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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 city which hosted an Olympic Games attended by Peggy Fleming (according to the International Olympic Committee):
NICK BURNS |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a Maya Lin work (according to Artcyclopedia):
CHEEP PALACE
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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 an opening-night cast member of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on this date in 1955 (according to the Internet Broadway Database):
INCLUDED DR MONK
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 Maya Lin [The-Artists.org]
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 Molly Pitcher [U.S. Field Artillery Assoc.]
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 Star Jones Born on This Date 1962
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 Dorothy Height Born on This Date 1912 [No Child Left Behind]
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 Peggy Fleming [U. of South Carolina]
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World Tuberculosis Day
(Commemorates Dr Robert Koch's announcement of the discovery of the cause of tuberculosis: 03/24/1882) |
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Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Covenant Day
(Commemoration of the enactment of the covenant to establish the CNMI: 03/24/1976) |
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| 1920 | Bill Cleaver (Oklahoma-born Children's Author) |
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| Mary Stolz (Massachusetts-born Children's Author) |
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| 1929 | Mary Margaret Clark (Mississippi-born Author of Musicals for Children) |
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| 1763 | Jean Paul Richter (German Author) |
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| 1912 | Walter G. Cowan (Mississippi-born Journalist) |
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| 1919 | Lawrence Ferlinghetti (New York City-born Poet, Publisher) |
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| 1855 | Arthur Wing Pinero (English Playwright) |
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| Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner (South African Author) |
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| 1869 | Emile Fabre (French Playwright and Administrator of the Comedie-Francaise) |
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| 1916 | Donald Hamilton (Swedish Author) |
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| 1926 | Dario Fo (Italian Playwright, Actor; 1997 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1834 | William Morris (English Artist, Designer, Poet) |
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| 1886 | Edward Weston (Illinois-born Photographer) |
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| 1740 | John Antes (Pennsylvania-born Composer) |
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| 1820 | Fanny J. Crosby (New York-born Hymnist) |
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| 1494 | Georgius Agricola (German Scientist: "Father of Mineralogy") |
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| 1860 | Wilhelm Reich (Austrian Psychologist) |
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| 1890 | John Charles Rock (Massachusetts-born Pioneer in Development and Promotion of Oral Contraceptives) |
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| 1903 | Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (German Biochemist: 1939 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) |
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| 1917 | John Cowdery Kendrew (English Scientist: 1962 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) |
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| 1834 | John Wesley Powell (New York-born Western Explorer, Pioneer) |
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| 1855 | Andrew Mellon (Pennsylvania-born Financier, Philanthropist, Secretary of the U.S. Treasury) |
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| 1755 | Rufus King (Member of the Constitutional Convention, Ambassador, U.S. Senator) |
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| 1828 | Horace Gray (Massachusetts-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1863 | William Sherman Jennings (Illinois-born Governor of Florida) |
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| 1902 | Thomas E. Dewey (Michigan-born Governor of New York, Presidential Candidate: 1944, 1948) |
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| 1912 | Dorothy Height (Virginia-born African-American Civil Rights Activist) |
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| 1874 | Harry Houdini (Hungarian-American Illusionist) |
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| 1887 | Fatty Arbuckle (Kansas-born Silent Screen Actor) |
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| 1964 | Lisa Gay Hamilton (Los Angeles-born Actress) |
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| Star Jones (North Carolina-born African-American Television Personality) |
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| 1930 | Steve McQueen (Indiana-born Actor) |
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| 1976 | Peyton Manning (Louisiana-born Professional Football Player) |
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| 1603 | Queen Elizabeth I of England |
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| 1661 | William Leddra (The Last Quaker Executed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans) |
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| 1882 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Maine-born Poet) |
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| 1886 | Ward Hunt (New York City-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1910 | Galen Clark (California Naturalist, Author' "Protector of Yosemite") |
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| 1953 | Queen Mary of England (Wife of George V and Mother to Edward VIII and George VI) |
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| 1990 | An Wang (Chinese-American Computer Pioneer) |
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| 1603 | King James I Unites the Crowns of England and Scotland Upon the Death of Elizabeth I |
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| 1661 | William Leddra Is the Last Quaker Executed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans |
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| 1663 | King Charles II Signs Charter Granting Carolina Colony to Royal Supporters |
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| 1672 | Delaware Governor Francis Lovelace Meets with Indians in a Peace Council |
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| 1765 | Parliament Passes Quartering Act Requiring American Colonists to Provide Room and Board for British Soldiers |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a Cloudy morning wind from the N E the after part of the Day fair, Several Indians visit us to day, prepareing to Set out on our journey Saw Swans & wild Gees flying N E this evening
Ordway:
6 men Sent up to take the perogues down to the Fort, but they returned about noon without them as they were not corked nor made ready. two men making cages for the Magpyes and the prarie hens which is to be Sent down the River
[Lewis and Clark sent live specimens of four black-billed magpies, a prairie dog (not mentioned here), and a sharp-tailed grouse, Tympanuchus phasianellus, to Jefferson in April 1805. The grouse did not survive, but Jefferson did receive a lone magpie and a single prairie dog.]
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| 1806 |
Clark: Sent out 15 men verry early this morning for the flesh of the two Elk killed by Drewyer and Fields yesterday. they returned at 8 oClock, after taking a Slight brackfast we Set out at half past 9 a. m. and proceeded to the Cath lah mah Village at 1 P. M. and remained untill ½ after 3 p. m. [On Cathlamet Bay, in the vicinity of Knappa, Clatsop County, Oregon; the people were Cathlamets] at this village we purchased a fiew wappato and a Dog for our Sick men Willard and Bratten who are yet in a weak State.
at this Village I saw two very large elegant Canoes inlaid with Shills, those Shills I took to be teeth at first View, and the nativs informed Several of the men that they the teeth of their enemies which they had killed in War. in examineing of them Closely haveing taken out Several pices, we found that were Sea Shells they also deckerate The Village of these people is the dirtiest and Stinkingest place I ever Saw in any Shape whatever, and the inhabitants partake of the characteristic of the Village.
we proceeded on through Some difficult and narrow Channels between the Seal Islands [Karlson and Marsh islands Soon after we made our Camp 2 Indians visited us from the opposite Side, one of them Spoke Several words of English and repeeted the names of the traders, and many of the Salors. made 16 Miles
Ordway:
I and 14 men went out eairly this morning and brought in the flesh of the 2 Elk killed by the hunters yesterday.
Gass:
After a bad night's rest, on account of the rain 15 men went out and brought the meat of the two elk to our camp.
The morning was fair and after breakfast they all embarked, except the men belonging to my canoe which the tide had left aground. The hunters went on in the small canoe ahead, and I had to wait for the rising of the tide. In about two hours I was able to follow the other canoes, and proceeded on about 12 miles, to a village of the Cath-la-mas where the rest of the party had halted.
When I arrived we all proceeded on again, and in the evening encamped at an old village, which had been vacated.
[Northeast of Brownsmead, Clatsop County, Oregon. The village is discussed at Clark's entry of November 11, 1805]
Whitehouse:
This morning early, Our officers sent 15 of our party out, in order to bring in the Meat of the 2 Elk,
At half past 9 o clock A. M. we embarked & proceeded on to an Indian Village of the Cath-le-mah Tribe, which lay
We continued on about One Mile & encamped on the So. side of the River, Towards evening two of the Natives
We saw a large burying place of the Natives a short distance below where we were encamped. The method that the Natives take to deposit their Dead is, by placing them in a Canoe. The body of the deceased is rolled up in Skins of some kind of Animal. The Canoe is raised on forks & poles some distance up from the ground, & all the property that the deceased died possessed of is put into the Canoe, with the body of the deceased Indian.
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| 1813 | A Troop of Militiamen under General John Tipton's Command Fight and Defeat an Indian War Party in Jackson County, Indiana |
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| 1821 | The Spanish Inquisition Is Abolished |
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| 1825 | Mexican Law Invites Anglos to Colonize Texas |
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| 1832 | Creek Indians Sign Treaty Ceding All Land East of the Mississippi River |
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| 1836 | Lincoln Completes First Step to Obtaining a Law License - Buys Two Properties in Springfield, IL |
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| 1840 | Seminole Warriors Kill Two U.S. Soldiers Near Florida's Fort King |
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| Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana Is Created |
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| 1849 | Virginia Slave, Henry "Box" Brown, Completes His Escape from Richmond to Philadelphia Inside a Shipping Crate |
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| Abraham Lincoln Writes Two Letters About His Family History |
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| 1853 | William Rufus King of Selma, Alabama, Is Inaugurated as Vice President of the United States in Cuba |
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| 1858 | The Printing Press of the St. Cloud Visiter Is Destroyed by a Mob Supporting a Local Slave Owner |
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| 1862 | Abraham Lincoln Thanks Horace Greeley for Support of Gradual, Compensated Emancipation |
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| Cincinnati Audience Boos Speech by Abolitionist Wendall Phillips |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln Spends the Evening with General Grant at the White House |
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| 1865 | President and Mrs. Lincoln Arrive in Virginia to Meet with General Grant and Their Son |
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| 1873 | In Arkansas, Baxter and Clay Counties Are Created |
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| 1874 | In Portland, Oregon, Members of the Women's Temperance Prayer League Begin Invading Local Saloons |
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| 1875 | Delaware Governor John Cochran Appoints James H. Groves of Smyrna as the First State Superintendent of Schools at $1,800 Per Annum |
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| 1882 | Dr. Robert Koch Announces Discovery of the Bacteria Responsible for Tuberculosis |
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| 1883 | Long-Distance Telephone Service Is Inaugurated Between Chicago and New York City |
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| 1888 | The Nation's Oldest Athletic Conference, the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Is Founded |
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| 1890 | U.S. Supreme Court: States May Not Cap Railroad Profits |
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| 1899 | President and Mrs. William McKinley Visit Tallahassee, Florida |
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| 1900 | Carnegie Steel Company Incorporates in Defiance of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law |
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| 1910 | Mount Hope, West Virginia Is Destroyed by Fire |
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| 1911 | Arkansas' First Auto License Act Is Passed by the State Legislature |
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| 1917 | Detroit Northwestern Wins Michigan's First Boys Basketball State Championship |
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| 1918 | German Forces Cross the Somme River |
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| 1921 | Arkansas' Old Legislature Is Converted into the State War Memorial |
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| 1923 | 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 5,000 in China |
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| 1934 | U.S. Congress Passes Tydings-McDuffie Act Granting Independence to the Philippines, July 4, 1946 |
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| Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour Radio Program Debuts |
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| 1936 | The Detroit Red Wings Win the Longest Stanley Cup Game in History |
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| 1939 | The Georgia General Assembly Ratifies the U.S. Bill of Rights |
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| Basil Rathbone Debuts in His First of Fourteen Films as Sherlock Holmes |
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| 1941 | Native Son, Based on the Book by Richard Wright, Opens on Broadway at the St. James Theatre |
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| 1944 | Nazis Kill 335 Italian Civilians in Retaliation for Bombing a SS Unit in Rome |
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| 1945 | Billboard Publishes Its First Pop-music Chart for Albums |
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| 1949 | President Harry Truman Authorizes $16M in Aid for Displaced Palestinian Refugees |
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| 1954 | Stockholders Approve Merger of Nash & Hudson to Form American Motors |
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| 1955 | Tennessee Williams' Play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Opens in New York |
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| 1958 | King Saud of Saudi Arabia Signs Over Executive Power to Faisal |
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| Elvis Presley Arrives at the Memphis, Tennessee Draft Board |
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| 1959 | Charles Townes Is Granted a Patent for the Maser, the Precursor to the Laser |
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| 1961 | NASA Successfully Launches Mercury Redstone Booster Rocket in Preparation for a Manned Mission |
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| 1962 | Emile Griffith Kills Benny Paret in a World Welterweight Boxing Championship Fight |
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| 1964 | The First Kennedy Half Dollar Coins Are Released into Circulation |
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| 1965 | A White Selma-Montgomery Marcher Is Killed by Klansmen |
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| NASA's Ranger 6 Probe Successfully Crashes into the Lunar Surface |
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| More Than 30,000 Students on Spring Break Begin a 3-day Riot in Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| 1966 | in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, US Supreme Court Rules Poll Taxes Are Unconstitutional |
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| 1970 | The State of Georgia Designates the Largemouth Bass as the State's Official Fish |
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| 1972 | The British Government Imposes Direct Rule on Northern Ireland |
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| 1975 | North Vietnamese Launch "Ho Chi Minh Campaign" |
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| 1976 | The President of Argentina, Isabel Peron, Is Deposed by Her Country's Military |
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| President Ford Signs Public Law Enacting Covenant of Northern Mariana Islands |
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| 1977 | Morarji Desai Replaces Indira Gandhi as Prime Minister of India |
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| U.S. & Cuba Hold Direct Negotiations for First Time Since 1961 |
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| 1978 | The Amoco Cadiz Splits Spilling 1.6M Gallons of Oil into the Ocean off the French Coast |
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| 1980 | Roman Catholic Archbishop Is Shot to Death as He Celebrates Mass in San Salvador |
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| 1986 | U.S. Navy Forces Cross into the Gulf of Sidra and Sink Four Libyan Patrol Boats |
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| 1989 | Exxon Valdez Dumps 270,000 Barrels of Oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound |
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| 1992 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-45) on Scientific Mission |
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| After 151 Years Britain's Punch Magazine" Prints Final Issue |
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| 1996 | Shannon Lucid Is the First Female U.S. Astronaut to Live in a Space Station (MIR) |
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| 1999 | NATO Initiates Air Strikes Control Serbian Hostilities Against Ethnic Albanians |
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| The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds the Rights of Minnesota's Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe to Fish and Hunt on Ceded Lands without State Regulation |
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| 2000 | In Delaware, a Storm Drops Almost 5" of Rain on New Castle County |
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| 2002 | Halle Berry Is the First African-American Actress to Win an Oscar for a Leading Role |
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