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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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Today's 5-Minute Quest
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World Malaria Day
(First Declared at the 2000 African Summit on Malaria to be Observed Annually on April 25; Adopted in 2007 as a Global Observation by the World Health Organization) |
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The Bahá'í Faith: Festival of Ridván
(sunset 4/21 - sunset 5/2: commemorates Baha'u'llah's 1863 stay in "Garden of Ridvan" as God's messenger.) |
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Australia & New Zealand: ANZAC Day
(Commemorates the Battle of Gallipoli Peninsula: 04/25/1915) |
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Egypt: Sinai Liberation Day
(Commemorates Israel's return of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt: 1982) |
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Germany: Tag des Baumes (Tree Day)
(Observed annually on this date) |
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Italy: Liberation Day
(Commemorates Italy's liberation from 20 years of fascist dictatorship: 04/25/1945) |
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Portugal: Liberty Day
(Commemorates coup leading to a parliamentary democracy: 04/25/1974) |
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Swaziland: National Flag Day
(Commemoration of Great Britain granting Swaziland the right of self rule: 4/25/1967) |
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United States: National DNA Day
(Commemoration of the 2003 Completion of the Human Genome Project and the 1953 Discovery of DNA's Double Helix) |
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1873 | Howard Garis (New York-born Children's Author of the Uncle Wiggly Series) |
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Walter de la Mare (English Children's Author and Poet) |
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1892 | Maud Hart Lovelace (Minnesota-born Children's Author) |
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1925 | June Behrens (California-born Children's Author) |
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1927 | Alvin Schwartz (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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1933 | Larry Kettelkamp (Illinois-born Children's Author) |
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1942 | Stuart J. Murphy (Connecticut-born Children's Author of the MathStart Series) |
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1949 | George Ella Lyon (Kentucky-born Poet Children's Author) |
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1964 | Marie G. Lee (Minnesota-born Asian-American Children's Author) |
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1908 | Edward R. Murrow (North Carolina-born Broadcast Journalist) |
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1933 | Jay Anthony Lukas (New York City-born Journalist, Non-fiction Author) |
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1914 | Claude Mauriac (Paris-born Novelist, Journalist and Critic ) |
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1952 | Padgett Powell (Florida-born Novelist) |
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1961 | Dinesh D'Souza (Indian Journalist, Writer) |
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1933 | Jerry Leiber (Maryland-born Songwriter) |
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1507 | Martin Waldseemuller (German Scholar Credited with Naming America) |
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1853 | Marc Isambard Brunel (French Inventor, Engineer: Built First Underwater Tunnel) |
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1853 | John Frank Stevens (Maine-born Chief Civil Engineer of the Panama Canal) |
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1874 | Guglielmo Marconi (Italian Inventor of the Wireless Telegraph) |
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1900 | Wolfgang Pauli (Austrian Physicist, 1945 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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1215 | Saint Louis IX (King of France) |
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1284 | King Edward II of England (The First Prince of Wales) |
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1599 | Oliver Cromwell (Lord Protector of the British Commonwealth) |
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1776 | James Miller (New Hampshire-born First Governor of the Arkansas Territory: 1819 - 1825) |
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1811 | William Henry Bissell (New York-born Governor of Illinois: 1857 - 1860) |
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1906 | William Brennan (New Jersey-born U.S. Supreme Court Justice) |
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1907 | Sam Shapiro (Estonian-American Governor of Illinois: 1868 - 1869) |
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1923 | Arnold Miller (West Virginia-born President of the United Mine Workers of America from 1972 to 1979) |
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1917 | Ella Fitzgerald (Virginia-born African-American Singer) |
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1923 | Albert King (Mississippi-born African-American Jazz & Blues Musician) |
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1930 | Paul Mazursky (New York City-born Producer, Director) |
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1940 | Al Pacino (New York City-born Actor) |
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1945 | Björn Ulvaeus (Swedish Musician, Songwriter: Member of ABBA) |
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1946 | Talia Shire (New York-born Actress) |
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1964 | Hank Azaria (New York City-born Actor) |
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1969 | Renee Zellweger (Texas-born Actress) |
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1980 | Jacob Underwood (California-born Actor) |
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1884 | John Henry Lloyd (Florida-born African-American Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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1932 | Meadowlark Lemon (North Carolina-born African-American Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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1976 | Tim Duncan (U.S. Virgin islands-born African-American Professional Basketball Player) |
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1990 | Dexter Gordon (Los Angeles-born African-American Jazz Saxophonist) |
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1995 | Howard Cosell (North Carolina-born Sports Broadcaster) |
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Ginger Rogers (Missouri-born Actress, Dancer) |
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799 | Pope Saint Leo III Is Attacked, His Eyes Stabbed and His Tongue Torn |
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1616 | William Shakespeare Is Buried in the Chancel of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford |
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1719 | Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe Is Published |
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1775 | British Troops Remove 15 Half-barrels of Gunpowder from the Williamsburg, Virginia Powder Magazine |
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1781 | Cornwallis Retreats to Wilmington, North Carolina, After Being Defeated at Guilford Courthouse |
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1792 | Guillotine Is First Used for an Execution |
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1793 | Pope Pius VI Establishes the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas |
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1804 | Town of Uitenhage, South Africa Is Founded |
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1805 |
![]() Lewis: The wind was more moderate this morning, tho' still hard; we set out at an early hour. the water friezed on the oars this morning as the men rowed. about 10 oclock A. M. the wind began to blow so violently that we were obliged to lye too. my dog had been absent during the last night, and I was fearfull we had lost him altogether, however, much to my satisfaction he joined us at 8 Oclock this morning. The wind had been so unfavorable to our progress for several days past, and seeing but little prospect of a favourable chang; knowing that the river was crooked, from the report of the hunters who were out yesterday, and beleiving that we were at no very great distance from the Yellow stone River; I determined, in order as mush as possible to avoid detention, to proceed by land with a few men [four men, to include Ordway, Drouillard and Joseph Field] to the entrance of that river and make the necessary observations to determine it's position, which I hoped to effect by the time that Capt Clark could arrive with the party; accordingly I set out at 11 OCk. on the Lard. side, accompanyed by four men. we proceeded about four miles, when falling in with some buffaloe I killed a yearling calf, which was in good order; we soon cooked and made a hearty meal of a part of it, and renewed our march our rout lay along the foot of the river hills. when we had proceeded about four miles, I ascended the hills from whence I had a most pleasing view of the country, perticularly of the wide and fertile vallies formed by the missouri and the yellowstone rivers, which occasionally unmasked by the wood on their borders disclose their meanderings for many miles in their passage through these delightfull tracts of country. I could not discover the junction of the rivers immediately, they being concealed by the woods, however, sensible that it could not be distant I determined to encamp on the bank of the Yellow stone river which made it's appearance about 2 miles South of me. the whol face of the country was covered with herds of Buffaloe, Elk & Antelopes; deer are also abundant, but keep themselves more concealed in the woodland. the buffaloe Elk and Antelope are so gentle that we pass near them while feeding, without apearing to excite any alarm among them, and when we attract their attention, they frequently approach us more nearly to discover what we are, and in some instances pursue us a considerable distance apparenly with that view.— in our way to the place I had determined to encamp, we met with two large herds of buffaloe, of which we killed three cows and a calf. two of the former, wer but lean, we therefore took their tongues and a part of their marrow-bones only. I then proceeded to the place of our encampment with two of the men, taking with us the Calf and marrowbones, while the other two remained, with orders to dress the cow that was in tolerable order, and hang the meat out of the reach of the wolves, a precaution indispensible to it's safe keeping, even for a night. we encamped on the bank of the yellowstone river, 2 miles South of it's confluence with the Missouri. [The Yellowstone meets the Missouri in McKenzie County, North Dakota, a little east of the Montana state line. The actual mouth has shifted over the years.] |
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1806 |
![]() Lewis: This morning we collected our horses and set out at 9 A. M. and proceeded on 11 ms. to the Village of the Pish-quit-pahs [a band of the Yakimas, the Pisquows] of 51 mat lodges where we arrived at 2 P. M. purchased five dogs and some wood from them and took dinner. this village contains about 7 hundred souls. most of those people were in the plains at a distance from the river as we passed down last fall, they had now therefore the gratification of beholding whitemen for the first time. while here they flocked arround us in great numbers tho' treated us with much rispect.
we gave two medals of the small size to their two principal Cheifs who were pointed out to us by our Chopunnish fellow traveller and were acknowledged by the nation. we exposed a few old clothes my dirk [a long, straight-bladed knife of a type carried by Scottish highlanders] and Capt. C's swoard to barter for horses but were unsuccessfull these articles constitute at present our principal stock in trade. the Pish-quit-pahs insisted much on our remaining with them all we passed one house or reather lodge of the Metcowwees about a mile above our encampment of the 20th of October last. the Pish-quit-pahs, may be considered hunters as well as fishermen as they spend the fall and winter months in that occupation. they are generally pleasently featured of statue and well proportioned. both women and men ride extreemly well. their bridle is usually a hair rope tyed with both ends to the under jaw of the horse, and their saddle consists of a pad of dressed skin stuffed with goats hair with wooden stirups. almost all the horses which I have seen in possession of the Indians have soar backs. the Pishquitpah women for the most part dress with short shirts which reach to their knees long legings and mockersons, they also use large robes; they brade their hair as before discribed but the heads of neither male nor female of this tribe are so much flattened as the nations lower down on this river. at 4 P. M. we set out accompanyed by eighteen or twenty of their young men on horseback. we continued our rout about nine miles where finding as many willows as would answer our purposes for fuel we encamped for the evening.
the country we passed through was much as that of yesterday. the river hills are about 250 feet high and generally abrupt and craggey in many places faced with a perpendicular and solid rock. this rock is black and hard. [The hard, black rock is basalt of the middle-upper Miocene Saddle Mountains Basalt Member of the Yakima Basalt Subgroup of the Columbia River Basalt Group] leve plains extend themselves from the tops of the river hills to a great distance on either side of the river. the soil is not as fertile as about the falls, tho' it produces a low grass on which the horses it astonished me to seed the order of their horses at this season of the year when I knew that they had wintered on the dry grass of the plains and at the same time road with greater severity than is common among ourselves. I did not see a single horses which could be deemed poor and many of them were as fat as seals. their horses are generally good.
this evining after we had encamped, we traded for two horses with nearly the same articles we had offered at the
we killed six ducks in the course of the day; one of them was of a speceis which I had never before seen [The had the fiddle played at the request of the natives and some of the men danced. we passed five lodges of the Wallâh wollâhs at the distance of 4 miles above the Pishquitpahs.—
[The Shahaptian-language Walulas, or Walla Wallas, possessing numerous horses and apparently influenced by
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1825 | Survivors of Failed Sierra Leone Colony Arrive at Cape Mesurado |
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1831 | Lion of the West, a Play About Davy Crockett Opens in New York City |
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1835 | The Mexican Congress Repeals All Land Colonization Laws to Reduce the Number of Anglos Receiving Grants in New Mexico and Texas |
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1838 | Convention of Limits Settles Boundary Dispute Between U.S. and Republic of Texas |
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1851 | Placer County, California Is Incorporated |
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1854 | Walla Walla County, Washington, Is Created From a Portion of Skamania County |
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1859 | Ground Is Broken for the Suez Canal |
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1861 | 500 Federal Troops Surrender to Confederate Forces At the Texas Port of Saluria in Calhoun County |
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1862 | Union Admiral David Farragut Captures New Orleans |
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1864 | At Marks' Mills, Arkansas, Confederate Troops Capture a Union Supply Train and Massacre the African-Americans in the Party |
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President Lincoln Reviews 30,000 Troops on Their Way to Reinforce the Army of the Potomac |
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1865 | President Lincoln's Funeral Train Departs New York City After 120,000 File Past the Casket |
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Pope Pius IX Confers on Composer Franz Liszt the Title of "Abbé" |
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1866 | Mississippi Women Observe First Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers |
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1873 | Eli Janney Receives Patent for Railroad Car Coupling |
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1875 | Three Black Seminole Scouts Earn the Medal of Honor Rescuing Their Commander from Comanches |
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1884 | Seminole County Is Created by the Florida Legislature |
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1894 | 650 Persons Begin March from Seattle to Washington, D.C. to Protest Joblessness Caused by Financial Panic |
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1898 | The U.S. Declares War on Spain |
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The Iowa National Guard Is Mobilized for the Spanish-American War |
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Indiana's Governor James A. Mount Issues an Urgent Call for Volunteers for the War with Spain |
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Arkansas Is to Provide 125,000 Troops for the War with Spain |
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1901 | New York Passes First Law Requiring License Plates for Cars ($1) |
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1905 | The State of Arkansas Establishes a Reform School for Boys under 18 Years of Age |
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1912 | Alaska Steamship Alameda Rams Seattle's Colman Dock, Toppling the Dock's Clock Tower |
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1915 | Allies Launch Misguided Large-scale Invasion of the Turkish-controlled Gallipoli Peninsula |
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1921 | Dixie County Is Created by the Florida Legislature |
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1925 | Alfieri Maserati's Drives His First Car, Tipo 26, to Victory in His First Race |
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A Mother's Recompense, by Edith Wharton, Is Published |
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1926 | Toscanini Conducts Debut of Puccini's Last Opera, Turandot |
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1928 | American Morris Frank Arrives in Switzerland to Train with First Seeing Eye Dog |
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The Tamiami Trail Officially Opens Linking Tampa and Miami through the Florida Everglades |
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1935 | The Novel Pylon, by William Faulkner, Is Published |
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1944 | The United Negro College Fund Is Established by Tuskegee President F. D. Patterson |
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1945 | Representatives of 50 Countries Meet in San Francisco to Draw Up UN Charter |
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U.S. Makes Final Industrial Bombing Run Against Skoda Arms Plant in Pilsen |
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Allied and Russian Forces Completely Encircle Berlin |
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1950 | Boston Celtics Make Chuck Cooper First African American Drafted into the NBA |
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1953 | James Watson and Francis Crick Propose a Structure for DNA |
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1954 | Bell Labs Announces First Solar Battery |
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1959 | The St. Lawrence Seaway Opens to Shipping |
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Mario Andretti Makes His Racing Debut at Nazareth, Pennsylvania Motor Speedway |
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1961 | U.S. Launches Atlas Rocket to Test Mercury Spacecraft Systems |
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Ernest Hemingway Is Hospitalized at the Mayo Clinic After Two Attempts at Suicide |
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1962 | NASA Launches SA-2 Rocket to Test Effects of Release of Water on Radio Transmissions and Weather |
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1964 | William Westmoreland Is Appointed U.S. Commander in Vietnam |
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1967 | Britain Grants Right of Self Rule to Swaziland |
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Colorado Passes U.S. First Law Legalizing Abortion |
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Beatles Record " Magical Mystery Tour" at Abbey Road Studio in London |
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1971 | Soviet Soyuz 10 Returns to Earth Earlier Than Expected After Docking with Salyut 1 Space Station |
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1982 | British Marines Land in the Falkland Islands |
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1983 | Soviet Leader Andropov Writes Letter to American 5th-grader, Samantha Smith |
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1985 | Roger Miller's Big River Opens on Broadway |
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1988 | Warner Books Pays $5M for Gone with the Wind Sequel |
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1989 | 6.8 Magnitude Earthquake Near the Coast of Guerrero, Mexico Kills 3 |
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Florida Father Released 21 Years after Wrongful Murder Conviction |
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1990 | Space Shuttle Discovery Astronauts Deploy the Hubble Telescope |
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Violeta de Chamorro Is Inaugurated as the President of Nicaragua |
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1991 | The Secret Garden Premieres at the St. James Theatre, New York City |
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1992 | Islamic Forces Take Control of Afghanistan's Capital of Kabul |
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7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Injures 98 in Southwestern Humboldt County, California |
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Final Episode of Who's the Boss Airs |
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Final Episode of Growing Pains Airs |
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1996 | Georgia Declares English to be the Official Language of the State |
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1997 | Library of Congress Announces Receipt of the Ella Fitzgerald Collection |
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