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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
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Taiwan: Ching Ming Festival (Tomb Sweeping Day)
(Observed on April 5 to commemorate the passing of former President Chiang Kai-shek: 04/05/1975) |
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South Korea: Shik Mok Il (Arbor Day)
(Observed annually on April 5) |
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1917 | Robert Bloch (Chicago-born Children's Author) |
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1933 | Yasuo Segawa (Japanese Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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1934 | Richard Peck (Illinois-born Children's Author Awarded the 2001 Newbery Medal for A "Year Down Yonder") |
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1935 | HM Hoover (Ohio-born Children's Author) |
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1944 | Lurlene McDaniel (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author) |
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1837 | Charles Algernon Swinburne (English Poet) |
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1908 | Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (New York-born Author) |
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1904 | Richard Eberhart (Minnesota-born Author, Poet Awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) |
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1910 | Chaim Grade (Russian-born Yiddish Poet, Short-Story Writer, Novelist) |
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1920 | Arthur Hailey (English Author) |
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1926 | Joseph Rykwert (Polish Author) |
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1929 | Hugo Claus (Belgian Author) |
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1732 | Jean-Honore Fragonard (French Rococo Painter) |
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1908 | Herbert von Karajan (Austrian Conductor) ) |
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1917 | Richard Yardumian (Pennsylvania-born Composer) |
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1949 | Judith Resnik (Ohio-born Astronaut) |
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1950 | Franklin R. Chang-Díaz (Costa Rican-born Astronaut) |
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1827 | Joseph Lister (English Physician, Scientist) |
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1649 | Elihu Yale (Massachusetts-born Philanthropist, Namesake of Yale University ) |
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1865 | Lincoln Filene (Massachusetts-born Chairman of Federated Department Stores) |
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1588 | Thomas Hobbes (English Philosopher) |
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1801 | Vincenzo Gioberti (Italian Philosopher, Politician, Cleric) |
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1816 | Samuel F. Miller (Kentucky-born Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
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1839 | Robert Smalls (South Carolina Slave, African-American Naval Captain, State Legislator, U.S. Congressman) |
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1856 | Robert Raikes (English Philanthropist and Founder of the Sunday School Concept) |
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Booker T. Washington (Virginia-born African-American Educator and Rights Activist) |
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1901 | Chester Bowles (Massachusetts-born Advertising Executive, American Diplomat) |
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1908 | Jagjivan Ram (Indian Politician, Rights Activist, Spokesman for the Untouchables) |
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1923 | Nguyen Van Thieu (President of South Vietnam) |
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1937 | Colin Powell (New York-born African-American Statesman, Military Leader) |
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1900 | Melvyn Douglas (Georgia-born Actor) |
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1900 | Spencer Tracy (Wisconsin-born Actor) |
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1908 | Bette Davis (Massachusetts-born Actor) |
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1914 | George Reeves (Iowa-born Actor, The Original Superman on Television) |
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1916 | Gregory Peck (California-born Actor) |
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1922 | Gale Storm (Texas-born Actor) |
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1926 | Roger Corman (California-born Film Director, Producer) |
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1934 | Frank Gorshin (Pennsylvania-born Actor) |
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1950 | Agnetha Fältskog (Swedish Singer: ABBA) |
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1871 | Glenn "Pop" Warner (New York-born Coach, Member of the College Football Hall-of-Fame) |
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1915 | John McLendon (Kansas-born African-American Coach, Member of the Basketball Hall-of-Fame) |
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1964 | Douglas MacArthur (Arkansas-born Military Leader) |
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1967 | Herman Muller (New York City-born 1946 Nobel Laureate for Medicine or Physiology) |
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1975 | Chiang Kai-Shek (Chinese Political Leader) |
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1976 | Howard Hughes (Texas-born Aviator, Business Leader) |
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1981 | Mark Foster Ethridge (Mississippi-born Journalist, Publisher) |
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1982 | Abe Fortas (Tennessee-born Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
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1992 | Sam Walton (Oklahoma Business Leader: Founder of Wal-Mart) |
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1994 | Kurt Cobain (Washington-born Rock Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist: Suicide) |
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1997 | Allen Ginsberg (New Jersey-born Poet) |
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2005 | Saul Bellow (Canadian Author) |
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1614 | Pocahontas Marries English Colonist John Rolfe in Virginia |
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1621 | The Mayflower Sets Sail for Return Trip to England |
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1768 | 20 Merchants Found America's First Chamber of Commerce Is Formed in New York City |
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1774 | Benjamin Franklin Publishes "An Open Letter to Lord North" |
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1778 | Shawnee Indians Take Daniel Boone to Detroit as a British Prisoner |
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1792 | George Washington Issues First Presidential Veto |
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1805 |
![]() Clark: we have our 2 perogues & Six Canoes loaded with our Stores & provisions, principally provisions. the wind verry high from the N W. a number of Mandans visit us to day Ordway: clear and pleasant. we Sorted all our loading and divided a proportion of each Sort for each perogue, and loaded all the perogues and got ready for a Start, on our Journey. the wind high from the N. W.— .
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1806 |
![]() Lewis: This morning was so cloudy that I could not obtain any lunar observations with Aquila as I wished. Joseph Fields and Drewyer departed this morning agreeably to their orders of last evening. at 9 A. M. we Sent Sergt. Ordway and a party to assist Sergt. Pryor in bringing in the meat of four Elk which he had dryed. at 1 P. M the party returned with the meat. it had been so illy dryed that we feared it would not keep. we therefore directed it to be cut thinner and redryed over a fire this evening, as we purpose setting out early in the morning. the deerskins which we have had cased for the purpose of containing our dryed meat are not themselves sufficiently dryed for that purpose, we directed them to be dryed by the fire also. the weather has been so damp that there was no possibility of pounding the meat as I wished.— we were visited today by several parties of the natives as usual; they behaved themselves in a very orderly manner.
Observed Magnetic Azimuth and altitude of the with Circumferenter and Sextant. immediately after this observation Saw the Log cock [pileated woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus], the hummingbird, gees ducks &c today. the tick has made it's appearance it is the same with those of the Atlantic States. the Musquetoes have also appeared but are not yet troublesome.— this morning at 10 OClock Sergt. Gass returned with Collins and Windsor they had not succeeded in killing the female bear tho' they brought the three cubs with them. the Indians who visited us today fancyed these petts and gave us wappetoe in exchange for them. Drewyer informed me that he never knew a female bear return to her young when they had been allarmed by a person and once compelled to leave them. The dogwood grows abundantly on the uplands in this neighbourhood. it differs from that of the United States in the appearance of it's bark which is much smoother, it also arrives here to much greater size than I ever observed it elsewhere sometimes the stem is nearly 2 feet in diameter. we measured a fallen tree of fir No. 1 which was 318 feet including the stump which was about 6 feet high. this tree was only about 3 ½ feet in diameter. we saw the martin, small gees, the small speckled woodpecker with a white back, the Blue crested Corvus, ravens, crows, eagles Vultures and hawks. the mellow bug and long leged spider have appeared, as have also the butterfly blowing fly and many other insects. I observe not any among them which appear to differ from those of our country or which deserve particular notice.—
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Sergt. Gass & 2 other of the hunters returnd. with 3 Small black cubs which was sold to the Savages
I and 5 more men went over to the S. Side and climbed a high River hill on which is excelent rich land. went to the Camp of our hunters and brought in the meat. three more hunters Sent on a head with their Small canoe a hunting
great numbers of Savages visited the Camp continually Since we have lay in at this Camp, who were passing down
the River hills are high above Quick Sand River Some of the clifts is 200 feet high. on the tops of those hills the land
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1805 | Count Nikolai Rezanov Arrives at the San Francisco Presidio Aboard the Russian Brig Juno Hoping to Establish Trade Relations with the Spanish |
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1824 | The United States and Russia Sign a Convention Opening the North Pacific to Fishing and Trade |
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1830 | In Boston. William J. Snelling Publishes Tales of the Northwest, the First Work of Fiction Set in Minnesota |
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1849 | A Wagon Train Leaves Fort Smith, Arkansas for the California Gold Fields |
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1853 | Iowa School for the Blind Opens in Iowa City |
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1859 | Darwin Completes First Three Chapters of Origin of Species |
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1860 | Wisconsin Congressman and Abolitionist, John F. Potter, Is Challenged to a Duel by Virginia Representative Roger Pryor |
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1861 | The 1st Florida Infantry Regiment (500 Men) Is Mustered into Confederate Service in Chattahoochee |
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7-day Mail Service Is Initiated Between Sacramento, California and Portland, Oregon |
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1862 | McClellan's Union Troops Place Yorktown, Virginia under Siege |
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1863 | President Lincoln Visits with General Hooker at Falmouth, Virginia |
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1864 | President Lincoln Responds to Petition from Mrs. Horace Mann That All Slave Children Be Freed |
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President and Mrs. Lincoln Attend a Performance of Flotow's Opera "Martha" at Grover's Theatre |
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1865 | President Lincoln Returns to City Point, Virginia from Richmond |
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1873 | Garland County, Arkansas Is Founded |
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1874 | Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, Jr. Is First Performed in Vienna |
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1881 | Patent Granted for a Centrifugal Separator --the Creamer |
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1885 | Fire Destroys the First Hospital in Forth Worth, Texas |
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1887 | Annie Sullivan Teaches Helen Keller the Meaning of W-A-T-E-R |
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1892 | English Literary Journal Black and White Publishes "The Real Thing," a Short Story by Henry James |
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1894 | Connellsville, Pennsylvania Miners Strike Turns Violent, Killing 11 |
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Florida's Melbourne Times Is First Published |
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1895 | Chi Omega Sorority Is Founded at the University of Arkansas |
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1900 | Attempted Assassination of Prince of Wales Fails in Belgium |
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1909 | The Neurological Institute of New York Opens with Alexander H. Candlish, Director |
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1916 | Congress Hears Testimony in Favor of Establishing a National Park Service |
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1917 | Women Gain Voting Rights in British Columbia, Canada |
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The First Airplanes Land at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas |
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1918 | Germans Abandon Their Positions Ending the Battle of Somme |
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1925 | William Faulkner Publishes "Cheest," in the New Orleans Times-Picayune |
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Ellen Glasgow's "Van Doren on Cabell" Appears in the New York Herald Tribune |
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1926 | H.L. Mencken Is Arrested for Selling a Magazine That Has Been Banned in Boston |
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1929 | A Tornado Kills Three People in Minnesota |
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1931 | Fox Studios Drops John Wayne As Unpromising Talent |
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1933 | Public Is Required to Return All Gold Coins to the Government |
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1936 | Tornado Levels Tupelo, Mississippi: 216 Die |
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1937 | 200 Protestors Occupy the Minnesota State Capitol Demonstrating for a Depression Relief Bill |
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1943 | Aircraft Carrier Casablanca Is Launched from the Kaiser Shipyard in Vancouver, Washington |
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1945 | Yugoslavia's Tito Signs "Friendship" Treaty with the Soviet Union |
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1951 | Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Are Sentenced to Die for Espionage |
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1955 | Winston Churchill Resigns as Prime Minister of Britain |
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Richard J. Daley Becomes Mayor of Chicago |
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1968 | Atlanta, Georgia Prepares for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Funeral |
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1969 | 100,000 Anti-War Demonstrators March in New York City |
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1970 | Guerrillas of the Rebel Armed Forces Murder West Germany's Ambassador to Guatemala |
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1971 | Seattle City Council Gives Preliminary Approval for a New City Aquarium |
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1973 | U.S. Launches Pioneer 11 to Jupiter, Saturn and Beyond |
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1976 | James Callaghan Wins the Labour Leadership to Become Britain's New Prime Minister |
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1984 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Becomes the Highest-scoring Player in NBA History: 31,421 Career Points |
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1985 | 8,000 Radio Stations Simultaneously Play "We Are the World" |
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1986 | 5.3 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 16 and Destroys 2,000 Houses in the Cuzco, Peru Area |
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Bomb Kills Two Americans in West Berlin Discotheque |
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1987 | Fox Broadcasting Makes Its Prime-Time TV Debut |
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1988 | Islamic Terrorists Hijack a Kuwaiti Jumbo Jet, Beginning a 16-day International Hostage Crisis |
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Tracy Chapman Releases "Fast Car" |
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1989 | Polish Round Table Legalizes Solidarity, Schedules Multi-party Elections |
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1991 | U.S. Begins Air Drops to Kurdish Refugees in Northern Iraq |
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Former Texas Senator, John Tower, and 22 Others Die in Georgia Commuter Plane Crash |
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NASA Launches Space Shuttle Atlantis and Deploys 17-ton Compton Gamma Ray Observatory |
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1992 | Abortion Rights Advocates March on Washington, D.C. |
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1993 | Newly Formed Florida Marlins Baseball Team Plays Its First Game, Defeating the Dodgers 6-3 |
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1994 | Penguin Publishing Pays $2.5M for Rights to Bill Gates' Road Ahead |
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1999 | Libya Surrenders Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Suspects to U.N. Representatives |
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2000 | Yoshiro Mori Is Elected President of Japan's Ruling Liberal Democratic Party |
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2010 | 29 Die in West Virginia Coal Mine Explosion |
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