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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
Good Luck! |
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  Use all of these letters to spell the name of a children's author born on this date:
NONCLEO REFOLD |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a movie in which Holly Hunter has appeared (according to Biography.com):
SCARCE SKIER FIRM |
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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 song made popular by Vera Lynn (according to Historic UK):
VOICED WHIFFLE FROST |
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| Vernal Equinox |
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| Act Happy Day |
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Big Bird's Birthday
(Big Bird was officially 4-years-old until he turned 6: 03/20/1991) |
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Tunisia: Independence Day
(Commemoration of independence from France: 03/20/1956) |
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United States: Agriculture Day
(Observed on the first day of spring) |
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| 1916 | Bill Martin, Jr. (Kansas-born Children's Author) |
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| 1926 | Mitsumasa Anno (Japanese Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1928 | Shigeo Watanabe (Japanese Children's Author) |
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| 1937 | Lois Lowy (Hawaiian-born Children's Author) |
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| 1942 | Ellen Conford (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1954 | Louis Sachar (New York-born Children's Author) |
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| 43 B.C. | Ovid (Roman Poet) |
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| 1770 | Friedrich Hölderin (German Lyric Poet) |
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| 1828 | Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian Playwright) |
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| 1831 | Isabel Burton (English Writer) |
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| 1832 | Ned Buntline (New York-born: Writer of Old West Dime Novels) |
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| 1905 | Vera Panova (Russian Writer, Journalist) |
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| 1907 | Hugh Maclennan (Canadian Novelist, Essayist) |
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| 1929 | Thomas B. Allen (Connecticut-born Writer of Military History) |
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| 1930 | Ann Ruff (Mississippi-born Texas Travel Writer) |
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| 1932 | Tom Dent (New Orleans-born African-American Playwright, Poet, Civil Rights Activist) |
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| 1741 | Jean-Antoine Houdon (French Sculptor in the Rococo Style) |
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| 1811 | George Caleb Bingham (Virginia-born Painter) |
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| 1910 | Allan Rohan Crite (New Jersey-born African-American Painter, Military Engineer, Drafter, Illustrator, Librarian ) |
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| 1735 | Torbern Olof Bergman (Swedish Chemist and Naturalist) |
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| 1904 | B.F. Skinner (Pennsylvania-born Psychologist) |
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| 1856 | F. W. Taylor (Pennsylvania-born Inventor, Pioneer in Industrial Management) |
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| 1777 | Edmund Pendleton Gaines (Virginia-born U.S. General, Namesake of Gainesville, Georgia) |
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| 1834 | Charles William Eliot (Massachusetts-born President of Harvard University) |
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| 1870 | Oramel Simpson (Governor of Louisiana) |
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| 1907 | Ellis Gibbs Arnall (Governor of Georgia) |
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| 1911 | Alfonso Garcia Robles (Mexican Diplomat: 1982 Laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize) |
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| 1939 | Brian Mulroney (Prime Minister of Canada) |
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| 1902 | Edgar Buchanan (Missouri-born Actor) |
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| 1906 | Ozzie Nelson (New Jersey-born Actor, Producer) |
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| 1908 | Michael Redgrave (English Stage and Screen Actor) |
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| 1915 | Rosetta Nubin Tharpe (Arkansas-born African-American Gospel Singer, Guitarist) |
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| 1917 | Vera Lynn (English Popular Singer) |
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| 1920 | Marian McPartland (English-American Jazz Pianist) |
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| Werner Klemperer (German Actor) |
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| 1928 | Carl Reiner (New York-born Writer, Actor, Producer) |
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| 1928 | Fred Rogers (Pennsylvania-born Minister, Educator: Mr. Rogers) |
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| 1931 | Hal Linden (New York-born Actor) |
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| 1937 | Jerry Reed (Georgia-born Country Musician) |
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| 1950 | William Hurt (Washington, D.C.-born Actor) |
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| 1957 | Spike Lee (Georgia-born African-American Director, Producer, Actor) |
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| 1958 | Holly Hunter (Georgia-born Actress) |
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| 1945 | Pat Riley (New York-born Professional Basketball Coach) |
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| 1948 | Bobby Orr (New York-born Professional Ice Hockey Player) |
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| 1413 | Henry IV, King of England |
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| 1727 | Isaac Newton (English Mathematician, Scientist) |
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| 1928 | James Ward Packard (Ohio-born Automobile Pioneer) |
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| 1938 | Elinor Frost (Wife of Poet Robert Frost) |
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| 1964 | Brendan Behan (Irish Dramatist) |
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| 1974 | Chet Huntley (Montana-born Broadcast Journalist) |
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| 1987 | Kenneth Threadgill (Texas-born Country Singer) |
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| 1994 | Louis Gizzard (Georgia-born Journalist, Humorist) |
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| 2010 | Stewart Udall (Arizona-born U.S. Congressman, Secretary of the Interior) |
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| 1348 | Venice Is the First City to Implement a Quarantine Policy to Control Bubonic Plague |
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| 1413 | Henry V Is Crowned King of England |
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| 1565 | King of Spain Names Pedro Menendez de Aviles Governor and Captain-General of Florida |
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| 1602 | The Dutch Republic Grants the Dutch East India a Monopoly on Trade in the East Indies |
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| 1653 | Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Dissolves the Long Parliament |
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| 1680 | Robert de la Salle Begins Trek As First Euro-American to Cross Michigan's Lower Peninsula |
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| 1721 | Spanish Governor, Marqués de Aguayo, and a Force of 500 Cross the Rio Grande to Reestablish Spanish Control of East Texas |
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| 1760 | Great Fire of Boston Destroys 349 Buildings |
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| 1778 | King Louis XVI Receives U.S. Representatives |
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| 1779 | In Ohio, British Troops and Their Indian Allies End the One-Month Siege of Fort Laurens |
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| 1803 |
 Detachment Orders from Clark: While the commanding office and Captain Clark are absent from camp, the party will be commanded by Serg. Ordway. The sawyers are still working to cut enough planks. The blacksmiths are still working also. The four men are still working to make sugar and will do so until told otherwise. The practicing party will continue to discharge only one round each per day, which will be done under the direction of Serg. Ordway. All practices will be at the same target, and at the same distance of fifty years off hand. During each practice, the person who makes the best shot receives a gill of extra whiskey. Floyd will take charge of our quarters and store and be exempt from guard duty until our return. |
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| 1806 |
Clark: It continued to rain and blow so violently to day that nothing could be done towards forwarding our departure. we intended to have dispatched Drewyer & the 2 Field'es to hunt above Point William untill we joined them from hense but the rain renders our departure So uncertain that we decline this measure for the present. nothing remarkable happened dureing the day. we have yet Several days provisions on hand, which we hope will be Sufficient to Serve us dureing the time we are compell'd by the weather to remain at this place.—.
Altho' we have not fared Sumptuously this winter & Spring at Fort Clatsop, we have lived quit as comfortably as we Maney of our men are Still Complaining of being unwell; Bratten and Willard remain weak principally I believe for the want of proper food. I expect when we get under way that we Shall be much more healthy. it has always had that effect on us heretofore. The Guns of Sergt. Pryor & Drewyer were both out of order. the first had a Cock screw broken which was replaced by a duplicate which had been prepared for the Locks at Harpers Ferry; the Second repared with a new Lock, the old one becoming unfit for use. but for the precaution taken in bringing on those extra locks, and parts of locks, in addition to the ingenuity of John Shields, most of our guns would at this moment been entirely unfit for use; but fortunate for us I have it in my power here to record that they are in good order, and Complete in every respect— |
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| 1815 | Napoleon Returns to Paris from Elba, Begins 100-day Rule |
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| 1816 | In Martin v. Hunter's Lessee U.S. Supreme Court Asserts in Superiority over State Courts |
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| 1836 | State of Michigan Borrows Money for the First Time: $36,000 @ 6% Interest |
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| 1837 | Michigan Passes Public Improvements Act to Build 3 Railroads and 2 Canals Across the State |
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| Michigan Passes a Plan for Free Public Schools in the State |
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| 1839 | Seminoles Fatally Wound One U.S. Officer in Florida Skirmish |
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| 1841 | Ralph Waldo Emerson's First Series of Essays is Published |
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| 1843 | Abraham Lincoln Loses Bid to Be Whig Candidate for Congress from Illinois' 7th District |
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| 1852 | Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin Is Published |
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| 1854 | The Republican Party Is Founded in Ripon, Wisconsin |
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| 1858 | Kandiyohi County, Minnesota Is Established Named with the Dakota Word Meaning "Where the Buffalo Fish Come" |
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| 1861 | Willie & Tad Lincoln Are Diagnosed with the Measles |
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| 1863 | President Lincoln Declares Public Land Sales in Washington Territory, Michigan, and Kansas |
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| 1864 | U.S.S. Tioga Captures the Confederate Sloop Swallow Off Florida's East Coast |
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| 1865 | President Lincoln Makes Plans to Visit General Grant in City Point, Virginia |
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| 1871 | Nevada County, Arkansas Is Created |
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| 1872 | Methodist Church Transfers East Alabama Male College (Auburn University) to the State of Alabama |
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| Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Mobile Railroad Is Completed Between Quincy and Chattahoochee, Florida |
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| 1874 | A Railroad Bridge Completed Across the Red River Connects Texarkana, Arkansas and St. Louis, Missouri |
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| 1881 | Saginaw's Bancroft Hotel Turns on Michigan's First Commercial Incandescent Lighting |
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| 1883 | Jan Matzeliger Receives U.S. Patent 274,207 for the First Shoe Lasting Machine |
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| 1889 | Construction of Georgia's New State Capitol Is Completed |
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| 1897 | Construction of Georgia's New State Capitol Is Completed |
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| 1890 | The Arkansas Historical Society Is Organized |
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| 1895 | Newberry, Florida Is Incorporated |
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| 1896 | U.S. Marines Land in Nicaragua |
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| 1899 | Executed at New York's Sing Sing Prison, Martha Place Is First Woman to Die in the Electric Chair |
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| 1911 | New York's Winter Garden Theater Opens on Broadway |
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| 1913 | The Delaware General Assembly Passes a Bill for the Creation of a Women's College in Newark |
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| 1914 | Jacksonville Chapter of the American Red Cross Is Florida's First |
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| 1915 | British and Russians Sign Secret Agreement About the Division of the Ottoman Empire |
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| 1920 | Two Pilots Complete the First Flight from Britain to South Africa in 4 Days, 13 Hrs, 30 Min |
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| W. E. B. DuBois Gives a Lecture in St. Paul, Minnesota Sponsored by the Local Chapter of the NAACP |
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| 1928 | The New York Symphony and the New York Philharmonic Society Unite to Form the "The New York Philharmonic" |
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| 1933 | President Franklin Roosevelt Signs Economy Act Slashing Federal Salaries |
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| Heinrich Himmler Announces the Opening of the Dachau Concentration Camp 10 Miles NW of Munich |
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| Guiseppe Zangara Is Executed for the Assassination of Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak in Miami |
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| 1935 | F. Scott Fitzgerald Publishes Taps at Reveille |
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| 1939 | 7,000 Jews Flee German-occupied Lithuania |
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| 1940 | Edouard Daladier Resigns as the French Premier |
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| 1942 | City of Seattle Dismisses All Employees of Japanese Descent |
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| 1945 | British Troops Liberate Mandalay, Burma |
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| 1948 | University of Michigan Wins the First NCAA Hockey Championship |
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| 1952 | The U.S. Senate Ratifies a Peace Treaty Disarming Japan |
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| 1953 | Nikita Khrushchev 1 of 5 Men Named to the New Secretariat of the Communist Party |
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| 1954 | King & I Closes in New York City After 1246 Performances |
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| Bobby Plump's Last-Second Shot Wins the Indiana State Basketball Championship for Milan High School |
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| 1955 | The Detroit Red Wings Win Their 7th Consecutive NHL Championship |
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| 1956 | Tunisia Gains Independence from France |
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| 1961 | In England, the Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford-upon-Avon Becomes the Royal Shakespeare Theater |
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| 1964 | Two Cubans Land a Commandeered Cuban Military Helicopter in Key West, Seeking Political Asylum |
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| 1965 | President Johnson Commits Federal Troops to Protect Alabama Civil-Rights Marchers |
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| U.S. Senator, Bill Bradley of Princeton University, Scores 58 Points in His Final Collegiate Basketball Game |
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| 1966 | 6.75 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 140 in Uganda |
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| Soccer's World Cup Is Stolen from Exhibition at Central Hall in Westminster, London |
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| 1969 | Federal Grand Jury Indicts the "Chicago Eight" for Democratic Convention Riots |
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| John Lennon and Yoko Ono Are Married in Gibraltar |
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| 1970 | Arsonist Kills 20 and Injures 10 at the Ozark Hotel Fire in Seattle |
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| Georgia Makes It a Felony to Manufacture, Process, Distribute or Possess LSD |
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| Georgia Designates the Brown Thrasher as the Official State Bird |
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| Georgia Designates the Bobwhite Quail as the Official State Game Bird |
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| 1973 | Roberto Clemente Is Voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame 11 Weeks After His Death |
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| Inmates Riot at the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville |
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| 1974 | Attempted Kidnapping of England's Princess Anne Fails |
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| 1976 | Patricia Hearst, Granddaughter of Newspaper Magnate William Randolph Hearst, Is Convicted of Armed Robbery |
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| 1982 | French Conduct 20kT Underground Nuclear Test on Mururoa/Fangataufa Atolls |
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| 1985 | Libby Riddles Is the First Woman to Win the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race |
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| 1986 | President Francois Mitterrand Names Paris Mayor, Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister of France |
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| 1987 | FDA Approves Sale of AZT AIDS Treatment |
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| NASA Launches Palapa B2P Communications Satellite to Serve Southeast Asia |
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| 1990 | Namibia Becomes an Independent Nation, Ending 75 Years of South African Rule |
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| 1994 | El Salvador Holds First Election Following 12-year Civil War |
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| 1995 | Japanese Cult Releases Sarin Nerve Gas in Tokyo Subway |
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| 1997 | Liggett Group, Maker of Chesterfield Cigarettes, Settles Lawsuits with 22 States |
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| 1999 | The Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) Disbands |
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| 2002 | Lima, Peru Car Bomb Kills 9 in Advance of Visit by President Bush |
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| 2003 | U.S. Begins Invasion of Iraq |
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| 2011 | Egyptians Approve Constitutional Reforms by a 3-to-1 Margin |
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