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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 children's author born on this date:
HIS SAJO RANEN |
Use all of these letters to spell the name of an actress born on this date:
MAKEN CONCYN |
(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 work by Maya Angelou:
LESS IT LIRI |
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 Dorothea Dix Born on This Date 1802 [Texas Council for the Humanities]
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 Linus Yale Born on This Date 1821 [Yale-Europe]
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 Muddy Waters Born on This Date 1915 [BlueFlameCafe.com]
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 Maya Angelou Born on This Date 1928 [Official Website]
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 Phoebe Gilman Born on This Date 1946 [Gale Group]
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Angola: Peace and National Reconciliation Day
(Commemorates the signing of the cease-fire agreement between the Angolan army and the military wing of UNITA: 04/04/2002) |
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Senegal: Independence Day
(Commemorates independence from France gained from a 04/04/1960 transfer of power agreement) |
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Taiwan: Children's Day
(Observed annually on this date) |
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| 1906 | Glen Rounds (South Dakota Children's Author, Illustrator of the American West) |
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| 1932 | Johanna Reiss (Dutch Children's Author of the Holocaust) |
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| 1942 | Elizabeth Levy (New York-born Children's Author) |
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| 1946 | Phoebe Gilman (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1953 | Joan Leslie Woodruff (New Mexico-born Native-American Children's Author) |
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| 1828 | Margaret Oliphant (English Novelist) |
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| 1833 | Archibald Campbell (West Virginia Journalist) |
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| 1858 | Rémy de Gourmont (French Essayist, Novelist, Poet, Playwright) |
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| 1873 | Marvel Katherine Jackson Cooke (Minnesota-born African-American Journalist and Social Activist) |
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| 1896 | Robert Sherwood (New York-born Playwright) |
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| 1914 | Marguerite Duras (French Novelist, Screenwriter, Playwright and Director) |
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| 1928 | Maya Angelou (Missouri-born African-American Poet, Authors, Actress) |
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| 1938 | Vertamae Grosvenor (South Carolina-born African-American Cook, Author) |
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| 1875 | Pierre Monteux (French Classical Conductor) |
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| 1648 | Grinling Gibbons (Dutch-English Wood Carver, St. Paul's Cathedral) |
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| 1780 | Edward Hicks (Pennsylvania-born Primitive Painter) |
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| 1843 | William Jackson (New York-born Western Photographer) |
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| 1874 | Isaac Hathaway (Kentucky-born African-American Sculptor) |
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| 1821 | Linus Yale (New York-born Inventor) |
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| 1823 | Carl Wilhelm (William) Siemens (German-English Electrical Engineer and Inventor ) |
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| 1884 | Yamamoto Isoroku (Mastermind of Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor) |
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| 1748 | William White (Pennsylvania-born First Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church) |
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| 1792 | Thaddeus Stevens (Vermont-born Anti-Slavery Congressman from Pennsylvania) |
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| 1802 | Dorothea Dix (Maine-born Advocate for the Mentally Ill) |
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| 1810 | James Freeman Clarke (New Hampshire-born Theologian) |
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| 1834 | Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas (Georgia-born Women's Rights Activist) |
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| 1844 | John Riley Tanner (Indiana-born Governor of Illinois: 1897-1901) |
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| 1904 | Walter Kohler, Jr. (Governor of Wisconsin: 1951-1957) |
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| 1921 | John Reynolds (Governor of Wisconsin) |
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| 1895 | Arthur Murray (New York City-born Dance Instructor, Entrepreneur) |
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| 1906 | John Cameron Swayze (Kansas-born Broadcast Journalist) |
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| 1908 | Antony Tudor (English-American Dancer, Choreographer) |
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| 1913 | Francis Langford (Florida-born Popular Singer) |
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| 1915 | Muddy Waters (Mississippi-born African-American Blues Singer, Musician) |
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| 1932 | Anthony Perkins (New York-born Actor) |
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| Andrei Tarkovsky (Russian Film & Theater Director, Screenwriter) |
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| 1944 | Craig T. Nelson (Washington-born Actor) |
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| 1950 | Christine Lahti (Michigan-born Actress) |
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| 1963 | David Gavurin (English Guitarist) |
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| 1965 | Robert Downey, Jr. (New York City-born Actor) |
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| Nancy McKeon (New York-born Actress) |
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| 1888 | Tris Speaker (Texas-born Member of the Professional Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1938 | A. Bartlett Giamatti (Massachusetts-born Commissioner of Major League Baseball) |
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| 1939 | Joanne Carner (Washington-born Member of the Golf Hall of Fame) |
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| 397 | St. Ambrose (Italian-born Catholic Saint) |
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| 1617 | John Napier (Scottish Inventor of Logarithms) |
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| 1774 | Oliver Goldsmith (English Author, Poet) |
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| 1841 | William Henry Harrison (Virginia-born 9th President of the United States) |
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| 1888 | Abram Elfelt (Minnesota's First Jewish Settler) |
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| 1901 | George Thomas "Tige" Anderson (Georgia-born Confederate General) |
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| 1914 | Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser (German-born Pioneer of the American Timber Industry; Founder of Weyerhaeuser Company) |
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| 1923 | John Venn (English Mathematician: Namesake of Venn Diagrams) |
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| 1929 | Karl Freidrich Benz (German Automobile Engineer: Mercedes Benz) |
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| 1931 | Andre Michelin (French Tire Manufacturer) |
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| 1939 | Ghazi I (King of Iraq - Swiss Car Crash) |
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| 1968 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Georgia-born African-American Civil Rights Leader: Assassination) |
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| 1979 | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Ousted Pakistan Prime Minister, Hanged by Military) |
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| 1983 | Gloria Swanson (Chicago-born Actress) |
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| 1581 | Frances Drake Is Knighted on Board the Golden Hinde by Queen Elizabeth I |
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| 1687 | James II Issues a "Declaration of Indulgence" Allowing Full Liberty of Worship in England |
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| 1689 | Spanish Explorer, Alonso De León, Names the Texas' Río de las Nueces for the Pecan Trees Along Its Banks |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a blustering windey Day the Clerks of the N W. Co. leave us we are arrangeing all things to Set out &c.
Ordway:
clear and pleasant. the Indian Goods and bags of corn all put out to Gass: A fine clear day. We packed the boxes full of skins, buffaloe robes, and horns of the Mountain ram, of a great size for the president; and began to load the boat. |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: This morning early we sent Sergt. Ordway in Surch of Sergt. Gass and party below the entrance of the Quicksand river from whom we have yet had no report. in the course of a few hours both parties returned.
Sergt. Gass and party brought the flesh of a bear and some venison. they informed us that they had killed an Elk Collins who had killed the bear, found the bed of another in which there were three young ones; and requested to be permitted to return in order to waylay the bed and kill the female bear; we permitted him to do so; Sergt. Gass and Windsor returned with him. Several parties of the natives visit us today as usual both from above and below; those who came from above were moving with their families, and those from below appeared to be empeled mearly by curiossity to see us. About noon we dispatched Gibson Shannon Howard and Wiser in one of the light canoes, with orders to proceed up the Columbia to a large bottom on the South side about six miles above us and to hunt untill our arrival. late in the evening Joseph Fields and Drewyer returned. they had killed two deer yesterday, and informed us that the meat would be dryed by midday tomorrow. we directed Drewyer and the two Feildses to ascend the river tomorrow to join Gibson and party, and hunt untill our arrival. this evening being fair I observed time and distance of 's Eastern Limb from regulus with Sextant. West.
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I and 2 men went over the River to see what success the hunters had met the hunters & returned with 5 of them they had killd. one Elk Six Deer and a handsome black bear & 2 Geese the hunters
Soon went out again 4 was Sent on with a Small Canoe a head 5 or 6 miles to a bottom on S. Side to hunt untill we come up. the after part of the day pleasant. one of the men killd. 2 deer. in the evening 2 of our hunters came in had killd. 2 deer and caught a beaver
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| 1812 | President James Madison Places a Ninety-Day Embargo on Trade with England |
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| 1818 | Congress Declares the U.S. Flag to Be 13 Red and White Stripes and 20 Stars |
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| 1825 | John R. Williams Is Elected Detroit's First Mayor |
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| 1836 | Beaver, the First Pacific Ocean Steamship, Arrives at Oregon's Fort George after a 163-Day Around the Horn from England |
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| 1841 | President William Henry Harrison Dies in After Only One Month in Office |
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| 1850 | The City of Los Angeles, California Is Incorporated |
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| 1853 | Thomas (Tad), Fourth Child of Abraham and Mary Lincoln, Is Born in Springfield, Illinois |
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| 1854 | William H. Herndon, Law Partner of Abraham Lincoln, Is Elected Mayor of Springfield, Illinois |
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| 1861 | President Lincoln Telegraphs the Commander at Fort Sumter to Hold Out if Possible Until Relieved |
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| 1862 | Confederate Sloop LaFayette Is Captured in Florida by the U.S.S. Pursuit |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln Sends Congratulations to Isabel II, Queen of Spain, on the Birth of Daughter |
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| President Lincoln Passes to the Senate a Treaty with the Nez Percé Indians of the Washington Territory |
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| President Lincoln Expresses His Thoughts on Slavery in a Letter to Albert Hodges of Kentucky |
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| 1865 | President Abraham Lincoln Arrives in Richmond, Virginia with His Son Tad to Tour the Union-Occupied Confederate Capital |
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| 1867 | African American, Jonathan C. Gibbs, Is Elected to the Executive Board of Florida's Union Republican Party |
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| 1873 | Pennsylvania Supreme Court Denies Suffragist Carrie Burnham's Right to Vote |
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| 1879 | Japan Incorporates the Ryukyu Islands as Okinawa Prefecture |
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| The First Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Locomotive Steams into Las Vegas, New Mexico |
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| 1881 | Jewish Morris A. Dzialinski, Is Elected Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida |
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| 1884 | Seattle's Ladies Relief Society Is Formed to Care for the City's Needy Women and Children |
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| 1887 | Argonia, Kansas Elects Susanna Medora Salter the First Female U.S. Mayor |
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| 1891 | Seattle Pacific University Opens as Seattle Seminary |
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| 1893 | The Minnesota State Flag Is Adopted |
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| 1902 | English Financier Cecil Rhodes Wills $10M for Scholarships for Foreign Students at Oxford University |
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| 1905 | 8.6 Magnitude Earthquake Killing 19,000+ in the Kangra District Is Deadliest in India's Recorded History |
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| 1911 | Fire Destroys a Block of Businesses in Iditarod, Alaska |
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| 1914 | The Times-Democrat and New Orleans Picayune Merge to Form New Orleans Times Picayune |
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| 1918 | In Muncie, Indiana, the Ball Brothers Gift Buildings and Grounds for a New State Teachers College (Ball State University) |
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| 1919 | In Tampa, Florida, Babe Ruth Hits the Longest Recorded Home Run of His Career (587') |
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| 1923 | Wooden Sailing Vessel Fresno Burns and Is Scuttled in Lake Washington |
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| 1925 | The Columbia Theater Opens in Longview, Washington |
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| 1932 | Vitamin C Is First Isolated by C.C. King, University of Pittsburgh |
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| 1933 | U.S. Dirigible Akron Crashes in a Violent Storm Off New Jersey Coast: 73 Die |
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| 1939 | Iraq's King Ghazi I Dies in a Swiss Car Crash |
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| Three-year-old Faisal II Becomes King of Iraq |
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| Glenn Miller Orchestra Records "Moonlight Serenade" |
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| 1945 | Soviets Drive the Last German Troops Out of Hungary |
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| U.S. Forces Liberate the Nazi Death Camp Ohrdruf in Germany |
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| 1949 | Twelve Nations Sign NATO Mutual Defense Pact |
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| 1950 | New York Drama Critics Circle Names Carson McCuller's Member of the Wedding as Best Play |
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| 1954 | Toscanini Conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra for Last Time with an All-Wagner Program |
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| 1960 | Senegal Signs Transfer of Power Agreement with France |
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| Elvis Presley Records "Are You Lonesome Tonight" in Nashville |
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| 1963 | Movie Musical Bye Bye Birdie Opens at Radio City Music Hall |
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| The Beatles Fill the Top Five Slots on America's Top 40 |
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| 1964 | Stephen Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle Opens at the Majestic Theatre, New York |
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| 1967 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaks Out Against the Vietnam War |
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| 1968 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Is Assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee |
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| NASA Launches Unmanned Apollo 6 Rocket |
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| 1969 | Dr. Denton Cooley Implants First Temporary Artificial Heart |
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| CBS Refuses to Air the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour |
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| 1971 | Gordie Howe Plays His Last Game for the Detroit Red Wings |
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| Stephen Sondheim's Follies Opens at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York |
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| 1974 | Hank Aaron Hits Home Run #714 to Tie Babe Ruth |
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| Two-Day Outbreak of 148 Tornadoes Across 13 States and Canada Kill 148, Injure 6,142, Causing $600 Million in Property Damage |
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| Tornadoes Kill 16 and Injure 109 in Northwest Georgia |
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| Tornadoes Kill 86 and Injure 949 in Alabama |
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| 1975 | U.S. Plane Carrying 155 Vietnamese Orphans to America Crashes on Take Off from Saigon |
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| 1978 | Florida State Government Formally Occupies Its New Capitol Building in Tallahassee |
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| 1979 | Ousted Pakistan Prime Minister Bhutto Is Hanged by Military |
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| 1981 | San Antonio's Henry Cisneros Is First Mexican-American Elected Mayor of a Major U.S. City |
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| 1983 | Challenger First Launched on the 6th Space Shuttle Mission |
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| 1988 | Georgia Designates the Tiger Swallowtail as the State's Official Butterfly |
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| 1991 | Senator John Heinz and Six Others Die In a Plane Collision with a Helicopter over Merion, Pennsylvania |
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| 1997 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-39A) with Microgravity Lab |
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| 2000 | Severe Weather Creates Chaos in Great Britain |
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| 2010 | 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 2 in Mexico, Shakes Buildings in Southwest U.S. on Easter Sunday |
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