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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 born on this date:
BEAD TIE RINSE |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a 1912 book illustrated by Rose O'Neill (according to Ortakles):
PREMIERE KET WHIP
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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 city which hosted an Olympic Games attended by Bonnie Blair (according to the International Olympic Committee):
LIVER BALLET
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 Rose O'Neill [AAA Traveler Magazines] 
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 Florence Seibert [Atchison Public Schools]
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 Queen Latifah Born on This Date 1970 [IMDB]
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 Minerva Bernardino 
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 Bonnie Blair Born on This Date 1964 [Leading Authorities]
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Aruba: Flag Day/Anthem Day
(Commemoration of the official adoption of the Aruba flag and anthem 03/18/1976) |
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Republic of Congo: Marien Ngouabi Day
(Remembrance of the assassination of Marien Ngouabi: 03/18/1977) |
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| 1937 | Barbro Lindgren (Swedish Children's Author) |
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| 1948 | Susan Patron (California-born Children's Author Awarded the 2007 Newbery Medal for The Higher Power of Lucky) |
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| Diane Siebert (Oregon Children's Author) |
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| 1950 | Douglas Florian (New York City-born Poet, Children's Author) |
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| 1958 | Kaethe Zemach (Massachusetts-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1733 | Friedrich Nicolai (German Writer; Leader of the German Enlightenment) |
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| 1842 | Stéphane Mallarmé (French Poet) |
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| 1891 | Margaret Culkin (Minnesota-born Novelist) |
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| 1893 | Wilfred Owen (English Poet Killed in World War I) |
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| 1914 | Bernard Malamud (New York City-born Novelist Awarded the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: The Fixer) |
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| 1915 | Richard Condon (New York-born Novelist, Playwright) |
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| 1927 | George Plimpton (New York City-born Editor, Author) |
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| 1932 | John Updike (Pennsylvania-born Two-time Putlizer Prize-winning Novelist) |
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| 1938 | Michael Harper (New York City-born African-American Poet) |
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| 1940 | Mark Medoff (Illinois-born Playwright ) |
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| 1970 | Michael Harper (New York-born Poet) |
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| 1816 | Antonio Salviati (Italian Glass Manufacturer) |
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| 1848 | Nathanael Herreshoff (Rhode Island-born Naval Architect, Yacht Designer) |
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| 1901 | William H. Johnson (South Carolina-born African-American Painter) |
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| 1844 | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian Composer) |
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| 1829 | William Robertson Boggs (Georgia-born Confederate General) |
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| 1858 | Rudolf Diesel (German Thermal Engineer Who Invented the Internal-Combustion Engine) |
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| 1798 | Francis Lieber (German-American Political Philosopher) |
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| 1922 | Fred Shuttlesworth (Alabama-born African-American Minister, Civil Rights Leader) |
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| 1782 | John C. Calhoun (South Carolina-born Congressman, Senator, Secretary of War, Secretary of State, Vice President of the United States) |
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| 1783 | Henry Wharton Conway (Tennessee-born U.S. Congressman From Arkansas) |
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| 1837 | Grover Cleveland (New Jersey-born 22nd & 24th President of the United States) |
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| 1863 | William Sulzer (New Jersey-born Governor of New York) |
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| 1869 | Neville Chamberlain (Prime Minister of England) |
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| 1928 | Fidel Ramos (President of the Philippines ) |
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| 1933 | Unita Blackwell (Mississippi-born Civil Rights Activist; First African-American Female to Serve as a Mayor in Mississippi) |
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| 1936 | F. W. de Klerk (President of South Africa ) |
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| 1886 | Edward Everett Horton (New York City-born Actor; Narrator Rocky & Bullwinkle Show) |
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| 1926 | Peter Graves (Minnesota-born Actor) |
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| 1941 | Wilson Pickett (Alabama-born African-American Popular Singer) |
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| 1970 | Queen Latifah (New Jersey-born African-American Rapper, Record Producer, Actress) |
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| 1972 | Dane Cook (Massachusetts-born Comedic Actor) |
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| 1956 | Ingemar Stenmark (Swedish World & Olympic Champion Skier) |
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| 1964 | Bonnie Blair (New York-born Olympic Gold Medal Speed Skater) |
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| 978 | Edward II the Martyr, King of England (Murdered By an Attendant on His Stepmother's Order) |
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| 1584 | Ivan IV, "Ivan The Terrible" (Czar of Russia) |
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| 1768 | Lawrence Sterne (English Author of Tristram Shandy) |
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| 1854 | William Pope DuVal (Virginia-born First Territorial Governor of Florida: 1822-1834; Namesake of DuVal County, Florida) |
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| 1947 | Will Durant (Massachusetts-born Founder of General Motors) |
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| 1986 | Bernard Malamud (American author) |
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| 978 | Edward II the Martyr, King of England, Is Murdered by an Attendant on His Stepmother's Order |
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| 1673 | Lord Berkeley Sells His Right and Interest in the Colonial Province of New Jersey to Members of the Society of Quakers for £1000 |
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| 1718 | While in Belgrade, the Infant Son of Lady Mary Wortley Montague Is the First English Subject to be Inoculated Against Smallpox |
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| 1766 | After Months of Protests, Britain Repeals The Stamp Act |
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| The Delaware General Assembly Prepares an Address Expressing Loyalty to George III and Gratitude for Repeal of the Stamp Act |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a cold cloudy day wind from the N. I pack up all the merchindize into 8 packs equally derided So as to have Something of every thing in each Canoe & perogue
I am informed of a Party of Christanoes & assinniboins being killed by the Sioux, 50 in Number near the Estableishments on the assinniboin R. a fiew Mr. Tousent Chabono, Enlisted as an Interpreter this evening, I am not well to day.
Ordway: Cloudy. 2 men came down from the peerogues for provisions. 2 men went up to Grossvantares. Capt. Clark went to packing up the Indian Goods— 2 men with him— |
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| 1806 |
Clark: Drewyer was taken last night with a violent pain in his Side. I bled him. Several of the men are complaining of being unwell. it is truly unfortunate that they Should be Sick at the moment of our departure. Derected Sergt. Pryor to prepare the two Indian Canoes which we had purchased for his mess. they wanted Some knees to Strengthen them, and Several cracks corked and payed. he compleated them except paying. the frequent Showers of rain prevented the Canoes drying Sufficient to pay them even with the assistance of fire.— Commorwool and two Cathlahmahs visited us to day; we Suffered them to remain all night. this morning we gave Delashelwilt a certificate of his good deportment &c. and also a list of our names, after which we dispatched him to his village with his female band. Those list's of our Names we have given to Several of the nativs, and also pasted up a Copy in our room. the Object of these lists we Stated in the preamble of the Same as follows Viz: "The Object of this list is, that through the medium of Some civilized person who may See the Same, it may be made known to the informed world, that the party consisting of the persons whose names are hereunto annexed, and who were Sent out by the Government of the United States in May 1804, to explore the interior of the Continent of North America, did penetrate the Same by way of the Missouri and Columbia rivers, to the discharge of the latter into the Pacific Ocian, where they arrived on the 14th of November 1805, and from whence they departed March 1806 on their return to the United States by the Same rout they had come out." On the back of lists we added a Sketch of the continent of the upper branches of the Missouri with those of the Columbia, particularly of its upper N. E. branch or Lewis's River, on which we also delineated the track we had Came and that we ment to pursue on our return, when the Same happened to vary. There Seemes So many chances against our governments ever obtaining a regular report, through the medium of the Savages, and the traders of this Coast that we decline makeing any. Our party are too small to think of leaveing any of them to return to the Unt. States by Sea, particularly as we Shall be necessarily devided into two or three parties on our return in order to accomplish the Object we have in View; and at any rate we Shall reach the U, States in all humain probabillity much earlier than a man Could who must in the event of his being left here depend for his passage to the U, State on the traders of the Coast, who may not return imediately to the U, States. or if they should, might probably Spend the next Summer in tradeing with the nativs before they would Set out on their return. This evening Drewyer went in quest of his traps, and took an otter. Joseph Field killd and Elk.— The Indians repeated to us Eighteen distinct Nations resideing on the S S. E Coast who Speak the Kil a mox language or understand it. and beyend those Six other Nations which Speak a different language which they did not comprehend. |
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| 1820 | A Post Office Is Established at Little Rock, Arkansas |
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| 1831 | In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court Rules the Cherokees Are Not a Foreign Nation As Defined by the U.S. Constitution |
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| 1834 | 6 English Agricultural Laborers Are Sentenced to 7 Years in Australia's New South Wales Penal Colony for Trade Union Activities |
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| Construction of the First Railroad Tunnel in the U.S., the 901' Staple Bend Tunnel, Is Completed Near Johnstown, Pennsylvania |
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| 1836 | The New Texas Government Begins a 3-day Session at Groce's Retreat in What Is Now Southwestern Grimes County |
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| 1843 | The Publication Pioneer Runs the Short Story "The Birthmark," by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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| 1850 | American Express Is Founded |
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| 1852 | Wells Fargo Opens a Banking and Shipping Company |
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| 1853 | A Train From Toledo, Ohio Is the First to Reach Richmond, Indiana |
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| 1854 | Marcellus Lovejoy Stearns Becomes the 11th Governor of Florida Following the Death of Governor Ossian Bingley Hart |
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| In California, Plumas County Is Formed Out of Butte County |
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| 1858 | In Minnesota, Otter Tail, Becker and Breckenridge Counties Are Formed |
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| 1863 | President Lincoln Proclaims a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation with Republic of Liberia |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln Writes Secretary Stanton Regarding the Release of Prisoners of War |
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| 1865 | The Congress of the Confederate States of American Holds Its Last Session in Richmond, Virginia and Adjourns for the Final Time |
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| 1868 | In New York City, Writers Jane Cunningham Croly and Alice Cary Found Sorosis, the First Professional Women's Club |
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| 1870 | California Legislature Establishes Lake Merritt as First US Wildlife Preserve |
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| 1879 | Oregon Representative John Whiteaker Completes an Express Cross-Country Trip Assuring Election of a Democratic Party Speaker of the House |
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| 1887 | In Washington, the Spokane Tribe Cedes 3.14M Acres of Land to the United States for About 32 Cents Per Acre |
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| 1890 | The Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules That Use of the Bible as a Textbook in Public Schools Violates the Constitution |
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| 1892 | Lord Stanley, Governor General of Canada, Donates Cup as Award for Best Ice Hockey Team in Canada |
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| 1909 | Einar Dessau of Denmark Uses a Shortwave Transmitter to Converse with a Government Post 6 Miles Away, Initiating the First "Ham" Broadcast |
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| The Delaware Legislature Transfers the Title of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to the Federal Government |
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| 1910 | Rose O'Neill's Kewpie Doll Is Copyrighted |
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| 1915 | Turkish Mines Sink 5 of 10 Allied Battleships (6 English and 4 French) Attacking the Dardanelles |
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| 1917 | In Washington, Stan Laurel Begins a Four-Day Vaudeville Engagement at Seattle's Palace Hippodrome Theatre |
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| 1918 | The Wilson & Sylvester Sawmill at Wrangell, the Largest Mill in Alaska, Burns |
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| 1921 | The Delaware General Assembly Abolishes the Indentured Servant System and County Poor Houses |
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| 1922 | British Sentence Mohandas Gandhi to 6 Years in Prison for Civil Disobedience |
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| 1924 | Thief of Baghdad, with Douglas Fairbanks, Opens in Theaters |
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| 1925 | Over a 3-hour Period, a Tornado Hits Missouri, Indiana, Illinois: 689 Die, 13,000 Injured |
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| Fire Destroys the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida |
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| 1929 | General Motors Buys German Auto Manufacturer Opel |
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| 1931 | Schick Inc. Markets the First Electric Razor |
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| 1937 | Nearly 300 New London, Texas Students Are Killed by a Natural Gas Explosion in Their School |
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| Tennessee Williams' Candles to the Sun Premieres in St. Louis |
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| 1938 | Colorado, Texas and New Mexico Sign a Compact in Santa Fe, Committing to an Equal Distribution of Water from the Rio Grande Basin |
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| 1939 | In Washington, a Prototype of the Boeing Stratoliner Crashes into Mount Rainier on a Test Flight, Killing 10 |
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| 1940 | Mussolini Joins NAZI Germany In War Against France & England |
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| 1942 | The War Relocation Authority Is Created to Confine Japanese Americans |
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| 1947 | Following a Ruling of the Georgia Supreme Court, Governor Herman Talmadge Is Replaced by Lt. Governor Melvin Thompson |
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| 1948 | France, Great Britain & Benelux Sign Treaty of Brussels |
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| Wallace Stevens Reads "Effects of Analogy" at Yale University |
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| 1950 | Forces of the Nationalist Chinese Government on Taiwan Invade the Mainland and Capture the Town of Sungmen |
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| A Referendum Supporting the Return of Exiled King Leopold III, Collapses the Belgian Government |
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| In South Africa, the University of the Orange Free State Is Established |
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| 1953 | A 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 1070 People in West Turkey |
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| Major League Baseball Approves the Move of the Boston Braves to Milwaukee |
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| 1954 | Employees of Parker Pen in Janesville, Wisconsin Receive a 5¢/hr Raise: Men $1.95/hr, Women $1.62/hr. |
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| 1955 | Meeting in Atlanta, the Georgia Educators Association Announces Its Support of "Equal but Separate Schools" |
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| 1959 | President Dwight D Eisenhower Signs Hawaii Statehood Bill |
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| 1962 | French & Algerian Rebels Agree to Truce |
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| 1963 | France Conducts 20 kT Underground Nuclear Test in Algeria |
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| In Gideon v. Wainwright, the U.S. Supreme Court Rules Public Defenders Must be Provided for the Indigent |
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| 1965 | Russian Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov Takes the First Space Walk |
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| Near Pretoria, South Africa's First Nuclear Reactor Goes Critical |
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| 1967 | Tanker Wrecks off England's Coast, Spilling 919,000 Barrels of Oil |
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| 1968 | Mel Brooks' The Producers Opens in Theaters |
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| 1969 | The U.S. Bombs Cambodia for First Time |
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| 1970 | Cambodia's National Assembly Deposes Prince Norodom Sihanouk as Head of State, Granting Emergency Powers to Prime Minister Lon Nol |
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| 1972 | University of Kentucky's Adolph Rupp Coaches His Last Game, a 73-54 Loss to Florida State |
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| 1974 | OPEC Countries Lift Five-Month U.S. Oil Embargo |
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| Two Israeli Soldiers Are Killed and Three Injured in Violence Along the Golan Heights |
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| South Africa Bans Leaders of the World Council of Churches From Entering the County Due to Their Program Against Racism |
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| Teachers in Hortonville, Wisconsin Begin a Strike That Will Reach the State Supreme Court |
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| 1976 | Georgia Adopts As State Symbols: Staurolite (Mineral), Shark Tooth (Fossil), Quartz (Gem) |
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| 1977 | A 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered About 300 Kilometers Northeast of Manila in the Philippines |
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| 1978 | Former Pakistani Premier Ali Bhutto Sentenced to Death |
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| 1979 | Explosion Kills 10 English Miners |
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| 1986 | U.S. Announces a New Currency Design to Prevent Counterfeiting |
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| 1987 | U.S. Conducts 20 KT Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada |
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| 1989 | Space Shuttle Discovery Returns from Six-day Satellite Deployment Mission |
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| 1990 | 12 Paintings Valued $100M Are Stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
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| 1992 | White South Africans Overwhelmingly Back a Mandate for Political Reforms Ending Apartheid and Creating a Multi-Racial Government |
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| 1994 | Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-62) Lands from 14-day Scientific Mission |
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| 1995 | Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS 67) Lands after 16-day Astro Observatory Mission |
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| 2000 | Taiwan Ends More Than a Half Century of Nationalist Party Rule by Electing Opposition Leader Chen Shui-bian President |
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| 2002 | A 13-year-old Spectator Dies Two Days After Being Struck in the Head by a Puck at a Professional Hockey Game |
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| 2005 | Former Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland Is Sentenced to a Year in Prison and Four Months House Arrest for Corruption |
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