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APRIL 15 |
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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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Cambodia: Bonn Chaul Chhnam
(New Year's Celebration from April 13-15) |
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Laos: Boun Pimai/Boun Hothnam
(Traditional Laotian New Year celebrated April 13-15) |
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Palau: Youth Day
(Observed annually on this date) |
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Thailand: Songkran Festival (Water Festival)
(Songkran Day is April 13; however Songkran Festival lasts several days varying from location to location) |
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United States: Tax Day
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1865 | Walter Wingate (Scottish Poet, Children's Author) |
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1928 | Christine Price (English Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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1942 | Eleanor Schick (New York City-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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1945 | Jacqueline B. Martin (Maine-born Children's Author) |
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1843 | Henry James (New York-born Novelist of Daisy Miller, Turn of the Screw, The American) |
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1861 | Bliss Carman (Canadian Poet) |
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1892 | Corrie ten Boom (Dutch Author) |
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1919 | Lofton Mitchell (North Carolina-born African-American Author, Playwright) |
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1940 | Jeffrey Archer (English Author, Politician) |
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1951 | Kiah Michelle Cruse (Texas-born Columnist of "Hint's from Heloise") |
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1452 | Leonardo daVinci (Italian Artist, Inventor, Scientist) |
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1741 | Charles Willson Peale (Pennsylvania-born Portrait Painter of Leading American Revolution Figures) |
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1889 | Thomas Hart Benton (Missouri-born Artist) |
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1915 | Arshile Gorky (Turkish-American Postsurrealist Abstract Painter) |
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1928 | Norma Merrick Sklarek (New York City-born African-American Architect) |
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1800 | James Clark Ross (Scottish Explorer; Discoverer of the North Magnetic Pole) |
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1707 | Leonhard Euler (Swiss Mathematician, Physicist) |
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1786 | Walter Channing (Rhode Island-born Physician; Pioneer in the Use of Anesthetics) |
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1874 | Johannes Stark (German-born 1919 Nobel Laureate for Physicist) |
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1880 | Max Wertheimer (Czech-American Psychologist; Founder of Gestalt Psychology) |
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1896 | May Edward Chinn (Massachusetts-born African-American, Native-American Physician in New York City) |
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1907 | Nikolaas Tinbergen (Dutch-English Zoologist and Ethologist; 1973 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine) |
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1817 | Benjamin Jowett (English Educator and Greek Scholar) |
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1858 | Emile Durkheim (French Philosopher) |
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1877 | David Ross (Scottish Philosopher) |
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1684 | Catherine I (Empress of Russia) |
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1859 | Luren D. Dickinson (New York-born Governor of Michigan) |
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1883 | Stanley Bruce (Australian Prime Minister: 1923-29) |
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1883 | Stanley Bruce (Australian Prime Minister: 1923-29) |
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1889 | A. Philip Randolph (Florida-born African-American Labor Activist; Founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters) |
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1915 | Walter Washington (Georgia-born First African-American Mayor of Washington, D.C.) |
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1922 | Harold Washington (First African-American Mayor of Chicago) |
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1898 | Bessie Smith (Tennessee-born African-American Blues Singer) |
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1917 | Hans Conried (Maryland-born Actor) |
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1920 | Hilda Simms (Minnesota-born African-American Actress) |
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1933 | Roy Clark (Virginia-born Country Singer, Musician) |
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Elizabeth Montgomery (California-born Actress; Star of the Television Series Bewitched) |
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1938 | Claudia Cardinale (Italian Actress) |
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1959 | Emma Thompson (English Actress) |
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1990 | Emma Watson (English Actress) |
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1957 | Evelyn Ashford (Louisiana-born African-American Member of the International; Track and Field Hall of Fame) |
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1865 | Abraham Lincoln (Kentucky-born President of the United States: Assassination) |
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1872 | Peter Godwin Van Winkle (New York City-born United States Senator From West Virginia) |
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1925 | John Singer Sargent (Italian Portrait Artist) |
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1980 | Jean-Paul Sartre (French Philosopher, Author) |
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1990 | Greta Garbo (Swedish Actress) |
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Ava Gardner (North Carolina-born Actress) |
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1994 | Ralph Ellison (Oklahoma-born African-American Author) |
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1998 | Pol Pot (Cambodian Dictator; Founder of the Khmer Rouge) |
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2000 | Edward Gorey (Chicago-born Author, Artist) |
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2010 | Benjamin Hooks (Tennessee-born African-American Civil Rights Leader) |
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1741 | In London, the Georgia Trustees Divide the Colony into Two Counties -- Savannah and Frederica |
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1775 | Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language Is First Published |
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1776 | Georgia's Provincial Congress Issues Its Rules and Regulations as a Provisional Constitution Until Adoption of the State Constitution of 1777 |
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1783 | The Continental Congress Ratifies Preliminary Articles of Peace Ending the Revolutionary War with Great Britain |
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1800 | The U.S. Congress Approves the Harrison Land Act Providing Settlers the Right to Purchase Land in the Northwest Territory |
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1805 |
![]() Lewis: Set out at an early hour this morning. I walked on shore, and Capt. Clark continued with the party it being an invariable rule with us not to be both absent from our vessels at the same time. I passed through the bottoms of the river on the Stard. side. they were partially covered with timber & were extensive, level and beatifull. in my walk which was about 6 miles I passed a small rivulet of clear water making down from the hills, which on tasting, I discovered to be in a small degree brackish. it possessed less of the glauber salt, or alumn, than those little streams from the hills usually do.— in a little pond of water fromed by this rivulet where it entered the bottom, I heard the frogs crying for the first time this season; their note was the same with that of the small frogs which are common to the lagoons and swam[p]s of the U States.— I saw great quantities of gees feeding in the bottoms, of which I shot one. saw some deer and Elk, but they were remarkably shy. I also met with great numbers of Grouse or prairie hens as they are called by the English traders of the N. W. these birds appeared to be mating;
after breakfast Capt. Clark walked on the Std. shore, and on his return in the evening gave me the following account of his ramble. I assended to the high country, about 9 miles distant from the Missouri. the country consists of beatifull, level and fertile plains, destitute of timber I saw many little dranes, which took their rise in the river hills, from whence as far as I could see they run to the N. E. I saw the remains of several camps of the Assinniboins; near one
we passed a rock this evening standing in the middle of the river, and the bed
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1806 |
![]() Lewis: We delayed this morning untill after breakfast in order to purchase some horses of the Indians; accordingly we exposed some articles in exchange for horses the natives were unwilling to barter, we therefore put up our merchandize and at 8 A. M. we set out. we halted a few minutes at the sepulchre rock, and examined the deposits of the ded at that place. these were constructed in the same manner of those already discribed below the rapids. some of them were more than half filled with dead bodies. there were thirteen sepulchres on this rock which stands near the center of the river and has a surface of about 2 acres above high-water mark.— from hence we returned to the nothern shore and continued up it about four miles to another village of the same nation with whom we remained last night. here we halted and informed the natives of our wish to purchase horses; the produced us several for sale but would not take the articles which we had in exchange for them. they wanted an instrument which the Northwest traders call an eye-dag [a sort of war hatchet] which we had not. we procured two dogs of them and departed. a little below the entrance of Cataract river we halted at another village of the same people, at which we were equally unsuccessfull in the purchase of horses. we also halted at the two villages of the Chilluckkittequaws a few miles above with no better success. at three in the evening we arrived at the entrance of Quinnette creek which we ascended a short distance and encamped at the place we have called rockfort camp. here we were visited by some of the people from the villages at the great narrows and falls. we informed them of our wish to purchase horses, & agreed to meet them on the opposite or North side of the river tomorrow for the purpose of bartering with them. most of them returned to their villages this evening three only remained with us all night. these people are much better clad than any of the nations below; their men have generally leging mockersons and large robes, many of them wear shirts of the same form those of the Chopunnish and Shoshonees highly ornamented with the quills of the porcupine as are also their mockersons and legings. the dress of their women differs very little from those about the rapids. both men and women cut their hair in the forehead which comes down as low as the eyebrows, they have long earlocks cut square at the end. the other part of their hair is dressed in the same manner as those of the rapids. after we landed and formed our camp this evening Drewyer and some others took a hunt and killed a deer of the longtailed kind. it was a buck and the young horns had shot fourth about 2 inches.— |
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1813 | U.S. Forces Seize Control of Alabama's Ft. Charlotte and Mobile from Spain |
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1815 | Indonesia's Tambora Volcano Erupts for the Second Time in Five Days |
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1817 | First American School for the Deaf Founded in Hartford, Connecticut |
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1825 | The Government of Mexico Issues Contracts to Encourage the Settlement of Texas |
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1829 | Edgar Allan Poe Is Released From the Army and Applies for an Appointment to West Point |
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1837 | Abraham Lincoln Moves to Springfield, Illinois and Opens a Law Practice |
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1841 | In Texas, the Austin Lyceum, a Society for Debates and Lectures, Is Dissolved |
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1850 | The City of San Francisco Is Incorporated |
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1854 | The Washington Territorial Legislature Creates Sawamish (Mason) County |
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1861 | Abraham Lincoln Issues Proclamation Calling for 75,000 Militia and Convening Congress |
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Wisconsin Governor Alexander W. Randall Receives a Telegram from Washington, D.C. Requesting One Regiment of 780 Men to Serve for 3 Months |
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In Wabash, Indiana, the Society of Friends Opens White's Manual Labor Institute for the Education of Boys and Girls |
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1862 | President Lincoln Sends to Senate Treaty with "Sac and Fox, of the Missouri, and the Iowa Tribes, of Indians" |
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The 6th Florida Infantry Regiment Is Mustered into Confederate Service At Chattahoochee |
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The Indecisive Battle of Peralta Is the Last Civil War Conflict Fought in New Mexico |
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1863 | The U.S.S. William G. Anderson Captures the Confederate Schooner, Royal Yacht, Carrying Cotton Off of Florida's Gulf Coast |
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1864 | President Lincoln Sends to the Senate a Supplemental Treaty with the Chippewa Indians |
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1865 | President Lincoln Is Pronounced Dead at 7:22 a.m. |
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Andrew Johnson Becomes the 17th President of the United States After the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
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1866 | The Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association Is Formed to Help Honor Living and Deceased Confederate Veterans |
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1869 | The Supreme Court Rules That Texas Has the Right to Sue in U.S. Federal Courts Despite Having Seceded From the Union |
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1876 | The First Telegraph Line in Northern Wisconsin Is Completed Near Ashland |
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1880 | General Ulysses S. Grant Visits Little Rock, Arkansas |
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1888 | Spokane, Washington's First Streetcar Takes Its Inaugural Trip |
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1892 | A Pistol Shot Begins a Stampede of Settlers onto Minnesota's 600,000 Acre Lake Traverse Reservation |
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1896 | Henry Flagler's First Train Arrives in Miami, Florida Carrying Building Materials |
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1900 | Paris International Exposition Opens |
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1912 | The Titanic Sinks in North Atlantic off Coast of Newfoundland |
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South Africa's First National Weather Forecast Is Issued |
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The Schoolchildren of St. Paul, Minnesota Select the Sweet Pea as the City's Official Flower in an Election Sponsored by the City's Women's Clubs |
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1916 | Minnesota's First Regulated Trout Season Opens |
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1918 | British Evacuate Passchendaele Ridge |
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The First Marine Aviation Squadron Is Created at Miami, Florida's Naval Air Station |
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1924 | Rand McNally Releases Its First Comprehensive Road Atlas |
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1927 | In Los Angeles, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford Are Two of the First Celebrities to Leave Their Footprints in Cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater |
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1929 | Anscel Eckmann Arrives at Juneau in a Lockheed Vega Plane, Completing the First Non-Stop Flight from Seattle to Alaska |
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1932 | 17-year-old Walter Dubuc Is Hanged as the Youngest Person Ever Executed in Washington |
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1943 | In Marietta, Georgia, Robert & Company Construction Turns Its Facilities Over to the Army Air Force |
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1944 | Soviets Capture Tarnopol in Poland |
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Minnesota's Farm-Labor Party and the State Democratic Party Agree to Merge |
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1945 | Franklin Roosevelt Is Buried at Hyde Park |
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British and Canadian Troops Liberate the Nazi Concentration Camp Bergen-Belsen |
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1946 | Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty Is Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in New York |
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1947 | Jackie Robinson Is the First African-American to Play in Major League Baseball |
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1948 | TV Talent Show Hollywood Screen Test Debuts |
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1949 | In Berkeley, California, KPFA Begins Broadcasting as the First Listener-Supported Radio Station in the United States |
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1952 | The YB-52 Prototype for the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Takes Its First Flight |
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1954 | In Johannesburg, South Africa, African National Congress Member Walter Sisulu Protests the Forced Removal of Blacks From Places Marked "For Whites Only" |
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For the First Year, April 15 Is the Deadline for Tax Filing in the United States |
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1955 | Ray Kroc Opens the First Franchised McDonald's |
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1956 | An F4 Tornado Travels 20 Miles Through Jefferson County, Alabama, Killing 25 People, Injuring 200 and Destroying or Damaging More Than 350 Homes |
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1959 | Cuban Revolutionary Fidel Castro Visits the United States |
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1964 | Ground-Breaking Ceremonies Are Held for the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Home for the New Atlanta Braves Franchise |
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1965 | In Virginia, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Opens |
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James Baldwin's The Amen Corner Is Produced as a Play on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre |
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1967 | Massive Anti-war Rallies Are Held in San Francisco & New York City |
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1970 | U.S. Withdraws the 1st Infantry from Vietnam |
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1972 | Elvis Presley Appears in His First Georgia Concert, Performing in the Macon Coliseum |
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1973 | South Africa's National Record for the 5,000m Is Broken by Black Runner Matthews Motshwarateu |
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1974 | Canada Announces Its First National Lottery Winners |
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1975 | First Whale-Watching Excursion on the Eastern Seaboard Departs from Massachusetts's Provincetown Harbor |
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1979 | In Yugoslavia, a 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake Kills At Least 121 People, Injuring More Than 1,000 and Leaving 100,000 Homeless |
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1986 | A United States Air Raid Kills 37 People in Libya, Most of Them Civilians |
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1987 | The Milwaukee Brewers' Juan Nieves Is the First Puerto Rican Pitcher to Throw a No-Hitter in Major League Baseball |
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1988 | The Wisconsin Family and Medical Leave Act Is Enacted |
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1989 | 93 English Soccer Fans Are Crushed at a Match Between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool. |
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1992 | The United Nation Sanctions Libya for Harboring Suspects of the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing |
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Billionaire Leona Helmsley Sent to Jail for Tax Evasion |
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1996 | South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Begins Formal Hearings in East London |
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1999 | Three Planets Are Found Orbiting the Star Upsilon Andromedae |
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2000 | White farmer, Davis Stevens, Is Shot Dead in Zimbabwe by Squatters Occupying His Land |
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Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles Becomes the 24th Major League Player to Reach 3,000 Hits |
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2002 | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Returns to Office Two Days after Being Ousted and Arrested |
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Byron White Retires as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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2003 | Looters and Arsonists Ransack and Gut Iraq's National Library, as Well as Iraq's Principal Islamic Library |
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