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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 writer born on this date:
LINEAGE TITLE PLOP |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a 1960s work by Flannery O'Connor (according to the Authors' Calendar):
ANY MAINFRAME ROOM |
(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 Toni Cade Bambara novel (according to Prentice-Hall):
COMBINE LESS FIGS
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Waffle Day
(Observed annually on March 25) |
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Catholicism: Annunciation Day/Feast of the Annunciation
(Observed annually on this date to commemorate the message of the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, informing her that the Word of God was become flesh) |
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England: Lady Day
(Annual Commemoration of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary) |
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Greece: Independence Day
(Commemoration of independence from Turkey: 03/25/1821) |
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San Marino: Arengo
(Commemoration of the return to the Arengo form of democratic government: 03/25/1906) |
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Maryland: Maryland Day
(Commemorates the arrival of the first colonists to what is now Maryland: 03/25/1634) |
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| 1922 | Jaap terHaar (Dutch Children's Author) |
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| 1960 | Linda Sue Park (Illinois-born Children's Author Awarded the 2002 Newbery Medal for A Single Shard) |
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| 1964 | Kate DiCamillo (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author Awarded the 2004 Newbery Medal for The Tale of Despereaux) |
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| 1899 | Bella Cohen Spewack (Romanian-American Short Story Writer, Autobiographer, Script and Screenwriter) |
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| 1906 | A. J. P. Taylor (English Historian) |
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| 1920 | Paul Scott (English Author) |
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| 1925 | Flannery O'Connor (Georgia-born Novelist, Short Story Writer) |
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| 1932 | Penelope Gilliatt (English Writer, Novelist) |
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| 1939 | Toni Cade Bambara (New York City-born Rights Activist, Author, Novelist) |
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| 1941 | Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (New York-born Novelist/poet) |
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| 1736 | Nicholas Hawksmoor (English Architect) |
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| 1871 | John Gutzon Borglum (South Dakota-born Sculptor of Mount Rushmore) |
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| 1867 | Arturo Toscanini (Italian Violinist, Conductor, Composer) |
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| 1881 | Belá Bartók (Hungarian Pianist, Composer) |
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| 1863 | Simon Flexner (Kentucky-born Pathologist, Bacteriologist) |
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| 1914 | Norman Borlaug (Iowa-born Agricultural Scientist, Father of the Green Revolution, 1970 Nobel Laureate for Peace) |
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| 1928 | James Lovell (Ohio-born Astronaut) |
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| 1879 | William Knudsen (Danish-American Industrialist; President of General Motors: 1937-1940) |
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| 1827 | Stephen Luce (New York-born Founder and First President of the U.S. Naval War College in Rhode Island) |
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| 1347 | Saint Catherine of Siena (Italian Dominican Mystic; Patron Saint of Italy) |
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| 1826 | Matilda Joslyn Gage (New York-born Women's Rights Activist, Suffragist) |
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| 1854 | John Lind (Swedish-born Governor of Minnesota, U.S. Congressman, Envoy to Mexico for President Woodrow Wilson) |
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| 1934 | Gloria Steinem (Ohio-born Women's Rights Activist) |
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| 1939 | Pius Langa (Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa) |
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| 1908 | David Lean (Academy Award-Winning English Film Director of Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago, Bridge over the River Kwai) |
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| 1921 | Simone Signoret (German Actress) |
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| 1938 | Hoyt Axton (Oklahoma-born Country and Western Singer) |
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| 1940 | Anita Bryant (Oklahoma-born Singer) |
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| 1942 | Aretha Franklin (Tennessee-born African-American Popular Singer) |
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| 1943 | Paul Michael Glaser (Massachusetts-born Actor) |
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| 1946 | Bonnie Bedelia (New York City-born Actress) |
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| 1947 | Elton John (English Musician, Songwriter) |
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| 1962 | Marcia Cross (Massachusetts-born Actress) |
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| 1964 | Lisa Gay Hamilton (Los Angeles-born African-American Actress) |
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| 1965 | Sarah Jessica Parker (Ohio-born Actress) |
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| 1918 | Howard Cosell (North Carolina-born Sportscaster) |
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| 1966 | Tom Glavine (Massachusetts-born Professional Baseball Player) |
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| 1967 | Debi Thomas (New York-born African-American Member of the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame) |
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| 1971 | Sheryl Swoopes (Texas-born African-American Basketball Player) |
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| 1982 | Danica Patrick (Wisconsin-born Race Driver) |
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| 1701 | William Kidd (English Captain: Execution) |
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| 1736 | Francois-Marie Bissot de Vincennes (French Canadian Founder of Vincennes, Indiana: Burned at the Stake by Chickasaw Indians) |
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| 1809 | Anna Seward (English Poet) |
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| 1914 | Frederic Mistral (French Poet; 1904 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1918 | Claude A. Debussy (French Composer) |
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| 1975 | King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (Shot to Death by His Nephew, Prince Faisal) |
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| 1992 | Nancy Walker (Pennsylvania Actress) |
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| Harry Brawley (Charleston, West Virginia Historian, First Executive Director of the West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority) |
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| 1306 | Robert the Bruce Is Crowned King of Scotland at Scone Palace Near Perth |
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| 1409 | Council of Pisa Is Convened to Resolve the Great Catholic Schism of the West |
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| 1616 | William Shakespeare Signs His Will, the Last Document He Will Ever Produce |
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| 1634 | British Colonists Arrive at St. Clement's Island on Maryland's Western Shore and Found the Settlement of St. Mary's |
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| 1647 | The Dutch Ship Nieuwe Haerlem Is Wrecked During a Storm in South Africa's Table Bay |
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| 1655 | Christiaan Huygens Discovers Saturn's Satellite Titan |
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| 1669 | Sicily's Mount Etna Erupts: 20,000 Die |
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| 1680 | French Explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle Begins the First Exploration of Michigan's Lower Peninsula by a European |
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| 1701 | English Captain William Kidd Is Executed |
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| 1736 | Canadian Explorer, Francois-Marie Bissot de Vincennes, Is Burned at the Stake by Chickasaw Indians |
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| 1774 | British Parliament Votes to Close the Port of Boston, Demanding Payment for Tea Lost During the "Boston Tea Party" |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a find Day wind S. W. but fiew Inds visit us to day the Ice haveing broken up in Several places, The ice began to brake away this evening and was near distroying our Canoes as they wer decnding to the fort, river rose only 9 Inches to day prepareing to Depart
Ordway: 2 men Set at making a Stearing oar for the Big Barge &.C. others Shelling corn &.C.— |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: The morning being disagreeably cold we remained and took breakfast. at 7 A. M. we set out and continued our rout along the South Coast of the river against the wind and a strong current, our progress was of course but slow. at noon we halted and dined. here some Clatsops came to us in a canoe loaded with dryed anchovies, which they call Olthen', Wappetoe and Sturgeon. they informed us that they had been up on a trading voyage to the Skillutes.— after dinner we passed the river to a large Island 2 and continued our rout allong the side of the same about a mile when we arrived at a Cathlahmah fishing cam of one lodge; here we found 3 men 2 women and a couple of boys, who from appearances had remained here some time for the purpose of taking sturgeon, which they do by trolling. they had ten or douzen very fine sturgeon which had not been long taken. we offered to purchase some of their fish but they asked us such an extravegant price that we declined purchase. one of the men purchased a sea Otterskin at this lodge, for which he gave a dressed Elkskin and an handkercheif. near this lodge we met some Cathlahmahs who had been up the river on a fishing excurtion. they had a good stock of fish on board, but did not seem disposed to sell them. we remained at this place about half an hour and then continued our rout up the Island to it's head and passed to the south side. the wind in the evening was very hard. it was with some difficulty that we could find a spot proper for an encampment, the shore being a swamp for several miles back; at length late in the evening opposite to the place we had encamped on the 6th of November last; we found the entrance of a small creek which afforded us a safe harbour from the wind and encamped. the ground was low and moist tho' we obtained a tolerable encampment. here we found another party of Cathlahmahs about 10 in number who had established a temperary residence for the purpose of fishing and taking seal. they had taken a fine parcel of sturgeon and some seal. they gave us some of the fleese of the seal which I found a great improvement to the poor Elk. here we found Drewyer and the Feildses who had been seperated from us since morning; they had passed on the North side of the large Island which was much nearer.
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| 1807 | The British Abolition of the Slave Trade Bill Becomes Law |
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| England's Mumbles Train Is the World's First Railway Passenger Service |
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| 1814 | Othniel Looker Assumes Office as Ohio's 5th Governor, Following the Resignation of His Predecessor J. Meigs, Jr. |
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| 1821 | Greece Wins Independence from Turkey |
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| 1822 | Naval Officer Matthew C. Perry Raises the American Flag over Key West, Officially Declaring American Sovereignty over the Florida Keys |
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| 1843 | In Salado, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 17 of 176 Texas Prisoners Are Selected by Lottery and Executed on Orders From Mexican Dictator Santa Anna |
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| 1845 | Massachusetts Legislature Guarantees a Free Education for Every Child |
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| 1851 | The Soldiers of the Mariposa Battalion Are the First Euro-Americans to Enter California's Yosemite Valley |
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| 1863 | The U.S.S. Fort Henry Captures the Blockade Runner Ranger Off the Coast of Florida's Cedar Key |
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| 1865 | In Virginia, Robert E. Lee Fails to Prevent the Fall of Petersburg with His Attempt to Attack Fort Stedman |
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| 1875 | Hope, Arkansas Is Incorporated |
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| The Delaware General Assembly Passes Jim Crow Laws Restricting African-American Access to Venues Such as Theaters, Restaurants and Hotels |
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| 1879 | Cheyenne Chief Little Wolf Surrenders to U.S. Army Unit |
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| 1886 | At White Earth, Minnesota, the Inaugural Issue of Progress Is the First English-Language Paper Published on an Indian Reservation |
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| 1899 | The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton Is Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York |
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| 1901 | Gottlieb Daimler Mercedes Wins Race in Nice, France by 30 Minutes |
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| 1905 | Britain & U.S. Establish the Canadian-Alaska Border |
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| 1910 | Mount Dora, Florida Is Incorporated |
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| 1911 | New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Catches Fire: 146 Die |
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| 1917 | The Oregon National Guard Begins Mobilizing in Response to a Call Issued by President Wilson |
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| 1918 | The Former Russian Province of Belarus Declares Itself an Independent, Democratic Republic |
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| 50 Mexicans Raid and Ransack the Neville Ranch in Presidio County, Texas; Killing Neville's Son and Housekeeper |
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| 1920 | Walter P. Chrysler Resigns as Executive Vice President in Charge of Automotive Operations for General Motors |
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| 1927 | E. Coke Hill Takes Office as U.S District Judge for the Third Judicial Division Headquartered at Valdez, Alaska |
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| 1929 | Driving His Boat, Miss America VII, Gar Wood Establishes a New World Water Speed Record of 93.123 mph at Florida's Miami Beach Regatta |
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| 1931 | Alabama Authorities Charge the Scottsboro Boys with the Rapes of Two White Women |
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| 1932 | Voting 6-1, the Alabama Supreme Court Upholds the Convictions of Seven of the Scottsboro Boys |
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| Tarzan the Ape Man Premieres in New York City |
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| 1933 | President Herbert Hoover Accepts the Newly Commissioned USS Sequoia as the Official Presidential Yacht |
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| 1934 | Missouri Golf Pro, Horton Smith, Wins the First Masters Golf Tournament |
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| 1935 | Financier Paul van Zeeland Forms the Government of National Unity in Belgium to Address the Kingdom's Financial Problems |
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| William Faulkner's Novel, Pylon, Is Published by Smith |
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| 1936 | New Zealand Parliament Is the First in the World to Broadcast Debates on Radio |
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| 1941 | Yugoslavia Joins Axis Powers Germany, Italy & Japan |
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| 1946 | The Soviet Union Announces the Withdrawal of Its Troops From Iran |
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| 1947 | A Coal Mine Explosion in Centralia, Illinois Kills 111 People |
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| 1949 | University of California Regents Decide All Employees Must Swear They Are Not Communists |
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| Laurence Olivier's Hamlet Is First British Film to Win an Oscar |
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| 1954 | RCA Manufactures the First Color Television |
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| 1955 | Blackboard Jungle Is Released |
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| U.S. Customs Confiscates Ginsberg's Howl for Obscenity |
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| 1957 | France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg Sign a Treaty in Rome Establishing the Common Market |
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| 1958 | Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Adopts Industry Standards for Stereophonic Records |
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| Sugar Ray Robinson Defeats Carmen Basilio to Regain Boxing's Middleweight Championship. |
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| 1960 | U.S. Launches First Guided Missile from a Nuclear Sub |
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| 1961 | Nelson Mandela Is Appointed the Secretary of the National Action Council During the All Africa Conference Attended by 1,400 Delegates |
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| U.S. Explorer 10 Launched to Test the Earth's Magnetosphere |
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| 1962 | Arnold Palmer Wins His Second Masters Championship |
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| 1963 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaks at the University of Virginia on "The Future of Integration" |
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| Karl F. Rolvaag Is Sworn in as Governor of Minnesota, Having Beaten Elmer L. Andersen by 91 Votes in the State's Closest Gubernatorial Election |
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| 1965 | 25,000 People Led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Complete the Freedom March from Selma to the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery |
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| 1967 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Attacks the U.S. Government's Vietnam Policy in Chicago Coliseum Speech |
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| USSR Conducts 20kT Underground Nuclear Test in Kazakhstan |
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| 1968 | U.S. Conducts 20kT Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada |
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| President Lyndon Johnson Meets with the 9 "Wise Men" to Discuss Plans for the Vietnam War |
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| 1970 | Concorde Makes Its First Supersonic Flight (700 mph) |
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| 1973 | Tommy Aaron Is the Second Georgia-born Golfer to Win the Masters |
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| 1975 | In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, King Faisal Is Shot to Death by His Nephew, Prince Faisal |
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| In London, Members of an Extreme Right-Wing British Party Protest Against Integration with Europe |
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| 1976 | 4.8 Magnitude Earthquake Jolts Northeastern Turkey, Killing One Person |
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| 1977 | 5.2 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 30 in Turkey's Lice-Palu Area |
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| 1983 | Michael Jackson Takes His First "Moonwalk" for a Live Audience |
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| 5.2 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 30 in Iran's Damavand-Amol Area |
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| 1984 | David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross Opens on Broadway |
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| 1988 | NASA Launches San Marco-D/L Spacecraft to Explore the Relationship Between Solar Activity and Thermosphere-Ionosphere Phenomena |
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| 1990 | The "Seven-Day War" Begins in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Province - 3,000 Homes Will Be Razed, 200 People Will Die |
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| 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Severely Damages 60 Buildings Kills in Costa Rica |
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| 1992 | Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev Returns to Earth After 10 Months |
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| 1994 | In South Africa, 100,000 Participate in an African National Congress March Demanding Voting Rights |
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| U.S. Troops Complete Withdrawal from Somalia Ending 15-month Mission |
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| 1996 | Comet Hyakutake Comes within 0.1018 Astronomical Units of Earth |
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| 2000 | In Northern Ireland, David Trimble Narrowly Fends Off a Challenge to His Leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party |
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| 2001 | Julia Roberts Receives the Academy Award for Best Actress in the Title Role of the Movie Erin Brockovich |
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| 2002 | 6.1 Earthquake Devastates Nahrin, Afghanistan: 2,000 Die |
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