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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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Republic of the Philippines: Araw ng Kagitingan/Bataan Day
(Memorial Day for those Filipinos who died at the fall of Bataan: 04/09/1942) |
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Tunisia: Martyrs' Day
(Commemoration of the 122 Tunisians killed while rioting for independence from France) |
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United States: National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day
(Observed in remembrance of the surrender of the Bataan Peninsula to the Japanese: 04/09/1942) |
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1908 | Joseph Krumgold (New Jersey-born Children's Authors Awarded 1954 and 1960 Newbery Medals) |
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1915 | Leonard Wibberley (Irish-American Children's Author) |
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1923 | Gloria Kamen (New York City-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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1964 | Margaret Peterson Haddix (Ohio-born Children's Author) |
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1821 | Charles Baudelaire (French Poet) |
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1875 | Jacques Futrelle (Georgia-born Journalist, Mystery Writer) |
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1936 | Ghassan Kanafani (Palestinian Writer) |
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1830 | Eadweard Muybridge (English Photographer) |
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1908 | Victor Vassarely (Hungarian Artist; "Father" of Op-Art) |
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1883 | Frank King (Wisconsin-born Comic-Strip Artist of "Gasoline Alley") |
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1887 | Florence Smith Price (Arkansas-born African-American Composer, Pianist, Organist) |
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1888 | Sol Hurok (Ukrainian-American Classical Ballet and Music Impresario) |
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1906 | Antal Dorati (Hungarian-American Conductor) |
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1806 | Isambard Kingdom Brunel (English Civil Engineer) |
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1864 | Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti (English Pioneer Alternating Electrical Current) |
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1865 | Charles Proteus Steinmetz (Polish-American Mathematician, Engineer Who Pioneered the Widespread Use of Electricity) |
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1903 | Gregory Pincus (New Jersey-born Pioneer in Birth Control) |
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1919 | J. Presper Eckert (Pennsylvania-born Computer Pioneer) |
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1932 | Jim Fowler (Georgia-born Naturalist: Host of "Wild Kingdom") |
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1895 | Howard Edward Butt (Tennessee-born Founder of H-E-B Grocery Store Chain) |
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1738 | John Bacon (Connecticut-born Clergyman, Congressman) |
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1758 | Fisher Ames (Massachusetts-born Orator, Statesman, Congressman) |
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1860 | Emily Hobhouse (English Reformer, Social Worker) |
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1872 | Leon Blum (French Politician; First Socialist and Jewish Premier of France: 1936-37) |
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1876 | Park Trammell (Alabama-born Governor of Florida, U.S. Senator) |
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1905 | J. William Fulbright (Missouri-born Arkansas U.S. Senator: Namesake of the Fulbright Scholarships) |
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1879 | W.C. Fields (Pennsylvania-born Actor) |
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1898 | Paul Robeson (New Jersey-born African-American Actor, Singer, Political Activist) |
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1909 | Ward Bond (Nebraska-born Actor) |
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1928 | Tom Lehrer (New York City-born Songwriter, Satirist) |
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1933 | Jean-Paul Belmondo (French Actor) |
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1935 | Avery Schreiber (Illinois-born Comedic Actor) |
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1939 | Michael Learned (Washington, D.C.-born Actress) |
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1954 | Dennis Quaid (Texas-born Actor) |
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1971 | Austin Peck (Hawaii-born Actor) |
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1978 | Rachel Stevens (English Actress) |
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1979 | Keshia Knight Pulliam (New Jersey-born African-American Actress: Rudi on The Cosby Show) |
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1898 | Earl (Curly) Lambeau (Wisconsin-born Football Coach; Founder of the Green Bay Packers) |
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1917 | Ron Burgess (Welsh Soccer Player) |
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1971 | Jacques Villeneuve (Canadian Race Driver) |
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1483 | King Edward IV of England |
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1626 | Francis Bacon (English Statesman, Philosopher, Author) |
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1909 | Francis Marion Crawford (American Romantic and Historical Novelist) |
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1945 | Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German Theologian Hanged by the Nazis) |
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1959 | Frank Lloyd Wright (Wisconsin-born Architect) |
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1976 | Phil Ochs (Texas-born Singer, Songwriter) |
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1999 | Ibrahim Bare Mainassara (President of Niger: Assassinated by Members of His Own Presidential Guard) |
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1679 | The First Census Is Recorded for South Africa's Cape |
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1682 | Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle Claims the Entire Mississippi Watershed (Louisiana Territory) for France |
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1722 | Jean-Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe Reaches Big Rock in His Exploration of the Arkansas River |
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1778 | Jeremiah Wadsworth Is Named Commissary General of Purchases for the Continental Army |
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1789 | Geographer David Thompson Begins the Last Part of His 4,000-mile Survey of Minnesota's Northern Wilderness |
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1796 | Bethel African Church, Philadelphia: First US-African Church |
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1806 |
![]() Lewis: This morning early we commenced the operation of reloading our canoes; at 7 A. M. we departed and proceeded on to the Camp of Reubin and Joseph Fields they had not killed any game; we made no halt at this place but continued our rout to the Wah-clel-lah Village which is situated on the North side of the river about a mile below the beacon rock; here we halted and took breakfast. John Colter one of our party observed the tomehawk in one of the lodges which had been stolen from us on the 4th of November last as we decended this river; the natives attempted to wrest the tomahawk from him but he retained it. they indeavoured afterwards to exculpate themselves from the odium of having stolen it, they alledged that they had bought it from the natives below; but their neighbours had several days previously, informed us that these people had stolen the Tommehawk and then had it at their village. this village appears to be the winter station of the Wah-clel-lahs and Clahclellars, the greater part of the former have lately removed to the falls of the Multnomah, and the latter have established themselves a few miles above on the North side of the river opposite the lower point of brant island, being the commencement of the rapids, here they also take their salmon; they are now in the act of removing, and not only take with them their furniture and effects but also the bark and most of the boards which formed their houses. 14 houses remain entire but are at this time but thinly inhabited, nine others appear to have been lately removed, and the traces of ten or twelve others of ancient date were to be seen in the rear of their present village. they sometimes sink their houses in the earth, and at other times have their floors level with the surface of the earth; they are generally built with boards and covered with Cedar bark. most of them have a devision in their houses near the entrance wich is at the end or in the event of it's bing a double house is from the center of a narrow passage. several families inhabit one appartment. the women of these people piece the cartelage of the nose in which they wear various ornaments in other rispects they do not differ from those in the neighbourhood of the Diamond island; tho' most of the women brad their hair which hanges in two tresses one hanging over each ear. these people were very unfriendly, and seemed illy disposed had our numbers not detered them any acts of violence. with some difficuly we obtained five dogs from them and a few wappetoe. on our way to this village we passed several beautifull cascades which fell from a great hight over the stupendious rocks which cloles the river on both sides nearly, except a small bottom on the South side in which our hunters were encamped. the most remarkable of these casscades falls about 300 feet perpendicularly over a solid rock into a narrow bottom of the river on the south side. it is a large creek, situated about 5 miles above our encampment of the last evening. several small streams fall from a much greater hight, and in their decent become a perfect mist which collecting on the rocks below again become visible and decend a second time in the same manner before they reach the base of the rocks. the hills have now become mountains high on each side are rocky steep and covered generally with fir and white cedar. we saw some turkey buzzards this morning of the speceis common to the United states which are the first we have seen on this side the rocky mountains. during our halt at this village the grand Cheif and two inferior Cheifs of the Chil-luck-kit-te-quaw nation arrived with several men and women of their nation in two large canoes. these people were on their return up the river, having been on a trading voyage to the Columbean vally, and were loaded with wappetoe dryed anchovies, with some beads &c which they had received in exchange for dryed and pounded salmon shappelell beargrass &c These people had been very kind to us as we decended the river we therefore smoked with them and treated them with every attention. at 2 P. M. we renewed our voyage; passed under the beacon rock on the north side, to the left of two small islands situated near the shore. at four P.M. we arrived at the Clah-clel-lah village; here we found the natives busily engaged in erecting their new habitations, which appear to be reather of a temperary kind; it is most probable that they only reside here during the salmon season. we purchased two dogs of these people who like those of the village blow were but sulky and illy disposed; they are great rogues and we are obliged to keep them at a proper distance from our baggage. as we could not ascend the rapid by the North side of the river with our large canoes, we passed to the oposite side and entered the narrow channel which seperates brant Island from the South shore; the evening being far spent and the wind high raining and very cold we thought best not to attempt the rapids this evening, we therefore sought a safe harbour in this narrow channel and encamped on the main shore. our small canoe with Drewyer and the two feildses was unable to pass the river with us in consequence of the waves they therefore toed her up along the N. side of the river and encamped opposite the upper point of brant Island. after halting this evening I took a turn with my gun in order to kill a deer, but was unsuccessful. I saw much fresh sign. the fir has been lately injured by a fire near this place and many of them have discharged considerable quantities of rozin. we directed that Collins should hunt a few hours tomorrow morning and that Gibson and his crew should remain at his place untill we returned and employ themselves in collectng rozin which our canoes are now in want of.
Clark:
last night at a late hour the old emaciated Indian who was detected in Stealing a Spoon yesterday, Crept upon his belley with his hands and feet, with a view as I Suppose to take Some of our baggage which was in Several defferent parcels on the bank. the Sentinal observed the motions of this old amcinated retch untill he got with a fiew feet of the baggage at he hailed him and approached with his gun in a possion as if going to Shoote which allarmed the old retch in Such a manner that he ran with all his power tumbleing over brush and every thing in his way.
made 16 Miles to day. evening wet & disagreeable.
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1816 | A Three-Day Meeting Is Begun in Philadelphia to Organize the African Methodist Episcopal Church |
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1824 | The First Seven Persons Arrive from North Carolina to Settle the New Town of Tallahassee, Florida |
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1830 | The First Edition of the Dutch Newspaper De Zuid-Afrikaan Is Published in South Africa's Cape Colony |
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1833 | The First American Tax-Supported Public Library Is Founded in Peterborough, New Hampshire |
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1839 | Rose Ann Perry Marries James Clewett in St. Paul, Minnesota's First Christian Wedding, Officiated by the Reverend J. W. Pope, a Methodist Missionary |
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1849 | Word Reaches Minnesota That President Polk Approved the Area as an Official U.S. Territory a Month Earlier |
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1856 | The California Legislature Incorporates Tehama County From Parts of Shasta, Butte, and Colusa Counties |
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1859 | 23-yr-old Samuel Clemens Receives His Steamboat Pilot's License |
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1862 | President Lincoln Writes to General McClellan: "You Must Act" |
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1865 | Lee Surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia |
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President Lincoln Spends His Day Steaming Up the Potomac, Reading Aloud Passages from Shakespeare |
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Crowds in Washington, D.C. Light Bonfires to Celebrate Lee's Surrender to Grant |
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1866 | Congress Overturns Veto by President Johnson to Pass Civil Rights Bill Granting African Americans Full U.S. Citizenship |
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1867 | U.S. Senate Ratifies the Purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 |
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1869 | Boone County, Arkansas Is Created |
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1872 | Delegates Approve a New Constitution for West Virginia |
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1881 | Billy the Kid is Convicted of Murder in New Mexico |
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1896 | Jake Shinn Uncovers a 22-pound Gold Nugget in North Carolina |
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1901 | Oil Is Struck on a Farm Near Troutdale, Oregon |
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1909 | U.S. Congress Passes the Payne-Aldrich Act |
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1915 | President Woodrow Wilson Announces the Route of the Alaska Railroad between Seward and Fairbanks |
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1917 | Canadian Troops Capture Vimy Ridge in France |
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1918 | German Troops Launch Last-Ditch Spring Offensive Against Allied Positions in Armentieres, France, on the River Lys |
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1924 | Watervliet, Michigan Is Incorporated as a City |
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1928 | Mae West Open in New York in Diamond Lil |
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1931 | The Scottsboro Boys, Eight African-American Young Men Ages 13 to 21, Are Sentenced to Death |
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1939 | More Than 75,000 Attend a Marian Anderson Open-Air Easter Concert at the Lincoln Memorial |
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1940 | German Troops Invade Norway & Denmark Without Any Declaration of War |
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1942 | U.S. and Filipino Troops Surrender the Bataan Peninsula to the Japanese |
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1945 | Defiant Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer Is Hanged by the Nazis |
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1947 | Tornadoes Strike West Texas & Oklahoma: 169 Die |
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Members of the Congress on Racial Equality Begin 14-Day Freedom Ride to Protest Segregation on Interstate Bus |
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1950 | Bob Hope Makes His First National Appearance on Television |
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1952 | 5.5 Magnitude Earthquake Is Largest in Oklahoma's Recorded History, Causing 15m Crack in the State Capitol Building |
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1959 | NASA Introduces Its First Seven Astronauts to the Public |
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1960 | A Disgruntled Farmer Fires Two Shots at South Africa's Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd in a Failed Assassination Attempt |
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1962 | West Side Story Wins Academy Award for Best Picture |
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President Kennedy Throws Out the First Pitch at the Opening Game in D.C. Stadium |
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Arnold Palmer Wins His Third Masters Golf Tournament in a Three-Way Playoff |
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1963 | Posthumous Presidential Proclamation Makes Winston Churchill the First Honorary U.S. Citizen |
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1965 | Mickey Mantle Hits the First Home Run in Baseball's First Indoor Game (Houston Astrodome) |
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1967 | Boeing's First 737 Short-Range Passenger Jet Makes Its Maiden Flight |
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1968 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Is Buried in Atlanta, Georgia |
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1969 | Chicago Eight Plead Not Guilty to Federal Conspiracy Charges |
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English Bus Drivers of the Sikh Faith Are Granted Right to Wear Turbans on the Job |
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Harvard Students Take over University Hall to Protest the Escalation of the War In Vietnam |
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1970 | After a Year of Negotiations and a 24-day Strike, the University of Wisconsin Signs a Labor Contract with the Teaching Assistants' Association |
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1972 | Jane Fonda Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress |
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Jack Nicklaus Wins His Fourth Masters Golf Tournament |
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1974 | A Patent Is Granted for a Disposable Syringe |
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The San Diego Chicken Makes Its Appearance as the First Mascot of a Professional Sports Team |
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1975 | NASA Launches GEOS 3 Tracking Satellite |
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1976 | 6.7 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 8 and Injures 46 in Ecuador's Esmeraldas Area |
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1978 | Gary Player Wins His Third Masters Golf Tournament |
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1980 | Soviet Soyuz 35 Carries 2 Cosmonauts to Salyut 6 |
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1983 | 6th Space Shuttle Mission (Challenger's Maiden Voyage) Is Completed |
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1985 | 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Causes Injuries and Damages Along the Near Coast of Central Chile |
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1989 | England's Nick Faldo Wins His First Masters Golf Tournament |
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1990 | Agreement Grants Native Americans Control of 180,000 sq. km of Canada's Northwest Territory Mackenzie Valley |
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1991 | Republic of Georgia Declares Its Independence from the Soviet Union |
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1992 | In Miami, Florida, Panamanian Dictator, Manuel Noriega, Is Convicted on 8 Drug & Racketeering Charges |
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1994 | Space Shuttle Endeavor (STS-59) Is Launched on 13-Day Mission |
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1995 | Ben Crenshaw Wins the Masters Golf Tournament |
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1997 | Doug Engelbart Awarded $500K Lemelson-MIT Prize for the Invention of the Computer Mouse |
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1998 | America's National Prisoner of War Museum Is Dedicated at Andersonville National Historic Site in Georgia |
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1999 | Niger President, Ibrahim Bare Mainassara, Is Assassinated by Members of His Own Presidential Guard |
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2000 | Fiji's Vijay Singh Wins His First Masters Golf Tournament |
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The Andersen Library Opens at the University of Minnesota |
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2001 | American Airlines' Acquires Bankrupt Trans World Airlines, Becoming America's No. 1 Carrier |
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2003 | U.S. Soldiers Help Iraqi Citizens Pull Down Baghdad Statue of Saddam Hussein |
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2005 | England's Prince Charles Weds Camilla Parker Bowles |
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2006 | Phil Mickelson Wins His Second Masters Golf Tournament in Three Years |
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