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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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Japan: Hana Matsuri Flower Festival
(Celebration of the birth of Buddha) |
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1903 | Harold Keith (Oklahoma-born Children's Author Awarded the 1958 Newbery Medal for Rifles for Watie) |
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1920 | Ruth Chew (Minnesota-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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1939 | Trina Schart Hyman (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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1947 | Susan Bonners (Chicago-born Children's Author , Illustrator) |
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1951 | Linda Crew (Oregon-born Children's Author) |
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1952 | Steven Schnur (American Jewish Children's Author) |
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1873 | Alfred Jarry (French Writer) |
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1911 | John Fante (Colorado-born Novelist) |
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1914 | Robert Giroux (New Jersey-born Editor, Publisher) |
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1937 | Seymour Hersh (Chicago-born Investigative Journalist, Author) |
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1954 | Vincent Oliphant (South African Poet) |
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1955 | Barbara Kingsolver (Maryland-born Author) |
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1783 | John Loudon (Scottish Landscape Architect and Horticultural Journalist) |
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1692 | Giuseppe Tartini (Italian Violinist, Composer, Theorist) |
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1888 | (E.Y.) "Yip" Harburg (New York City-born Lyricist) |
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1889 | Adrian Boult (English Conductor of the BBC Symphony) |
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1732 | David Rittenhouse (Pennsylvania-born Astronomer and Inventor) |
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1850 | William Welch (Connecticut-born Pathologist, Bacteriologist) |
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1869 | Harvey Cushing (Ohio-born Surgeon; Pioneer in Neurosurgery Techniques) |
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1904 | John Hicks (English-born 1972 Nobel Laureate for Economist) |
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1911 | Melvin Calvin (Minnesota-born Biochemist; 1961 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) |
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1946 | Robert Louis Johnson (Mississippi-born African-American Media Mogul) |
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563 | Gautama Buddha (Founder of Buddhism) |
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1726 | Lewis Morris (New York-born Signer of the Declaration of Independence) |
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1731 | William Williams (Connecticut-born Signer of the Declaration of Independence) |
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1771 | William Rabun (North Carolina-born Governor of Georgia; Namesake of Rabun County, Georgia) |
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1842 | Elizabeth Bacon Custer (Michigan-born Wife of General George Armstrong Custer) |
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1865 | Albion Fellows Bacon (Indiana-born Advocate for Quality Public Housing) |
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1875 | Albert I, King of the Belgium (1909-1934) |
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1899 | Zaphaniah Alexander Looby (British West Indies-born African-American Attorney, Civil Rights Activist) |
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1918 | Betty Ford (Chicago-born Wife of U.S. President Gerald Ford) |
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1938 | Kofi Annan (Secretary General of the United Nations) |
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1939 | Martin Schreiber (Governor of Wisconsin) |
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1947 | Tom DeLay (Texas-born Member of the U.S. Congress) |
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1893 | Mary Pickford (Canadian Actress) |
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1922 | Carmen McRae (New York City-born African-American Jazz Singer, Pianist) |
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1926 | Shecky Greene (Chicago-born Comedian) |
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1941 | Peggy Lennon (California-born Popular Singer Member of the Lennon Sisters) |
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1943 | Michael Bennett (New York-born Director, Choreographer, Dancer, Singer) |
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1963 | Julian Lennon (English Popular Musician; Son of John Lennon) |
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1968 | Patricia Arquette (Chicago-born Emmy Award-Winning Actress) |
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1984 | Kirsten Storms (Florida-born Actress) |
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1912 | Sonja Henie (Norwegian-American Member of the International Figure Skating Hall of Fame) |
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1940 | John Havlicek (Ohio-born Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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1946 | Jim (Catfish) Hunter (North Carolina-born Professional Baseball Player) |
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1949 | Jim Lampley (North Carolina-born Sports Broadcaster) |
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1954 | Gary Carter (California-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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217 | Caracalla (Roman Emperor - Assassinated) |
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858 | Pope Benedict III (Roman Catholic Pope) |
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1364 | John I (King of England) |
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1905 | Cullen Andrews Battle (Georgia-born Confederate General) |
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1945 | Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German Theologian Hanged by the Nazis) |
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1973 | Pablo Picasso (Spanish Painter) |
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1981 | Omar Bradley (Missouri-born U.S. General in World War II) |
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1990 | Ryan White (Indiana Pioneer Teenage AIDS Victim) |
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1993 | Marian Anderson (Pennsylvania-born African-American Opera Singer) |
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1513 | Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon Claims Florida for Spain |
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1602 | The Dutch East Indian Company Is Founded |
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1730 | First U.S. Synagogue Is Consecrated in New York City |
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1778 | John Adams Replaces Sila Deane as a Member of the American Commission in Paris, France |
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1795 | George, Prince of Wales (the Future King George IV of England) Marries Caroline Amelia Elizabeth |
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1805 |
![]() Lewis: Set out early this morning, the wind blew hard against us from the N. W. we therefore traveled very slowly. I walked on shore, and visited the black Cat, took leave of him after smoking a pipe as is their custom, and then proceeded on slowly by land about four miles where I wated the arrival of the party, at 12 Oclock they came up and informed me that one of the small canoes was behind in distress.
Capt Clark returned foud she had filled with water and all her loading wet. we Clark: Set out verry early wind hard a head from the N. W. proceeded on passed all the villages the inhabitents of which flocked down in great numbers to view us, I took my leave of the great Chief of the Mandans who gave me a par of excellent mockersons, one Canoe filed with water every thing in her got wet. 2/3 of a barrel of powder lost by this accedent.
Ordway:
clear and cold. we Set off eairly. proceeded on. passed the 2nd took breakfast at 2[nd] vil. & 3rd villages of Mandans the [wind] high from the W.
we Saw Some Snow on the N. S. of the hills, and thick Ice on and under the banks of the River. the current Swift. we passed two villages of the Grossvantares or Bigbelleys at the lowermost one comes in a handsom River called Knife River. these 2 vill. are in a bottom but little timber. back of which
we halted on a Sand beach on N. S. for the crafts to come up which was |
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1806 |
![]() Lewis: The wind blew so violently this morning that we were obliged to unlode our perogues and canoes, soon after which they filled with water. being compelled to remain during the day at our present station we sent out some hunters in order to add something to our stock of provision; and exposed our dryed meat to the sun and the smoke of small fires. in the evening the hunters returned having killed a duck only; they saw two bear and some of the blacktailed jumping or fallow deer, such as are found about Fort Clatsop; this kind of deer are scarce in this neighbourhood, the common longtailed fallow deer being most abundant. we have seen the black bear only in this quarter. the wind continued without intermission to blow violently all day. I took a walk today of three miles down the river; — late at night the centinel detected an old indian man in attempting to creep into camp in order to pilfer; he allarmed the indian very much by presenting his gun at him; he gave the fellow a few stripes with a switch and sent him off. this fellow is one of a party of six who layed incamped a few hundred years below us, they departed soon after this occurrence.—
Clark:
This morning about day light I heard a Considerable roreing like wind at a distance and in the Course of a Short time wavs rose very high which appeared to come across the river and in the Course of an hour became So high that we were obliged to unload the canoes, at 7 oClock A. M. the winds Suelded and blew So hard and raised the Waves So emensely high from the N. E and tossed our Canoes against the Shore in Such a manner as to render it necessary to haul them up on the bank.
finding from the appearance of the winds that it is probable that we may be detained all day, we Sent out Drewyer, Shannon Colter & Collins to hunt with derections to return if the Wind Should lul, if not to Continue the hunt all day except they killed Elk or bear Sooner &c. we had the dried meat which was cured at our last encampment below exposed to the Sun.
John Shields Cut out my Small rifle & brought hir to Shoot very well. the party ows much to the injenuity of this man, by whome their guns are repared when they get out of order which is very often.
I observed an Indian Woman who visited us yesterday blind of an eye, and a man who was nearly blind of both eyes. the loss of Sight I have observed to be more Common among all the nations inhabiting this river than among any people I ever observed. they have almost invariably Sore eyes at all Stages of life. the loss of an eye is very Common among them; blindness in persons of middle age is by no means uncommon, and it is almost invariably a concammitant of old age.
I Know not to what cause to attribute this prevalent deficientcy of the eye except it be their exposure to the reflection of the Sun on the water to which they are constantly exposed in the Occupation of fishing.
about 1 P M Collins Shannon and Colter returned. Collins Saw 2 bear but could not get a Shot at them. neither Shannon nor Colter Saw any thing worth Shooting. Soon after Drewyer returned haveing only a Summer Duck. the Elk is gorn to the mountains as the hunters Suppose.
in the evening late an old man his Son & Grand Son and their Wives &c. Came down dureing the time the waves raged with great fury. the wife of the Grand Son is a woman of differant appearance from any we have Seen on this river, she has a very round head and pierceing black eyes. Soon after those people arived the Old man was detected in Stealing a Spoon and he was ordered away, at about 200 yards below our Camp they built themselves a fire and did not return to our fires after—.
The Wind Continued violently hard all day, and threw our Canoes with Such force against the Shore that one of them Split before we Could get it out.
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1838 | The English Steamship Great Western Leaves Bristol on Her Maiden Voyage Across the Atlantic to Boston |
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1861 | The Confederate Government Requisitions Another 1,500 Men from Florida for Duty with the Confederate Army |
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Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown Takes Possession of the U.S. Mint at Dahlonega |
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1863 | The U.S.S. Gem of the Sea Captures the British Blockade Runner Maggie Fulton Off the Indian River Inlet |
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1864 | Confederates Rout a Much Larger Union Force at Mansfield, Louisiana |
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More Than 500 Federal Troops Are Evacuated From Jacksonville, Florida |
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President Lincoln Signs Charter for Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. |
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President and Mrs. Lincoln Join Secretary Seward and Family for Edwin Forrest's Performance of King Lear at Ford's Theatre |
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1865 | President and Mrs. Lincoln Lead a Group of Visitors to Petersburg, Virginia |
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1884 | Fordyce, Arkansas Is Incorporated |
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1871 | Robert Louis Stevenson Gives Up Engineering to Be a Writer |
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1886 | Franz Liszt Plays for England's Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle |
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1893 | In Texas, Ten Women, Mostly Members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Issue a Call for a Statewide Women's Suffrage Convention |
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1897 | The Red River Crests in Moorhead, Minnesota and the Floodwaters Drive 300 People from Their Homes |
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1904 | Britain and France Sign the Entente Cordiale, Resolving Long-Standing Colonial Disputes in North Africa |
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1905 | The Battleship Minnesota Is Launched at Newport News, Virginia |
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A J.C. Penny Golden Rule Store Opens in Grants Pass, Oregon |
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In Wisconsin, Fond du Lac Wins the Lawrence College Invitational, the First High School Basketball Tournament Held in the United States |
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1908 | Herbert Henry Asquith Becomes Prime Minister of England |
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1913 | The 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Is Ratified Requiring Direct Election of Senators of Popular Vote |
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1918 | Thousands Turn Out to Buy War Bonds From Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin in New York City's Financial District |
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1925 | In Florida, the University of Miami Is Chartered |
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1931 | The American Robin Is Chosen as Michigan's State Bird |
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1935 | President Franklin Roosevelt Signs the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act Authorizing the Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
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Gene Sarazen Beats Craig Wood in a Playoff to Win the Masters Golf Tournament |
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1942 | The U.S. War Production Board Orders a Halt to All Production Not Necessary to the War |
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German Submarine U-123 Sinks the SS Oklahoma and Esso Oil Tanker Baton Rouge in a Torpedo Attack Off Georgia's St. Simons Island |
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John Steinbeck's Play, The Moon is Down, Opens in New York City |
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1944 | Soviets Attack Germans to Recover Crimea |
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The Alaska Juneau Gold Mine, Alaska's Largest, Closes Down at Midnight |
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1945 | Nazi Troops Hang Dissident German Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
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1946 | League of Nations Convenes in Geneva, Switzerland for the 21st and Last Time |
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1950 | Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy Accuses Professor Owen Lattimore of Being a Communist |
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1951 | A Military C-47 Transport Plane Carrying 21 Airmen Crashes Near Little Sandy Creek, West Virginia |
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1952 | President Truman Places Ohio Steel Mills Under Federal Control |
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1953 | British Rulers Convict Jomo Kenyatta of Leading Mau Mau Violence Against White Settlers and the Colonial Government |
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A 1-day Sit-Down Inmate Strike Ends at the Minnesota State Prison in Stillwater When the Prison's Chef Is Fired |
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1956 | Jack Burke Jr. Wins the Masters Golf Tournament |
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1964 | The Supremes Record "Where Did Our Love Go" |
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U.S. Launches an Unmanned Gemini Capsule Aboard a Titan-II Rocket to Test Structural Integrity and Launch Vehicle-Spacecraft Compatibility |
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1966 | NASA Launches OAO 1 Solar Cell-Powered Satellite to Make Precision Astronomical Observations |
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1967 | William Faulkner Publishes "The Wishing Tree," in the Saturday Evening Post |
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1968 | Opening Day of the Major League Season Is Postponed Due to the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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In Texas, 10,000 Are in Attendance as Lady Bird Johnson Dedicates Padre Island National Seashore |
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1970 | Senate Rejects Nixon's Nomination of Carswell for the Supreme Court |
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1974 | Hank Aaron Hits Home Run 715 to Break Babe Ruth's Career Record |
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1986 | Clint Eastwood Is Elected Mayor of Carmel, California |
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1989 | In Johannesburg, South Africa, Four Political Parties Merge to Form the Democratic Party |
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1990 | England's Nick Faldo Wins His Second Consecutive Masters Golf Tournament |
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1992 | African-American Tennis Great, Arthur Ashe, Announces He Has AIDS |
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1993 | Macedonia Is Accepted As a Member of the United Nations |
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NASA Launches Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-56) with the ATLAS-2 Earth Science Laboratory Aboard |
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1999 | 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Parts of Russia, China and Japan |
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2001 | Tiger Woods Wins His Second Masters Championship Defeating David Duval by Two Shots |
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2002 | Suzan-Lori Parks Is the First African-American Woman to Receive a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Her Play "Topdog/Underdog" |
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NASA Launches Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-110) with a 43' Truss for the International Space Station. |
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2005 | Leaders from 200+ Nations Attend Funeral Mass for Pope John Paul II |
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Eric Rudolph Pleads Guilty to the Fatal Bombing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia |
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