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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:
AREA GRAM MYTH |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a work of poetry by Phyllis McKinley (according to the Academy of American Poets):
PUFF TOY LACEWORK |
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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 1994 movie in which Rosie O'Donnell appeared (according to the Internet Movie Database):
HEEL FONTS TINTS |
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 Phyllis McGinley Born on This Date 1905 [Born Today]
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 Ellen Ochoa [HHAF]
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 Rosie O'Donnell Born on This Date 1962
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 Pocahontas [University of Texas]
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 Pat Summitt [Washington Speakers Bureau]
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United Nations: International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination
(Observed on this date in remembrance of South Africa's Sharpeville Massacre of students protesting apartheid: 03/21/1960) |
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Nowrooz (Noruz), the Persian New Year
(First day following the vernal equinox) |
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Children's Poetry Day
(Observed annually on March 21) |
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Lesotho: National Tree Planting Day
(Observed annually on March 21) |
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Mexico: Benito Juarez's Birthday
(Commemoration of birth date of former Mexican reform leader and president: 03/21/1806) |
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Namibia: Independence Day
(Celebration of independence from South Africa 03/21/1990) |
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South Africa: Human Rights Day
(Observed on this date in remembrance of the massacre of students protesting apartheid: 03/21/1960) |
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Tunisia: Youth Day
(Observed annually on March 21) |
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| 1905 | Phyllis McGinley (Oregon-born Poet, Children's Author Awarded the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) |
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| 1936 | Margaret Mahy (New Zealand Children's Author) |
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| 1938 | Michael Foreman (English Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1943 | Ann E. Weiss (Massachusetts-born Children's Author) |
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| 1953 | David Wisniewski (American Children's Author, Illustrator: 1997 Caldecott Award Winner) |
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| 1763 | Jean Paul Richter (German Author) |
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| 1857 | Alice Henry (Australian Journalist, Women's Suffrage and Civil Rights Activist) |
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| 1923 | Nizar Quabbani (Syrian Poet, Diplomat) |
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| 1685 | Johann Sebastian Bach (German Classical Composer) |
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| 1839 | Modest Mussorgsky (Russian Classical Composer) |
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| 1932 | Joseph Silverstein (Detroit-born Violinist, Conductor) |
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| 1768 | Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (French Mathematician) |
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| 1877 | Maurice Farman (French Aircraft Designer and Manufacturer) |
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| 1932 | Walter Gilbert (Massachusetts-born Molecular Biologist: 1980 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) |
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| 1906 | John D. Rockefeller III (New York City-born Philanthropist) |
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| 1856 | Henry O. Flipper (Georgia-born First African-American Graduate of West Point Academy) |
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| 1864 | George Edgar Vincent (Illinois-born Third President of the University of Minnesota: 1911-1917) |
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| 1713 | Francis Lewis (Welsh-American Signer of Declaration of Independence) |
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| 1786 | Joseph Vance (13th Governor of Ohio) |
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| 1794 | Emily Thomas Tubman (Virginia-born Philanthropist Who Sent 42 Slaves to Liberia Against Georgia Law) |
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| 1806 | Benito Pablo Juarez (Mexican President, Reform Leader) |
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| 1890 | Clayton Douglass Buck, Sr. (Delaware Governor, 1929-1937; U.S. Senator, 1943-1949) |
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| 1918 | Patrick Lucey (Governor of Wisconsin) |
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| 1869 | Florenz Ziegfeld (Chicago-born Theatrical Producer) |
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| 1882 | "Broncho Billy" Anderson (Arkansas-born Actor: The First Western Movie Star) |
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| 1902 | Son House (Mississippi-born African-American Jazz Musician) |
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| 1930 | Otis Spann (Mississippi-born African-American Blues Pianist) |
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| 1940 | Solomon Burke (Pennsylvaniai-born African-American Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) |
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| 1944 | Timothy Dalton (Welsh Actor) |
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| 1958 | Gary Oldman (English Actor) |
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| 1962 | Matthew Broderick (New York-born Actor) |
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| Rosie O'Donnell (New York-born Comedienne, Actress) |
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| 1878 | John Walter Tewksbury (Pennsylvania-born Sprinter, Olympic Gold Medalist) |
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| 1889 | Jock Sutherland (Scottish-American Collegiate and Professional Football Coach) |
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| 1960 | Ayrton Senna (Brazilian Race Driver) |
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| 1201 | Absalon of Lund (Danish Churchman, Statesman and Soldier) |
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| 1556 | Thomas Cranmer (English Archbishop of Canterbury, Burned at the Stake on Orders of Mary, Queen of Scots) |
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| 1617 | Pocahontas (Powhatan Indian Princess Who Converted to Christianity and Married John Rolfe, a Jamestown Colonist) |
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| 1778 | Charles Wesley (English Hymnist: Author of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing") |
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| 1863 | Edwin Vose Sumner (Massachusetts-born Union General) |
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| 1915 | F. W. Taylor (Pennsylvania-born Inventor, Pioneer in Industrial Management) |
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| 1953 | David Scholtz (26th Governor of Florida: 1933-1937) |
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| 1955 | Walter White (Georgia-born African-American Civil Rights Leader, Statesman, Author) |
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| 1966 | Edith Wilmans (Louisiana-born, First Woman Elected to the Texas legislature) |
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| 1987 | Robert Preston (Massachusetts-born Actor) |
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| 1994 | MacDonald Carey (Iowa-born Actor) |
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| 1999 | Ernie Wise (English Comedian) |
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| 2002 | Herman Talmadge (Georgia Governor, Senator) |
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| 1556 | Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, Is Burned at the Stake on Orders of Mary, Queen of Scots |
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| 1747 | John Newton, Slave Ship Sea Captain, Repents During Violent Storm: Will Write "Amazing Grace" |
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| 1778 | Loyalist Militia Massacre Patriots and Loyalists Alike Near Salem, New Jersey |
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| 1788 | Fire Destroys 856 Buildings in New Orleans |
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| 1801 | France Reaffirms Spain's Secret Cession of the Louisiana Territory with the Convention of Aranjuez |
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| 1804 | Napoleon's Civil Code Is Published |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a Cloudy Day Some snow, the men Carried the remaining the 2 remained Canoes to the River, all except 3 left to take care & complete the Canoes, returned to the fort with their baggage, on my return to day to the Fort I came on the points of the high hills, Saw an emence quantity of Pumice Stone on the Sides & foot of the hills and emence beds of Pumice Stone near the Tops of the [hills] with evident marks of the Hill haveing once been on fire, I collected Some the differnt i e Stone Pumice Stone & a hard earth and put them into a furnace the hard earth melted and glazed the others two and the hard Clay became a pumice Stone Glazed. I collected Some plants &c.
[Pumice is frothy volcanic glass. When heated in a furnace it will fuse; some clays, when heated to about 2000° F, expand and resemble somewhat the
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the wind from the S. E. about 2 oClock Capt. Clark and 4 men |
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| 1806 |
Clark: as we could not Set out we thought it best to Send out Some hunters and accordingly dispatched Shields and Collins on this Side of the Netul for that purpose with orders to return in the evening or Sooner if they were Successfull. they returned late in the evening unsuccessfull. we have not now more than two days provisions on hand. we derected Drewyer and the two Fieldses to Set out tomorrow morning early, and indevour to provide us Some provision on the Bay beyond point William. we were visited to day by Some Clatsops who left us in the evening.
our sick men Willard and Bratten do not Seem to recover; the former was taken with a violent pain in his leg and |
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| 1825 | New York's Common Council Passes a Law Forbidding the Sale of Out-of-Season Game |
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| 1854 | The First Chapter of the YMCA in Indianapolis Is Established |
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| 1859 | The National Gallery of Scotland Opens in Edinburgh |
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| 1861 | The Confederate States of America Establishes a Patent Office |
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| Alexander Stephans, Vice-President of the Confederacy, Gives His "Cornerstone Speech" |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln Signs Proclamation Admitting Nevada to the Union as of October 31, 1864 |
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| President Lincoln Acknowledges an Afgan Sent to Him by Two New York School Children |
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| 1865 | Confederate Forces Repel Union attack at Bentonville, North Carolina |
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| President and Mrs. Lincoln Attend Boieldieu's Opera "La Dame Blanche" at Grover's Theatre |
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| President and Mrs. Lincoln Make Plans to Visit Their Son, Robert, in City Point, Virginia |
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| 1871 | Henry Stanley Begins Expedition into Africa's Interior in Search of Dr. Livingstone |
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| 1888 | A Spring Flood in Cloquet, Minnesota Causes a Log Boom to Break, Destroying the Log Harvest |
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| 1891 | Eau Claire, Michigan Is Incorporated |
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| 1900 | The Chicago Evangelization Society Is Renamed Moody Bible Institute |
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| 1904 | 5.1 Magnitude Earthquake in Southeast Maine Is Largest in State's Recorded History |
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| 1913 | Governor Walter E. Clark Approves the First Act of the First Territorial Legislature, Giving Alaska Women the Right to Vote. |
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| 1917 | Loretta Walsh Is the First Female Petty Officer in U.S. Navy |
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| 1918 | German Attack Launches the Second Battle of the Somme |
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| 1921 | Delaware College in Newark Becomes the University of Delaware |
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| 1925 | Tennessee Governor, Austin Peay, Signs the Butler Bill Banning the Teaching of Evolution in Schools |
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| 1929 | Present Coolidge Presents Congressional Medal of Honor to Charles Lindbergh |
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| 1932 | In Two Days, 33 Tornados Kill 359 People in 6 Southeast States |
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| 1935 | Persia Is Officially Renamed Iran |
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| 1936 | The Worst Flood in the Massachusetts' Recorded History Devastates Springfield |
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| 1939 | Kate Smith Records "God Bless America" |
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| 1941 | Eastern Standard Time Is Established as Only Standard Time Zone for the State of Georgia |
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| 1942 | The First Japanese Americans Arrive at California's Manzanar Internment Camp |
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| 1943 | General von Gersdorff Fails in Attempt to Kill Hitler in Berlin |
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| 1945 | Allied Bombers Begin Four Days of Raids over Germany |
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| 1946 | United Nations Sets Up Temporary Headquarters at Hunter College in New York City |
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| Kenny Washington Signs with the Los Angeles Rams as the First African-American Player in the NFL |
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| 1947 | Truman Signs Executive Order Requiring Federal Employees Loyalty Check |
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| 1949 | WTVJ-TV, Miami, Florida's First Television Station, Begins Broadcasting |
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| 1951 | Sinclair Lewis' Twenty-second and Final Novel World So Wide Is Published |
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| 1952 | The World's First Rock Concert Is Held at Cleveland Arena |
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| 28 Tornados Ravage Arkansas and Tennessee: 204 Die |
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| 1953 | Antonín Zápotocky Is Chosen President of Czechoslovakia |
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| A Tornado Kills One Person in St. Cloud, Minnesota |
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| 1957 | Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending Premieres |
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| 1958 | 15.6" of Snow Falls in New Castle County, Delaware |
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| USSR Conducts 650 kT Atmospheric Nuclear Test |
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| 1960 | Police Kill 69 Protesters in Sharpeville, South Africa |
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| 1961 | Beatles Make Their First Evening Appearance at Liverpool's Cavern Club |
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| 1963 | Alcatraz Penitentiary Is Closed |
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| 1965 | 3,200 Freedom Marchers Begin 4-day Walk from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama |
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| NASA Launches Ranger 9 for March 24 Lunar Impact Landing |
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| 1966 | Supreme Court Rules Fanny Hill Not Obscene |
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| 1967 | Vietnamese Reject Johnson's Proposal for Peace Talks |
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| 1969 | U.S. Conducts 100 kT Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada |
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| 1972 | Supreme Court Rules Tennessee Residency Law Violates Voting Rights |
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| USAF B-52, with a Crew of Seven, Crashes a Residential Section of Orlando, Florida |
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| 1977 | 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 167 and Leaves 7,000 Homeless in Iran |
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| 1980 | President Carter Tells Athletes U.S. Will Boycott the Moscow Olympics |
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| West Virginia Teachers Protest Legislature's Failure to Approve Larger Increase in Salaries |
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| On "Dallas", J.R. Is Shot |
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| 1982 | 6.7 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered on Japan's Hokkaido Region |
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| 1985 | South African Police Kill 21 Blacks Marching to Mark 25th Anniversary of Sharpeville Shootings |
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| 1991 | Namibia Gains Independence from South Africa |
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| British Government Unveils New Plan for Property Tax |
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| 1997 | Papers of James Meredith Are Accepted by the University of Mississippi's Special Collections |
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| 1999 | Breitling Orbiter 3 Completes First Non-stop Around-the-world Balloon Flight |
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| 2000 | U.S. Supreme Court Rules Government Cannot Regulate Tobacco as an Addictive Drug |
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| 2001 | 18" of Rain Fall on the Minnesota Twin Cities |
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