.S. Department of War Creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs |
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| 1835 | Charles Darwin's HMS Beagle Anchors off Valparaiso, Chile |
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| 1839 | Dane County, Wisconsin Is Organized by the Territorial Legislature |
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| 1843 | Wakulla County, Florida's 23rd County, Is Created by the Territorial Legislature and Named for the Nearby Wakulla Springs |
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| 1845 | Lutherans Charter Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio |
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| 1850 | State Legislature Establishes the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania |
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| 1851 | Giuseppe Verdi's Opera Rigoletto Premieres in Venice at the Teatro La Fenice |
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| 1861 | A Convention in Montgomery, Alabama Adopts the Confederate Constitution |
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| Keweenaw County, Michigan Is Organized |
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| 1862 | President Lincoln Issues War Order No. 3, Shuffling the General Assignments at the Top of the Union Command |
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| Troops of the First Minnesota Infantry Regiment Occupy the Town of Berryville, Virginia |
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| In Florida, the Crew of the U.S.S. Wabash Occupies Fort Marion and St. Augustine with No Opposition |
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| In Florida, Two Confederate Gunboats under Construction in Pensacola Bay Are Burned to Prevent Their Capture by Federal Forces |
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| 1863 | In Jacksonville, Florida, Confederate Forces Attack Union Positions and Force Federal Soldiers to Retreat to Their Gunboats |
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| A Treaty Consolidates Three Ojibwe Reservations into the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in North-Central Minnesota |
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| 1864 | In Florida, Federal Ships Capture Three Blockade Runners |
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| 1865 | Sherman's Union Troops Capture Fayetteville, North Carolina and Destroy the Fayetteville Arsenal |
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| President Lincoln Issues Proclamation Offering Pardon to Deserters Who Return to Service and Loss of Citizenship for Those Who Do Not |
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| 1867 | Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos Premieres in Paris |
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| 1868 | Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia's Reconstruction Convention Completed a New Constitution to be Submitted to Voters for Ratification |
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| 1869 | Dr. Samuel Mudd, Is Released from Imprisonment at Florida's Fort Jefferson After Being Pardoned for the Assassination of President Lincoln |
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| 1870 | In Florida, the Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine Is Formally Established |
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| 1873 | St. Luke's Hospital, the Oldest Continuously Operating Hospital in Florida, Opens in Jacksonville with 2 Rooms and 4 Beds |
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| 1878 | The First 8 African-American Men to Enroll in a State-Supported College in Texas Begin Classes at Prairie View A&M University |
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| 1882 | Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Is Formed in Princeton, New Jersey |
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| The City of DeLand, Florida Is Incorporated |
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| 1884 | Texas Gunslinger Ben Thompson Is Killed in a San Antonio Theatre By Accomplices of Longtime Enemies |
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| 1888 | A Blizzard Hits the U.S. Northeastern Seaboard (400 die) |
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| 1895 | Spanish Cruiser Reina Regenta Sinks at Gibraltar, 400 Die |
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| 1907 | In New Mexico, Chaco Canyon National Monument Opens |
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| 1910 | The First Powered Flight of an Airplane in Washington State Originates From the Meadows Race Track Just South of Seattle |
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| 1917 | British Troops Capture Baghdad |
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| 1918 | The First U.S. Cases of Influenza Pandemic are Reported at Fort Riley, Kansas |
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| 1925 | New Mexico Adopts the Current State Flag |
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| 1929 | Major Seagraves Establishes a New Automobile Speed Record at Daytona Beach, with a Speed of 223.2 mph in a 450 hp Golden Arrow |
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| 1930 | Taft Is First President Buried at Arlington National Cemetery |
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| 1933 | 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake Causes $40M Property Damage in Southern California, Killing 15 People |
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| 1935 | Bank of Canada Opens |
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| 1938 | Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg Resigns in Response to an Ultimatum Issued by German Chancellor Adolf Hitler |
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| 1940 | John Steinbeck Accompanies His Friend, Marine Biologist Edward F. Ricketts, on a Marine Expedition in the Gulf of California |
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| 1941 | President Roosevelt Signs Lend-Lease Act to Provide War Aid to Europe & Russia |
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| 1942 | American Defenses Collapse in the Philippines and General Douglas MacArthur Pulls Out of the Islands, Vowing "I Shall Return." |
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| Near Alaska, the SS Mount McKinley, 4,861 Tons and Carrying Military Cargo, Is Wrecked at Scotch Cap, Unimak Pass |
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| 1948 | Reginald Weir Is the First African-American to Play in a US Lawn Tennis Association National Championship |
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| 1950 | After 26 Years on the Radio, the Country Music Radio Show National Barn Dance Airs for the Last Time |
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| 1952 | Seattle Voters Defeat a Proposal to Add Fluoride to City Drinking Water |
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| 1953 | Georgia Law Requires All Public High Schools to Offer a Year-Long Course in Federal and State Government |
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| 1954 | Positive Results Reported on Tests of Jonas E. Salk's Polio Vaccine |
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| 1957 | 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered on Alaska's Fox Islands |
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| 1959 | Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun Premieres in New York |
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| 1960 | U.S. Launches Pioneer 5 into Solar Orbit to Map Interplanetary Magnetic Field |
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| 1962 | Minnesota's Twin Cities Receive More Than a Foot of Wind-Driven Snow |
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| 1964 | The International Labour Organisation Suspends South Africa for Its System of Racial Discrimination and Labour Practices |
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| 1965 | A Grand Jury Indicts Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler, and Thomas 15X Johnson for the Murder of Malcolm X |
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| 1975 | Portugal's General Spinola Fails in Military Coup Attempt |
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| USSR Conducts 20 kt Underground Nuclear Test in Kazakhstan |
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| 1976 | A Magnitude 3.5 Earthquake Centered Near Newport, Rhode Island Is the Largest in the State's Recorded History |
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| 1977 | Moslems Hold 130 Hostages in Washington D.C. |
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| 1985 | Mikhail Gorbachev Is Picked to Lead the Soviet Union |
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| 1986 | Japan's Sakigake Spacecraft Makes Closest Approach to Halley's Comet at a Distance of 6.99M km |
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| 1990 | A Free Parliament Declares Lithuania to be a Sovereign State |
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| 1993 | Janet Reno Is Unanimously Confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Nation's First Female Attorney General |
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| 1995 | Sinn Fein Party Leader, Gerry Adams, Arrives in the United States |
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| 1997 | Beatle Paul McCartney Knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II |
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| 2004 | 10 Terrorist Bombs Rip Through 4 Madrid Commuter Trains: 191 Die |
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| 2006 | Former Serb Leader Slobodan Milosevic Is Found Dead of a Heart Attack in His Prison Cell in the Netherlands |
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| 2011 | 9.0 Magnitude Earthquake, Aftershocks and 30' Tsunami Kill 20,000 in Japan, Leaving 500,00 Homeless and Creating Meltowns in Nuclear Power Plants |
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