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APRIL 23 |
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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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![]() William Shakespeare Born on This Date 1564 [University of Texas] |
![]() James Buchanan Born on This Date 1791 [Library of Congress] |
![]() Granville Woods Born on This Date 1856 [U.S. Dept of Energy] |
![]() Max Planck Born on This Date 1858 [European Space Agency] |
![]() Shirley Temple Born on This Date 1928 [Sunshine Photo] |
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World Book and Copyright Day
(Commemorates the deaths of William Shakespeare and Miquel de Cervantes: both 04/23/1616) |
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The Bahá'í Faith: Festival of Ridván
(Sunset 4/20 - sunset 5/2: commemorates Baha'u'llah's 1863 stay in "Garden of Ridvan" as God's messenger.) |
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Great Britain: St. George's Day
(Feast Day of St. George, Patron Saint of England) |
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Turkey: Millie Egenmenlik ve Cocuk Bayrami (National Sovereignty and Children's Day)
(Commemorates the founding of Turkish Grand National Assembly: 04/23/1920 ) |
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1565 | William Shakespeare (English Author) |
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1818 | James A. Froude (English Historian) |
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1852 | Charles Edwin Markham (Oregon-born Poet) |
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1855 | Harry Stillwell Edwards (Georgia-born Author, Journalist) |
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1884 | Edwin Conger Hill (Indiana-born Radio Journalist, Commentator) |
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1899 | Vladimir Nabokov (Russian-American Novelist) |
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Ngaio Marsh (New Zealand Mystery Novelist) |
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1925 | Art Hoppe (Hawaiian-born Journalist) |
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1926 | James Patrick (J.P.) Donleavy (New York City-born Novelist) |
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1937 | Coleman Barks (Tennessee-born Poet, Translator) |
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1942 | Barry Hannah (Mississippi-born Novelist, Short Story Writer) |
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1775 | J.M.W. Turner (English Landscape Painter) |
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1932 | Roy Halston (Iowa-born Clothing Designer) |
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1872 | Arthur Farwell (Minnesota-born Composer, Music Educator) |
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1880 | Michel Fokine (Russian Ballet Dancer, Choreographer) |
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1891 | Sergey Prokofiev (Russian Composer) |
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1924 | Sheldon Harnick (Chicago-born Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello) |
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1856 | Granville Woods (Ohio-born African-American Inventor) |
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1858 | Max Planck (German-born 1918 Nobel Laureate for Physics ) |
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1867 | Johannes Fibiger (Danish Pathologist: 1926 Nobel Laureate for Medicine or Physiology) |
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1823 | Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (Georgia-born Lawyer, Educator, Confederate General) |
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1898 | Lucius Clay (Georgia-born Military and Business Leader, Advisor to General/President Dwight Eisenhower) |
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1791 | James Buchanan (Pennsylvania-born President of the United States) |
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1812 | Frederick Whitaker (English Politician, Business Leader; Prime Minister of New Zealand: 1863-64, 1882-83) |
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1813 | Stephen A. Douglas (Vermont-born U.S. Senator and Candidate for President of the United States v. Abraham Lincoln) |
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1897 | Lester B. Pearson (Prime Minister of Canada: 1963-1968) |
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1947 | Bernadette Devlin (Northern Ireland Political Activist, Member of the British Parliament) |
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1895 | Jimmie Noone (Louisiana-born African-American Jazz Musician) |
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1928 | Shirley Temple Black (California-born Actress, Diplomat) |
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1936 | Roy Orbison (Texas-born Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) |
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1941 | Lee Majors (Michigan-born Actor) |
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1944 | Sandra Dee (New Jersey-born Actress) |
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1949 | Joyce DeWitt (West Virginia-born Actress) |
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1957 | Jan Hooks (Georgia-born Actress) |
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1960 | Valerie Bertinelli (Delaware-born Actress) |
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1961 | George Lopez (California-born Latin-American Comedic Actor) |
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1976 | Gabriel Damon (Nevada-born Actor) |
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1881 | Claude Carter (South African Cricket Player) |
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1916 | Bud Wilkinson (Minnesota-born Football Coach: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame) |
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1921 | Warren Spahn (New York-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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1616 | Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish Author) |
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William Shakespeare (English Author) |
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1850 | William Wordsworth (English Poet) |
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1915 | Rupert Brooke (English Poet) |
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1984 | William "Red" Garland (Texas-born African-American Jazz Pianist) |
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1985 | Sam Ervin (North Carolina-born U.S. Senator) |
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1986 | Otto Preminger (Austrian-American Film Director) |
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1993 | César Chávez (Arizona-born Latin-American Farm Labor Leader) |
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1998 | James Earl Ray (Illinois-born Convicted Assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) |
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2007 | Boris Yeltsin (Russia's First Elected President) |
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1014 | King Brian of Ireland Is Murdered by Vikings |
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1348 | The Highest British Knighthood, Order of the Garter, Is Created |
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1445 | England's Henry VI Marries Margaret of Anjou |
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1509 | Henry VIII Is Proclaimed King of England |
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1541 | Francisco Vazquez de Coronado Sets Out From Bernalillo County, New Mexico to Search for the Golden Cities of Cibola |
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1635 | The Boston Latin School Is Founded As the First Public School in America |
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1661 | Charles II Is Crowned King of England |
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1752 | Ending Two Decades as a Trustee Colony, Georgia Is Made a Royal Colony Operated by the British Government |
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1778 | John Paul Jones Burns Down an English Fort, Beginning the Only American Attack on England and Scotland |
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1789 | Large Crowds Greet George Washington as He Arrives in New York City to Begin His Service as First President of the United States |
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1800 | U.S. Congress Establishes the Natchez Trace Post Route Between Nashville, Tennessee and Natchez, Mississippi |
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1806 |
![]() Lewis: At day light this morning we were informed that the two horses of our Interpreter Charbono were absent; on enquiry it appeared that he had neglected to confine them to picquts as had been directed last evening. we immediately dispatched Reubin Feilds and Labuish to assist Charbono in recovering his horses. one of them was found at no great distance and the other was given over as lost. at 8 A. M. Reuben Feilds and Sergt. Gass proceeded in the canoe. at 10 Labuish and Charbono returned unsuccessfull, they had gone back on the road nearly to the last village and suched the plains on either hand to a considerable distance. our remaining longer would have prevented our making a timely stage which in our situation is all important; we therefore determined to proceed immediately to the next village which from the information of our guide will occupy the greater part of the day to reach at eleven OCk. we loaded our horses and set out. during the time we were detained this morning we had two packsaddles made. we continued our march along a narrow rocky bottom on the N. side of the river about 12 miles to the Wah-how-pum Village of 12 temperary mat lodges near the Rock rapid. these people appeared much pleased to see us, sold us 4 dogs and some wood for our small articles which we had previously prepared as our only resource to obtain fuel and food through those plains. these articles conisted of pewter buttons, strips of tin iron and brass, twisted wire &c. we also obtained some shap-le-lell newly made from these people. here we met with a Chopunnish man on his return up the river with his family and about 13 head of horses most of them young and unbroken. he offered to hire us some of them to pack as far a his nation, but we prefer bying as by hireing his horses we shal have the whole of his family most probably to mentain. at a little distance below this village we passed five lodges of the same people who like those were waiting the arrival of the salmon. after we had arranged our camp we caused all the old and brave men to set arround and smoke with us. we had the violin played and some of the men danced; after which the natives entertained us with a dance after their method. this dance differed from any I have yet seen. they formed a circle and all sung as well the spectators as the dancers who performed within the circle. these placed their sholders together with their robes tightly drawn about them and danced in a line from side to side, several parties of from 4 to seven will be performing within the circle at the same time. the whole concluded with a premiscuous dance in which most of them sung and danced. these people speak a language very similar to the Chopunnish whome they also resemble in their dress their women wear long legings mockersons shirts and robes. their men also dress with legings shirts robes and mockersons. after the dance was ended the indians retired at our request and we retired to rest. we had all our horses side hubbled and turned out to graize; at this village, a large creek falls in on the N. side which we did not observe as we decended the river. the river is by no means as rapid as when we decended or at least not obstructed with those dangerous rapids the water at present covers most of the rocks in the bed of the river. the natives promised to barter their horses with us in the morning we therefore entertained a hope that we shall be enabled to proceede by land from hence with the whole of our party and baggage. came 12 miles by land. the sands made the march fatieguing.—
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1823 | Ralph Waldo Emerson Writes President Van Buren Denouncing Removal of Cherokee Indians from Their Eastern Lands |
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1831 | The Pontchartrain Railroad, Begins Service Out of New Orleans as the First Railroad West of the Alleghenies |
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1838 | Two Steamships Arrive in New York City from Ireland and England, Completing the First Atlantic Crossings by Steam |
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1857 | Samuel Medary Takes Office as Minnesota's Third and Final Territorial Governor |
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1859 | Denver, Colorado's First Newspaper Is Published |
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1863 | U.S.S. Tioga Seizes the British Sloop Justina Bound From Florida to Nassau with a Cargo of Salt |
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1864 | President Lincoln Accepts Offer for an Additional 85,000 Troops from Governors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin |
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1867 | William Lincoln of Providence, Rhode Island, Patents the Zoetrope Projector |
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1869 | The Alaska Times, Begins Publication in Sitka, as the First Newspaper Printed in Alaska |
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1876 | In Oregon, the Portland Cricket Club Plays Its Opening Match of the Season |
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1881 | In Minnesota, Belgian Colonists Arrive at Grandview in Lyon County and the Village Is Renamed Ghent in Their Honor |
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1889 | Mordicai Levi of Charleston, West Virginia, Is Granted a Patent for the Process for Production of Pavement Bricks |
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1892 | The Fort Worth Public Library Association Is Chartered by the State of Texas |
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1896 | The Vitascope System for Projecting Movies onto a Screen Is Demonstrated in New York City |
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1897 | Gillette State Hospital for Crippled Children in St. Paul, Minnesota Is the First State-Funded Hospital of Its Kind in the Nation |
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1904 | W.E.B. DuBois Lectures at Harvard on "The Race Question" |
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1908 | President Theodore Roosevelt Signs Act Creating the U.S. Army Reserve |
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1911 | Bob Burman Sets a Land Speed Record at Daytona Beach, Florida Covering One Mile in 25.4 Seconds. Driving a 200 HP "Blitzen" Benz |
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1914 | Suquamish Is Launched as the First Diesel-Powered Ship Built on Washington's Puget Sound |
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1915 | English Poet Rupert Brooke Dies in Greece |
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1921 | The Florida Legislature Creates Hardee, Charlotte, Glades and Highlands Counties |
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1926 | Here and Beyond by Edith Wharton Is Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York |
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1940 | Approximately 200 People Die in a Natchez, Mississippi Dance Hall Fire |
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In Madison, Wisconsin, Ray-o-Vac Engineer Herman Anthony Patents the "Leak Proof" Battery |
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1942 | German Bombing Raids Target British Landmarks |
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1945 | President Truman Meets Soviet Minister Vyacheslav Molotov |
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1949 | Chinese Communist Forces Capture Nanjing |
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1951 | In Farmville, Virginia, 117 African-American Students Begin a 10-Day Strike to Protest Poor Conditions in Their Segregated High School |
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James Michener's Return to Paradise Is Published in New York by Random House |
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1954 | Hank Aaron Hits His First Major League Home Run |
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1956 | Elvis Makes an Unsuccessful Debut in Las Vegas |
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1962 | NASA Launches Ranger 4 Satellite for Lunar Exploration |
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1963 | William Moore, a White Postal Worker, Is Shot and Killed as He Begins a One-Man Civil Rights March from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi |
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1964 | James Baldwin's Blues for Mr. Charlie Opens on Broadway |
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The Movie My Fair Lady Is Copyrighted |
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1967 | Soviet Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov Is Killed When His Soyuz I Parachute Fails to Deploy During Landing |
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1968 | The United Methodist Church Is Formed by Merger of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church |
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British Begin Using Decimal Coins |
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1969 | Sirhan Sirhan Is Sentenced to Death for the Assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy |
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1975 | President Ford Refuses Additional Aid as North Vietnamese Close on Saigon, Saying U.S. Is Finished in Vietnam |
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1984 | Scientist Finds Aids Virus |
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1985 | Coca-Cola Changes Its Formula and Offers "New" Coke |
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1987 | Chrysler Announces Pending Purchase of Lamborghini |
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1988 | Greek Cycling Champ Pedals MIT Aircraft over Aegean Sea for 4 hrs. |
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1992 | Governor Arne H. Carlson Signs MinnesotaCare into Law, Providing Medical Insurance for Low-Income Minnesotans |
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McDonald's Opens Its First Fast-Food Restaurant in the Chinese Capital of Beijing |
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2003 | U.S. Postal Service Releases César Chávez Stamp in the Los Angeles Area |
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