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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 name of a children's author born on this date:
GALLON TRAY |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a book by Jane Kurtz (according to Scholastic):
BRET LOU |
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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 one of the first five books published by Isak Dinesen (according to Authors' Calendar):
CURFIA A FOOT |
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American Samoa: Flag Day
(Commemorates American Samoa becoming a U.S. territory: 04/17/1900) |
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Syria: Evacuation Day
(Observed annually to commemorate the exit of France from Syria 04/17/1946) |
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| 1924 | Roy Gallant (Maine-born Children's Science Author) |
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| 1943 | Dayal Kaur Khalsa (New York-born Canadian Children's Author) |
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| 1949 | Martin Godfrey (English Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1952 | Jane Kurtz (Oregon-born Children's Author) |
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| 1806 | William Simms (South Carolina-born Journalist, Novelist) |
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| 1863 | Constantine Cavafy (Greek Poet Born in Egypt) |
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| 1870 | Ray Stannard Baker (Michigan-born Journalist) |
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| 1895 | Isak Dinesen (Danish Author) |
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| 1897 | Thornton Wilder (Wisconsin-born Playwright) |
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| 1928 | Cynthia Ozick (New York City-born Novelist, Essayist) |
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| 1882 | Artur Schnabel (Austrian Pianist, Composer, Educator) |
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| 1903 | Nicolas Nabokov (Russian Composer) |
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| 1863 | Augustus Love (English Seismologist) |
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| 1880 | Leonard Woolley (English Archaeologist Most Famous for His Excavation Work at Ur in Southern Iraq) |
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| 1899 | Vincent Wigglesworth (English Entomologist) |
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| 1946 | Georges J.F. Köhler (German-born 1984 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine) |
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| 1837 | John Pierpont Morgan (Connecticut-born Financier; Founder of U. S. Steel) |
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| 1676 | Frederick I (King of Sweden ) |
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| 1741 | Samuel Chase (Maryland-born Signer of the Declaration of Independence; Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1823 | Mifflin W. Gibbs (Pennsylvania-born Jurist; First African American Appointed as a Municipal Judge) |
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| 1849 | William R. Day (Ohio-born Associate Justice U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1859 | Willis Van Devanter (Indiana-born Associate Justice U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1894 | Nikita Khrushchev (Ukrainian-born Leader of the Soviet Union) |
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| 1912 | Jo Ann Gibson Robinson (Georgia-born African-American Civil Rights Activist) |
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| 1890 | Johnny St. Cyr (New Orleans-born African-American Jazz Banjo, Guitar Player) |
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| 1918 | William Holden (Illinois-born Actor) |
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| 1919 | Chavela Vargas (Costa Rican Vocalist) |
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| 1923 | Harry Reasoner (Iowa-born Broadcast Journalist) |
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| 1951 | Olivia Hussey (English Actress) |
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| 1972 | Jennifer Garner (Texas-born Actress) |
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| 1852 | Cap Anson (Iowa-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1961 | Boomer Esiason (New York-born Professional Football Player: 1988 NFL Most Valuable Player) |
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| 1529 | Louis de Berquin (French Translator of Luther's Writings into French: Burned at the Stake for Heresy) |
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| 1790 | Benjamin Franklin (Massachusetts-born American Statesman, Scientist, Journalist) |
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| 1856 | William Holden Willson (New Hampshire-born Doctor, Carpenter, Whaler, Politician Who Plotted and Named Salem, Oregon) |
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| 1893 | Lucy Larcom (Massachusetts-born Poet) |
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| 1990 | Ralph Abernathy (Alabama-born African-American Civil Rights Leader) |
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| 1996 | Arnold Neustadter (New York City-born Inventor of the Rolodex) |
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| 2000 | George Morrison (Minnesota-born Abstract Painter, Sculptor) |
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| 1492 | Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella Commission Columbus to Seek a Westward Passage to Asia |
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| 1521 | Martin Luther Is Cross-Examined at the Diet of Worms by Papal Nuncio Aleander |
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| 1524 | Italian Explorer Giovanni da Verrazano, Sailing in the Service of France, Is the First European to Reach Present-Day New York Harbor |
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| 1529 | Louis de Berquin, Translator of Luther's Writings into French, Is Burned at the Stake for Heresy |
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| 1610 | Henry Hudson Sails from England for His Fourth Voyage on Which He Will Discover Hudson's Bay |
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| 1640 | Sweden's Reorus Torkillus Is the First Lutheran Pastor to Arrive in North America |
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| 1783 | British Launch Unsuccessful Raid in Arkansas on Spanish-held Fort Carlos |
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| 1802 | Detroit Levies Its First City Tax of 25 Cents per Adult to Raise $150 |
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| 1806 |
 Lewis: This morning early I sent out the hunters, and set several additional hands about the packsaddles. I find that the sturgeon is not taken by any of the natives above the Columbean vally. the inhabitants of the rapids at this time take a few of the white salmon trout and considerable quantities of a small indifferent mullet on which they principally subsist. I have seen none except dryed fish of the last season in the possession of the people above that place, they subsist on roots principally with some dryed and pounded fish. the salmon not having made their appearance proves a serious inconvenience to us. but few of the natives visited my camp today and those only remained a few hours. even at this place which is merely on the border of the plains of Columbia the climate seems to have changed the air feels dryer and more pure. the earth is dry and seems as if there had been no rain for a week or ten days. the plain is covered with a rich virdure of grass and herbs from four to nine inches high and exhibits a beautifull seen particularly pleasing after having been so long imprisoned in mountains and those almost impenetrably thick forrests of the seacoast.
Joseph Feilds brought me today three eggs of the party coloured corvus, they are about the size and shape of those
This evening Willard and Cruzatte returned from Capt. Clark and brought me a note in which Capt. C informed me that he had sill been unsuccessfull having not obtained a single horse as yet from the natives and the state of our stores are so low that I begin to fear we shall not be enabled to obtain as many horses at this place as will convey our baggage and unless we do obtain a sufficient number for that purpose we shall not hasten our progress as a part of
Capt. C informed me that he should proceed as far as the Eneshur village today and would return tomorrow and join
I dispatched Shannon with a note to Capt. Clark in which I requested him to double the price we have heretofore all the hunters returned in the evening. Sheilds had killed one deer which he brought with him. the packsaddles were completed this evening. I had some Elkskins put in the water today make harnes for the packhorses but shall not cut them untill I know the number we can obtain.—
there is a species of hiasinth in these plains the bulb of which the natives eat either boiled baked or dryed in the sun. this bulb is white, not entirely solid, and of a flat form; the bulb of the present year overlays, or crowns that of the last, and seems to be pressed close to it, the old bulb is withered much thiner
Clark:
I rose early and took a position near to the village and exposed the artiles I had for Sale Great numbers of Indians Came from different derections, Some from below Some above and others across the Countrey from the Tapteet river
— I obtained a Sketch of the Columbia as also Clarks river.
I made a bargin with the Chief who has more horses than all the village besides for 2 horses. Soon after he Canseled his bargin, and we again bargined for 3 horses, they were brought forward, and only one fit for Service, the others had Such intolerable backs as to render them entirely unfit for Service. as I would not take the 3 he would not Sell the
I then packed up and was about Setting out for the Falls when one Indian Sold me 2 horses and one other one horse, and Some others Said they w[ished] to trade which caused me to conclude to delay here one other night.
Maney of the natives from above Come and Said they would trade, but asked a higher price than I thought I could give or reather more than this nation asked.— Great numbers of Men.— I hed to purchase 3 dogs for the men to eate & Some Shap-per-lell.
I Sent Crusat, Wiser, Willard and McNeal back to Capt. Lewis informing him of my ill Suck'sess, and adviseing him to proceed on to this place as Soon as possible, and my intention of proceededing on to the falls to purchase horses if possible
Several Indians arived late this evening. Capt. Lewis Sent me a note by Shannon informing me that he would Set early on tomorrow morning early &c. &c.
I sleped in house of the 2d Chief and they had not any thing except fish to eate and no wood for fire. those people |
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| 1822 | William Pope Duval Is Commissioned as Florida's First Territorial Governor by President James Monroe |
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| 1833 | The American Premiere of Mozart's Opera "The Magic Flute" Is Performed at the Park Theatre in New York City |
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| 1838 | In South Africa, Thousands of Zulu Warriors Trap and Slaughter a British Expeditionary Force |
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| 1856 | The Minnesota Pioneer Guard, the State's First Volunteer Military Company, Is Organized in St. Paul |
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| 1861 | Virginia Secedes from the Union |
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| Confederate Army Imposes Martial Law in Pensacola, Florida and Isolates Fort Pickens |
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| U.S.S. Powhatan Arrives with More Men and Supplies for Fort Pickens, Florida |
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| President Lincoln Meets with Group from Maryland Requesting Reinforcements for Fort McHenry |
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| In Indiana, the First Volunteers Arrive at Indianapolis's Camp Morton to Begin Military Training |
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| 1863 | U.S.S. Wanderer Captures the Confederate Schooner Annie B Southwest of Florida's Egmont Key |
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| 1864 | Confederates Capture Union Garrison at Plymouth, North Carolina |
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| 1865 | Mary Surratt Is Arrested as Conspirator in Lincoln Assassination |
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| 1869 | Northern Iowa Women's Suffrage Association Is Founded in Dubuque |
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| In Alaska, the U.S. Army Establishes Fort Kenay at the Old Russian Town of Fort St. Nicholas, Today Known as Kenai |
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| 1871 | State Legislature Approves the Organization of Texas A&M University |
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| 1873 | In Arkansas, Cleveland, Lee and Howard Counties Are Created |
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| 1882 | Life of Billy the Kid Arrives at the Library of Congress |
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| 1889 | First Distant Earthquake Recording Is Made in Germany of an Earthquake in Japan |
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| 1891 | President Benjamin Harrison Visits Little Rock, Arkansas |
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| 1895 | Sino-Japanese War Ends with Treaty of Shimonoseki |
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| 1899 | Arkansas' Governor Signs an Act Approving Construction of a New State Capitol |
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| 1900 | African-American Baptist Minister W. L. Dickson Founds the Dickson Colored Orphanage in Gilmer, Texas |
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| 1905 | Washington State Highway Board Meets for the First Time |
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| 1906 | Italian Tenor Enrico Caruso Sings a Performance of Bizet's "Carmen" with the San Francisco Metropolitan Opera |
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| 1908 | "Hail Hail the Gangs All Here" Is Copyrighted |
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| 1909 | Artemis to Actaeon and other Verse by Edith Wharton Is Published by Scribner's |
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| 1911 | Charles Kettering Patents Automobile Self-starting Mechanism |
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| Town of Palm Beach, Florida Is Incorporated |
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| 1917 | British Forces Fail in Second Attempt to Capture the Palestinian City of Gaza from the Ottoman Army |
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| 1918 | Ernest Hemingway's Story "Navy Desk Jobs to Go" Appears in the Kansas City Star |
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| 1924 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) is Founded |
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| 1930 | Herberta Leonardy Is the First Florida Woman Admitted to Practice Before the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1937 | Daffy Duck Debuts in Porky's Duck Hunt |
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| 1939 | William O. Douglas Is Sworn in as Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1941 | Yugoslav Army Surrenders to Germany |
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| 1944 | Fifteen-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. Deliver His Oration "The Negro and the Constitution" |
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| 1945 | Americans Seize 1,100 tons of Uranium in Strassfut, Germany |
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| 1946 | Syria Gains Its Independence as the Last French Troops Leave the Country |
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| 1947 | Jackie Robinson's First Major League Hit Is a Bunt |
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| 1951 | The British Submarine, Affray, Sinks: All 75 Crew Members Die |
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| 1953 | Mickey Mantle Hits the Longest Recorded Home Run in History (565 Feet) |
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| 1954 | The Federation of South African Women Is Founded |
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| 1955 | Fats Domino's Releases "Ain't That a Shame" |
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| 1958 | The National Party Wins a Third Successive South African General Election |
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| 1960 | American Samoa's New Flag Is Dedicated |
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| 1961 | U.S. Bay of Pigs Invasion Fails to Overthrow Castro |
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| Ground Is Broken for Construction of the Seattle Space Needle |
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| 1964 | Ford Introduces the Mustang |
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| Columbus, Ohio's Geraldine Fredritz "Jerrie" Mock Is the First Woman to Fly Solo Around the World |
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| 1965 | In St Paul, Minnesota, the Mississippi River Crests Nearly 10' Above Flood Stage Creating $88M in Damages Across the State |
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| 1967 | U.S. Launches Surveyor 3 for Soft Lunar Landing |
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| 1969 | Alexander Dubcek Is Deposed as Czechoslovakia's Leader |
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| Sirhan Sirhan Is Convicted of the 1968 Murder of Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California |
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| 21-year-old Bernadette Devlin Is Elected as the Youngest Woman to Serve in the British Parliament |
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| The Legal Voting Age in Great Britain Is Lowered from 21 to 18 |
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| Boeing Wins the Design Contract for the AWACS Airborne Surveillance Command Plane |
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| 1970 | Apollo 13 Returns Safely to Earth |
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| Johnny Cash Sings "Boy Named Sue" for President Nixon at the White House |
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| 1972 | Women Are Officially Included in the Boston Marathon for the First Time |
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| 1975 | Pol Pot & Khmer Rouge Take Control of Cambodia |
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| 1976 | Helios 2 Satellite Approaches within 28M Miles of the Sun |
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| 1980 | Formal Ceremony Makes Rhodesia Independent from Great Britain: Name Changed to Zimbabwe |
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| 1982 | The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Is Placed into Effect |
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| 1983 | Warsaw Police Rout Solidarity Supporters Commemorating 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising |
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| India SLV-3 Rocket Places Experimental Research Satellite into Orbit |
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| 1984 | 10 Are Wounded and a Policewoman Is Killed by Gunshots Fired from the Libyan Embassy in London |
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| 1986 | British Journalist Kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon and Held Hostage for Five Years |
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| 1987 | The Knobbed Whelk Is Adopted as Georgia's Official State Seashell |
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| 1991 | Dow Industrial Average Closes Above 3,000 for the First Time |
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| U.S. Railroad Workers Go Out on a One-Day Strike |
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| 1998 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-90) Neurolab with 2000 Animals Aboard |
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| 1999 | Bomb Blast Injures 45 in London |
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