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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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| Why do you teach? Let Us Know. | 
| Tell Us about your most memorable teacher. |
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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 performing artist born on this date:
SAIL JET LUIS |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of 2003 film in which Julia Stiles appeared (according to the Internet Movie Database):
MANILA ELI MOSS |
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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 Dianne Wiest appeared (according to the Internet Movie Database):
VOTERS BEARABLY WOULD |
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 Byrd Baylor Born on This Date 1924 [Harcourt School]
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 Helen Brooke Taussig [Gale Group] 
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 Reba McEntire Born on This Date 1955 [Official Website]
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 Lucretia Mott [New York Times]
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 Michelle Wie
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Czech Republic: Teachers' Day
(Celebration of the birth of Jan Amos Komensky: 03/28/1592) |
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Libya: British Evacuation Day
(Commemoration of British military withdrawal: 03/28/1970) |
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| 1924 | Byrd Baylor (Texas-born Children's Author) |
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| 1868 | Maxim Gorky (Russian Author) |
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| 1909 | Nelson Ahlgren (Michigan-born Novelist) |
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| 1931 | Jane Rule (New Jersey-born Novelist) |
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| 1936 | Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian Novelist Awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature) |
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| 1940 | Russell Banks (Massachusetts-born Author) |
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| 1925 | Ed Wilson (Maryland-born African-American Metal Sculptor) |
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| 1903 | Rudolf Serkin (Czech Classical Pianist) |
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| 1930 | Robert Ashley (Michigan-born Composer) |
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| 1897 | Victor Mills (Nebraska-born Chemical Engineer Who Invented Pampers, Ivory Soap and JIF Peanut Butter) |
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| 1793 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (New York-born Explorer: Found the Source of the Mississippi River) |
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| 1652 | William Byrd (English-American Planter, Merchant, Political Leader) |
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| 1834 | Rufus Bullock (New York-born Georgia Business and Political Leader) |
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| 1899 | August Anheuser Busch, Jr.(Missouri-born Brewer) |
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| 1515 | Saint Teresa of Avila (Spanish-born Roman Catholic Saint) |
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| 1660 | George I (German-born King of Great Britain and Ireland) |
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| 1760 | Thomas Clarkson (English Abolitionist) |
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| 1862 | Aristide Briand (French Statesman) |
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| 1914 | Edmund Muskie (Maine-born Politician, Statesman) |
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| 1928 | Zbigniew Brzezinski (Polish-American Political Scientist) |
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| 1898 | Paul Whiteman (Colorado-born Bandleader) |
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| 1914 | Frank Lovejoy (New York-born Actor) |
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| 1921 | Dirk Bogarde (English Actor) |
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| 1924 | Freddie Bartholomew (Irish Actor) |
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| 1944 | Ken Howard (California-born Actor) |
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| 1948 | Dianne Wiest (Missouri-born Actress: Emmy Award and 2 Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress) |
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| 1955 | Reba McEntire (Oklahoma-born County Singer, Actress) |
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| 1970 | Vince Vaughn (Minnesota-born Actor) |
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| 1981 | Julia Stiles (New York-born Actress) |
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| 1944 | Rick Barry (New Jersey-born Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1814 | Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (French Inventor of the Guillotine) |
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| 1881 | Modest Mussorgsky (Russian Classical Composer) |
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| 1893 | Edmund Kirby Smith (Florida-born Last Surviving Full General of the Confederate Army) |
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| 1910 | David Brewer (Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1929 | Katherine L. Bates (Massachusetts-born English Teacher, Author of "America the Beautiful") |
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| 1935 | Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos (South African Statesman and Jurist) |
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| 1941 | Virginia Woolf (English Author) |
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| 1943 | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (Russian Classical Composer) |
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| 1953 | Jim Thorpe (Oklahoma-born Native-American Olympic Champion; Member of the College and Professional Football Hall's of Fame) |
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| 1958 | W.C. Handy (Alabama-born African-American Jazz Musician, Composer) |
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| 1969 | Dwight Eisenhower (Texas-born Commander of U.S. Troops in World War II, 34th President of the United States) |
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| 1979 | Emmett Kelly (Kansas-born Circus Clown) |
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| 1987 | Maria von Trapp (Austrian Matriarch of the Von Trapp Family Singers of "Sound of Music" Fame) |
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| 1992 | William Maupins (Minnesota Civil Rights Leader) |
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| 1994 | Eugene Ionesco (Romanian Playwright) |
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| 1638 | Willem Kieft. the New Director-General of the New Netherlands Colony, Arrives in New Amsterdam |
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| 1774 | British Parliament Enacts the Coercive Acts to Restore Order Following the Boston "Tea Party |
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| 1776 | Juan Bautista de Anza Selects the Site for San Francisco |
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| 1797 | Nathaniel Briggs Patents a Washing Machine |
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| 1804 |
 Clark: It is a very cloudy morning. All people are working to prepare for the voyage up the Missouri. Captain Louis arrived at 4 o'clock from St. Louis. |
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| 1805 |
Clark: The ice has Stoped running owing to Som obstickle above, repare the Boat & Perogues, and prepareing to Set out but few Indians visit us to day they are now attending on the river bank to Catch the floating Buffalow [The carcasses of buffalo drowned in the river were an important source of meat for the tribes of the upper Missouri, and a fairly advanced state of decomposition added to the attraction.] |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: This morning we set out very early and at 9 A. M. arrived at the old Indian Village on Lard side of Deer Island where we found our hunters had halted and left one man with the two canoes at their camp; they had arrived last evening at this place and six of them turned out to hunt very early this morning; by 10 A. M. they all returned to camp having killed seven deer. these were all of the common fallow deer with the long tail. I measured the tail of one of these bucks which was upwards of 17 Inches long; they are very poor, tho' they are better than the black tailed fallow deer of the coast. these are two very distinct speceis of deer. the Indians call this large Island E-lal-lar or deer island which is a very appropriate name. the hunters informed us that they had seen upwards of a hundred deer this morning on this island. at ½ after ten A. M. it became fair, and we had the canoes which wanted repairing halled out and with the assistance of fires which we had kindled for the purpose dryed them sufficiently to receive the pitch which was immediately put on them; at 3 in the evening we had them compleat and again launched and reloaded. we should have set out, but as some of the party whom we had permitted to hunt since we arrived have not yet returned we determined to remain this evening and dry our beding baggage &c. the weather being fair. Since we landed here we were visited by a large canoe with ten natives of the quathlahpahtle nation who are numerous and reside about seventeen miles above us on the lard. side of the Columbia, at the entrance of a small river. they do not differ much in their dress from those lower down and speak nearly the same language, it is in fact the same with a small difference of accent. we saw a great number of snakes on this island they were about the size and much the form of the common garter snake of the Atlantic coast and like that snake are not poisonous. they have 160 scuta on the abdomen and 71 on the tail. the men who had been sent after the deer returned and brought in the remnent which the Vultures and Eagles had left us; these birds had devoured 4 deer in the course of a few hours. the party killed and brought in three other deer a goose some ducks and an Eagle. Drewyer also killed a tiger cat. Joseph Fields informed me that the Vultures had draged a large buck which he had killed about 30 yards, had skined it and broken the back bone. we came five miles only today.—
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| 1820 | St. Clair County, Michigan Is Created |
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| 1834 | Senate Censures President Jackson over Second U.S. Bank |
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| 1836 | Roger B. Taney Is Sworn in as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1838 | The Charlotte Mint in North Carolina Produces Its First Gold Half-eagle Coins |
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| 1841 | Dorothea Dix Begins Her Crusade on Behalf of the Mentally Ill |
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| 1842 | The Vienna Philharmonic Plays Its First Concert |
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| 1845 | Mexico Denounces U.S. Inviting Republic of Texas to Join the United States |
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| 1854 | Britain & France Declare War on Russia - Beginning the Crimean War |
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| 1861 | Lincoln Advises Cabinet of Recommendation to Abandon Ft. Sumter, SC and Ft. Pickens, FL |
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| 1862 | Union Victory at New Mexico's Glorieta Pass Ends Confederate Western Advance |
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| 1863 | 13th West Virginia Infantry Repels a Confederate Attack at Hurricane Bridge |
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| 1864 | An Intruder Awakens Lincoln in His Bedroom and Begins Speech Claiming He Was Elected President in 1856 |
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| Renegade Civil War Guerrilla Leader William Quantrill Is Arrested in Bonham, Texas |
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| Portland, Oregon's First Water Hydrant Is Installed on the Corner of Washington and First Streets |
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| 1865 | President Lincoln Discusses Strategy with General Grant, General Sherman and Admiral Porter |
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| 1871 | Lincoln County, Arkansas is Created |
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| 1881 | In New Mexico, Billy the Kid Leaves Santa Fe for La Mesilla Where He Will Be Tried and Convicted for Killing Sheriff William Brady in 1878 |
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| 1882 | Elijah McCoy Receives U.S. Patent #255,443 for a Lubricator to be Used by Railroads |
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| 1889 | Animals from a Bankrupt Circus Are Bought and Donated for Atlanta, Georgia's First Zoo |
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| 1891 | Imperial Decree Orders the Expulsion of All Jewish Artisans From the City and Government of Moscow |
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| First World Weightlifting Championship Held |
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| 1898 | Supreme Court Rules Child Born in U.S. to Chinese Immigrants Is a U.S. Citizen and May Not Be Deported |
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| The U.S. Department of Agriculture Establishes an Experimental Station at Kodiak, Alaska |
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| 1899 | William Fleming Patents an Electric Player Piano |
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| 1900 | Daimler Mail Phaeton Is First Car of British Royal Family |
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| 1910 | Henri Fabre Pilots the First Seaplane in Martigues, France (altitude 6.5 ft, distance .25 mi) |
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| 1912 | The Oxford and the Cambridge Boats Both Sink in the Annual Varsity Boat Race |
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| 1917 | Turkish Governor Orders All Jews to Leave Jaffa and Tel Aviv |
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| 1919 | A State Farm for Women Is Created in Jacksonville, Arkansas |
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| 1920 | Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Divorce Spouses So They Can Marry |
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| 1923 | The Delaware General Assembly Fails to Abolish the Whipping Post |
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| 1924 | A 25" Blizzard Ends a Drought in Southern Minnesota |
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| 1927 | Majestic Theater Opens at 245 W 44th St New York City |
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| 1930 | Constantinople & Angora Change Names to Istanbul & Ankara |
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| 1935 | Georgia Adopts a Pledge of Allegiance to the State Flag |
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| 1939 | Franco's Nationalist Forces Occupy Madrid, Ending the Spanish Civil War |
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| 1941 | British Destroy the Italian Navy: 5 Ships & 2,303 Sailors Lost |
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| 1942 | British Royal Air Force Incinerates over 80% of Timberbuilt Lübeck, Germany |
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| British Naval Forces Raid the Nazi-occupied French Port of St. Nazaire |
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| William Faulkner Publishes "Two Soldiers" in the Saturday Evening Post |
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| 1945 | U.S. 12th Armored Division Crosses the Rhine on Two Pontoon Bridges Erected Near Worms |
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| 1947 | Last Radio Episode of "Buck Rogers the 25th Century " Airs |
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| 1954 | Wisconsin Voters Begin an Unsuccessful Campaign to Recall U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy |
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| 1955 | John M. Harlan Is Sworn in as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| Up to 1" of Snow Is Reported in the Florida Panhandle |
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| 1959 | China Dissolves Tibet's Government & Installs Panchen Lama As Chairman |
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| 1960 | ANC Calls for Nationwide Stay-at-Home Day to Protest South Africa's Use of Passbooks |
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| 1961 | Georgia's Legislature Approves Monuments at Gettysburg and Antietam to Honor Fallen Georgians |
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| 1963 | NASA Completes Its Un-crewed Test Flights of the Apollo Saturn Rocket |
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| Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds Opens in U.S. Theaters |
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| 1964 | 5.1 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered Near Merriman, Nebraska |
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| In Crescent City, California, a Tsunami Created by an Alaskan Earthquake Kills 10 People, Destroying 289 Homes and Businesses |
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| 1965 | Martin Luther King Leads Alabama Marchers from Selma to the Steps of the Capital in Montgomery |
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| 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered Near the West Coast of Chile Kills 400 |
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| 1967 | At 23y 3m, Dennis J. Patrick O'Grady Is the Youngest Person Ever Elected to the Florida State Senate |
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| 1969 | 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 11 in Turkey, Destroys 7,000 Homes |
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| Seattle First National Bank Building Is Dedicated |
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| 1970 | 7.3 Earthquake Destroys 254 Villages in Turkey: 1,086 Die |
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| 1972 | Georgia Governor, Jimmy Carter, Signs "Sunshine Law" Requiring Open Public Meetings |
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| USSR Conducts 20 kT Underground Nuclear Test in Kazakhstan |
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| 1974 | Romanian Communists Name Nicolae Ceausescu President |
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| 1975 | 6.1 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered in Eastern Idaho |
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| 1979 | Britain's Callaghan Government Loses Parliamentary Vote of Confidence |
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| Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Suffers Partial Meltdown |
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| 1981 | France Conducts 20kT Underground Nuclear Test at Fangataufa Atoll |
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| 1982 | 6.1 Magnitude Earthquake Near the Coast of Peru Kills 3 |
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| 1983 | U.S. Launches NOAA Search & Rescue Satellite |
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| 1985 | Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" Premieres in New York, NY |
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| 1986 | NASA's ICE/ISEE-3 Spacecraft Arrives at the Comet Halley |
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| 1988 | Georgia Ratifies the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution |
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| 1993 | Type II Supernova Detected in M81 (NGC 3031) |
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| 1994 | In South Africa, ANC Guards Massacre 19 Members of the Inkatha Freedom Party |
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| 1996 | 6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 27 in Ecuador, Leaves Thousands Homeless |
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| 1999 | 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 100 in Xizang-India Border Region, Thousands Homeless |
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| The Baltimore Orioles Defeat the Cuban National Team 3-2 in 11 Innings |
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| 2002 | The Arab League Offers Normal Relations If Israel Withdraws and Accepts a Palestinian State |
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| 2007 | 65 Tornadoes Kill Four People and Dozens of Livestock in the Plains States |
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