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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 title of a book written by Jerdine Nolen (according to Houghton-Mifflin):
AGE JIBB |
Use all of these letters to spell the name of an institution from which Lowell Thomas acquired a degree (according to the Horatio Alger Association):
VARIATIONAL ESPY VIRUS |
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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 song by Merle Haggard (according to Writer's Almanac):
DRAMA TIME |
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Thailand: Chakri Memorial Day
(Commemorates the founding of the Chakri Dynasty and King Rama I, First King of the Dynasty: 04/06/1782) |
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United States: Tartan Day
(Commemorates Declaration of Arbroath, the Scottish Declaration of Independence (signed 04/06/1320) |
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| 1918 | Ida Chittum (Ohio-born Children's Author) |
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| 1935 | Douglas Hill (Canadian Children's Author) |
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| 1942 | Alice Bach (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1947 | Fulvio Testa (Italian Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1953 | Jerdine Nolen (Mississippi-born African-American Children's Author) |
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| 1956 | Graeme Base (English Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1671 | Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (French Playwright, Poet) |
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| 1823 | Joseph Medill (Canadian-American Editor, Publisher of the Chicago Tribune) |
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| 1888 | Dan Andersson (Swedish Poet) |
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| 1892 | Lowell Thomas (Ohio-born Broadcast Journalist) |
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| 1895 | Dudley Nichols (Ohio-born Screenwriter) |
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| 1906 | John Betjeman (British Poet Laureate: 1972 - 1984) |
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| 1483 | Raphael (Italian Painter) |
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| 1860 | Rene Lalique (French Jeweler and Leaders of the Art Nouveau Movement) |
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| 1869 | Louis Raemaekers (Dutch Anti-Nazi Cartoonist) |
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| 1921 | Andrew Imbrie (New York City-born Conductor) |
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| 1929 | André Previn (German-American Conductor) |
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| 1810 | Philip Henry Gosse (English Naturalist, Started the World's First Aquarium) |
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| 1870 | Clarence E. McClung (California-born Geneticist) |
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| 1903 | Harold Edgerton (Nebraska-born Pioneer in Stroboscopic Photography) |
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| 1911 | Feodor Lynen (German Nobel Laureate for Medicine and Physiology) |
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| 1920 | Edmond H. Fischer (American Nobel Laureate for Medicine or Physiology) |
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| 1928 | James Watson (Chicago-born Nobel Laureate for Medicine or Physiology: Discovered the Structure of DNA) |
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| 1949 | Horst Ludwig Störmer (German 1998 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1890 | Anthony Fokker (Dutch Aviation Pioneer) |
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| 1892 | Donald Douglas (New York City-born Aviation Pioneer) |
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| 1135 | Moses Maimonides (Spanish-born Jewish Rabbi, Philosopher, Author) |
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| 1773 | James Mill (Scottish Philosopher, Historian, Economist) |
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| 1830 | James Augustine Healy (Georgia-born First African-American Catholic Bishop) |
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| 1908 | Anna O. Blum (Wisconsin-born Attorney; President of the National Women's Bar Association) |
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| 1866 | Butch Cassidy (Utah-born Outlaw) |
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| 1884 | Walter Huston (Canadian-born American Filmmaker) |
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| 1922 | Dorothy Donegan (Chicago-born African-American Jazz Pianist Born in Chicago) |
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| 1927 | Jerry Mulligan (New York City-born Jazz Musician) |
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| 1937 | Merle Haggard (California-born Country & Western Performer) |
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| Billy Dee Williams (New York City-born African-American Actor) |
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| 1942 | Barry Levinson (Maryland-born Film Director, Producer) |
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| 1952 | Marilu Henner (Chicago-born Actor) |
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| 1903 | Mickey Cochrane (Massachusetts-born Hall of Fame Baseball Player) |
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| 1908 | Ernie Lombardi (California-born Hall of Fame Baseball Player) |
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| 1953 | Janet Lynn (Chicago-born Hall of Fame Figure Skater) |
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| 1199 | Richard I, King of England |
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| 1483 | Raphael (Italian Artist) |
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| 1528 | Albrecht Dürer (German Artist, Scientist, Mathematician) |
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| 1896 | John Henry Selman (Arkansas-born Outlaw, Lawman) |
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| 1942 | Bradley Allen Fiske (New York-born Admiral and Innovator in the U.S. Navy) |
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| 1951 | Robert Broom (Scottish Archaeologist) |
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| 1961 | Jules Bordet (Belgian Pioneer in Immunology: 1919 Nobel Laureate for Medicine or Physiology) |
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| 1971 | Igor Stravinsky (Russian Classical Composer) |
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| 1992 | Isaac Asimov (Russian-born American Science-Fiction Author) |
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| 1998 | Edwin Arlington Robinson (Maine-born Poet) |
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| Tammy Wynette (Mississippi-born Country Singer, Songwriter) |
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| 2000 | Dennis Cambell (English Admiral and Military Innovator) |
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| 2005 | Prince Rainier of Monaco |
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| 2010 | Wilma Mankiller (Oklahoma-born First Female Chief of Cherokee Nation) |
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| 647 B.C. | The Greeks Chronicle the Earliest Recorded Total Solar Eclipse |
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| 1249 | King Louis IX of France Is Taken Prisoner by Muslims During the Crusades |
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| 1320 | The Declaration of Arbroath, Scotland's Declaration of Independence, Is Signed |
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| 1327 | Italian Renaissance Poet, Petarch, Sees His Idealized Laura for the First Time |
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| 1652 | Jan van Riebeeck Lands at the Cape of Good Hope to Settle South Africa for the Dutch East India Company |
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| 1712 | New York Slave Rebellion Results in the Death of 9 Whites and the Execution of 27 Slaves |
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| 1748 | Excavations Begin at Pompeii, a Roman City Destroyed by Eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 A.D |
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| 1764 | Four Families of Acadian Immigrants Arrive in Louisiana from New York |
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| 1776 | Continental Congress Opens All American Ports to Trade with Any Country Not under British Rule |
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| 1782 | Thailand's Chakri Dynasty Is Founded by Phra Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) |
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| 1789 | U.S. Senate Achieves Its First Quorum at Federal Hall in New York City |
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| 1801 | The Methodist Episcopal Church Recognizes the New African Methodist Episcopal Church |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a fine day visited by a number of mandans, we are informed of the arrival of the whole of the ricarra nation on the other Side of the river near their old village. we Sent an interpreter to See with orders to return imediately and let us know if their Chiefs ment to go down to See their great father. Ordway: clear and pleasant. we took all our Baggage on board the perogues in order to Set off. Some of the Mandans Indians informed us that the Rick a Ree nation was all comming up to their villages, as they Supposed to Stay and live with them. our officers wished to wait and know their business, as the indians sayed that they were near this on the opposite Side of the River. So our Intrepeter one of the party and two frenchmen was Sent across the River in order to go & See if the report was true. the wind Gentle from the South. |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: This morning we had the dryed meat secured in skins and the canoes loaded; we took breakfast and departed at 9 A. M. we continued up the N. side of the river nearly to the place at which we had encamped on the 3rd of Nov. when we passed the river to the south side in quest of the hunters we had sent up yesterday and the day before. from the appearance of a rock near which we had encamped on the 3rd of November last I could judge better of the rise of the water than I could at any point below. I think the flood of this spring has been about 12 feet higher than it was at that time; the river is here about 1½ miles wide; it's general width from the beacon rock which may be esteemed the head of tide water, to the marshey islands is from one to 2 miles tho' in many places it is still wider. it is only in the fall of the year when the river is low that the tides are persceptable as high as the beacon rock. this remarkable rock which stands on the North shore of the river is unconnected with the hills and rises to the hight of seven hundred feet; it has some pine or reather fir timber on it's nothern side, the southern is a precipice of it's whole hight. it rises to a very sharp point and is visible for 20 miles below on the river. at the distance of ten miles from our encampment we met with our hunters in the upper end of the bottom to which we had directed them on the South side of the river. they had killed three Elk this morning and wounded two others so badly that they expected to get them. we therefore determined to encamp for the evening at this place in order to dry the meat, in surch of which we sent a party immediately and employed others in preparing scaffoalds and collecting firewood &c against their return. we found some indians with our hunters when we arrived; these people are constantly hanging about us.— the party whom we sent for the flesh of the Elk which Shannon had killed returned in the evening with that of four, one had by some mistake been omitted. Drewyer and shannon found the two wounded Elk and had killed them. we set all hands at work to prepare the meat for the saffoald they continued their operations untill late at night. we directed Shannon to go out early in the morning with a party to bring in the Elk which had been left last evening in mistake. we also directed Drewyer and the two Feildses to ascend the river early in the morning to a small bottom a few miles above and hunt untill our arrival.—
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| 1808 | John Astor Incorporates the American Fur Company |
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| 1818 | Andrew Jackson's Troops Occupy the Spanish Fort at St. Marks, Florida |
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| 1828 | Holland's Casparus van Wooden Patents Chocolate Milk Powder |
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| 1830 | Joseph Smith Organizes Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New York |
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| New Law Forbids Further Introduction of Slaves into Mexico |
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| 1831 | Sauk Indians Led by Chief Keokuk Leave Their Wisconsin Ancestral Home Moving Across the Mississippi River to Iowa |
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| 1832 | 15-week Black Hawk War Begins |
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| 1841 | John Tyler Is Inaugurated as the 10th President of the United States |
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| 1856 | Two American Troops Die in 2-day Battle with Seminole Warriors at Florida's Big Cypress Swamp |
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| 1861 | President Lincoln Meets with the Governors of IN, OH, ME and PA About Military Status of Militia |
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| Lincoln Sends Note to Governor of South Carolina of Intentions to Ship Provisions to Ft. Sumter |
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| President Lincoln Orders Troops to Land and Reinforce Florida's Fort Pickens |
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| 1862 | The Battle of Shiloh Begins in Southwest Tennessee |
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| U.S.S. Pursuit Captures the Steamer Florida Loading Cotton at Florida's North Bay |
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| At California's, Owns Valley, Hundreds of Paiute Indians Clash with 50 White Settlers, Killing 3 Settlers |
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| 1863 | President Lincoln Continues Visit with the Troops in Virginia |
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| U.S.S. Huntsville Captures the Steamer Minnie Off Florida's Charlotte Harbor |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln Listens to a British Anti-Slavery Orator at the House of Representatives |
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| 1865 | Lincoln Offers Protection for Virginia Legislators Willing to Consider Withdrawing Virginia Troops |
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| Federal Troops of General George Armstrong Custer Capture Three Confederate Regiments from Florida |
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| 1869 | Isaac Hodgson Receives Patent #88,711 for the "Roller Skate" |
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| 1870 | El Dorado, Arkansas Is Incorporated |
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| 1876 | American Chemical Society Founded at College of Pharmacy of the City of New York |
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| 1886 | The City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Is Incorporated |
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| 1893 | The Mormons Dedicate Their Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah after Forty Years of Construction |
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| Andy Bowen and Jack Burke Fight to a Draw in the Longest Fight in History (110 rounds, 7h 19m) |
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| 1895 | Oscar Wilde Arrested after Losing Libel Case Against Marquess of Queensberry |
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| 1896 | First Modern Olympic Games Opens in Athens, Greece |
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| 1900 | In Detroit, James J. Jeffries Defeats James Finnegan for Boxing's World Heavyweight Championship |
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| 1908 | A United States Bird Refuge Is Established at Florida's Tortugas Key |
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| 1909 | Robert Peary and Matthew Henson Are First People to Reach the North Pole |
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| General Motors Buys Oakland Motors |
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| 1911 | In Austin, the Texas Fine Arts Association Is Founded and the Elisabet Ney Museum Opens |
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| 1917 | The United States Declares War Against Germany and Enters WWI |
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| 1924 | U.S. Army Planes Depart Washington State to Begin First Aerial World Circumnavigation |
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| 1927 | Webber College Is Founded in Babson Park, Florida |
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| The U.S. Government Creates the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge |
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| 1930 | Will Rogers' Radio Show Premieres |
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| Twinkies Go on Sale for the First Time |
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| 1931 | Little Orphan Annie Debuts As First Serial Radio Show for Kids |
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| 1935 | 100 Stockmen from Eastern Oregon and Western Idaho Vote Unanimously to Keep the Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation Open |
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| 1936 | Tornado Kills 187 in Gainesville, Georgia, Leaving More Than 2,000 Homeless |
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| 1941 | Nazi Germany Invades Yugoslavia and Greece |
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| British Liberate Ethiopia from Italian Occupation |
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| 1947 | The First Tony Awards Are Held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City |
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| 1948 | "Army Day" Is Observed in the United States |
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| 1952 | Blacks Begin Civil Disobedience Campaign to Protest South Africa's Segregation Laws |
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| 1954 | Swansons Introduces First TV Dinner (Turkey, Sweet Potatoes, Peas) |
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| 1955 | The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories by Eudora Welty Is Published |
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| 1957 | Perry Como's "Round and Round" Hits #1 on the Pop Music Charts |
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| 1958 | Arnold Palmer Wins His First Major Golf Tournament, The Masters |
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| 1965 | NASA Launches Intelsat 1, the World's First Commercial Communications Satellite |
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| 1968 | U.S. Erupts in Racial Violence 2 Days after King Assassination: Several Die |
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| Black Panther, Bobby Hutton, Is Killed in a Shootout with Police in Oakland, California |
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| San Antonio, Texas Hosts HemisFair 68 |
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| 1973 | The Yankees Ron Blomberg Is Baseball's First Designated Hitter |
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| 1974 | The Seattle Mariners Play Their First Baseball Game in Seattle, Losing 7-0 to the California Angels in the Kingdome |
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| 1975 | A Plane Carrying 99 Vietnamese Orphans Arrives At London's Heathrow Airport |
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| 1977 | 6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 348 in Iran |
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| 1982 | In the Minneapolis, Metrodome's First Professional Baseball Game, the Minnesota Twins Lose to the Seattle Mariners, 11-7 |
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| 1984 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-41C) for First On-Orbit Satellite Repair |
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| 1986 | President Jaafar Nimeri of Sudan Is Overthrown in a Bloodless Military Coup |
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| 1988 | McDonald's 10,000th Restaurant Opens in Dale City, Virginia |
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| 1989 | British Government Abolishes Job Guarantees for Dock Workers |
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| 1990 | Soviet & U.S. Negotiators Discuss Reunification of Germany |
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| 1994 | The Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi Are Killed in a Plane Crash |
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| 1997 | NASA Cuts Space Shuttle Columbia Mission Short Due to Defective Fuel Cell |
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| 1998 | Dow Jones Industrial Average Closes above 9,000 Points for the First Time |
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| 1999 | Chilean Immigrant Wins $197,000,000 in the Massachusetts State Lottery |
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| 2009 | Earthquake Kills More Than 200 People in Central Italy |
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