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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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World Intellectual Property Rights Day
(Observed annually on this date since 2000) |
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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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Tanzania: Union Day
(Commemorates unification of Tanganyika and Zanzibar to form United Republic of Tanzania: 04/26/1964) |
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Florida & Georgia: Confederate Memorial Day
(Commemorates the end of the Civil War for Georgia on this day in 1865) |
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1935 | Patricia Reilly Giff (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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1834 | Artemus Ward (Maine-born Humorist) |
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1893 | Anita Loos (California-born Novelist, Screenwriter) |
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1897 | Cass Canfield (New York City-born Publisher and Editor) |
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1898 | Vicente Aleixandre (Spanish Poet) |
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1903 | Anne Fried (Austrian Writer) |
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1914 | Bernard Malamud (New York City-born Author: Awarded 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) |
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1916 | Morris West (Australian Novelist) |
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1930 | Bruce Jay Friedman (New York-born Novelist) |
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1812 | Friedrich Flotow (German-born French Composer) |
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1798 | Eugene Delacroix (French Painter) |
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1785 | John James Audubon (Haitian-born Artist and Naturalist) |
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1822 | Frederick Law Olmsted (Connecticut-born Landscape Architect; Designed Central Park in New York City) |
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1917 | I.M. Pei (Chinese-American Architect) |
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1900 | Charles Richter (Ohio-born Seismologist: Founder of the Richter Scale) |
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1812 | Alfred Krupp (German Industrialist; Developed and Sold Armaments) |
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1868 | Harold Rothermere (English Publishing/Media Mogul) |
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1826 | Ambrose Ransom "Ranse" Wright (Georgia-born Confederate General) |
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1711 | David Hume (English Philosopher, Historian) |
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1886 | William Dawson (Georgia-born Illinois Congressman: First African American to Chair a U.S. Congressional Committee) |
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1889 | Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austrian-born British Philosopher) |
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1896 | Edward J. Thye (South Dakota-born 26th Governor of Minnesota) |
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1952 | Popo Simon Molefe (Premier of South Africa's North West Province: 1994-2004) |
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1894 | Rudolph Hess (German Nazi Deputy to Adolph Hitler) |
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1886 | Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (Georgia-born African-American Blues Singer) |
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1915 | Johnny Shines (Tennessee-born African-American Blues Guitarist) |
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1926 | Irving Davies (Welsh-born British Dancer, Choreographer) |
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1933 | Carol Burnett (Texas-born Comedian, Actress) |
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1938 | Duane Eddy (New York-born Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) |
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1942 | Bobby Rydell (Pennsylvania-born Popular Singer) |
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1948 | Stevie Nicks (Arizona-born Member of Fleetwood Mac) |
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1917 | Sal "The Barber" Maglie (New York-born Major League Baseball Pitcher) |
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1865 | John Wilkes Booth (Maryland-born Actor, Assassin of President Abraham Lincoln) |
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1901 | Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum (Hanged in Clayton, New Mexico for Committing a Train Robbery) |
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1968 | PFC Milton Lee (Texas-born Soldier Who Earned the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam) |
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1973 | Irene Ryan (Texas-born Actress: Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies) |
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1984 | Count Basie (New Jersey-born African-American Orchestra Leader and Composer) |
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1989 | Lucille Ball (New York-born Comedian, Actress: Star of I Love Lucy) |
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1998 | Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera (Guatemalan Human Rights Activist, Beaten to Death) |
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2000 | David Merrick (Missouri-born Broadway Producer, Director) |
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1564 | William Shakespeare Is Baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, England |
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1607 | 104 English Colonists Land at Cape Henry, Virginia |
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1679 | Construction Is Completed on South Africa's Castle of Good Hope |
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1778 | British-Mandated Census Indicates Detroit's Population Is 2,144 People |
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1805 |
![]() Lewis: This morning I dispatched Joseph Fields up the yellowstone river with orders to examine it as far as he could conveniently and return the same evening; two others were directed to bring in the meat we had killed last evening, while I proceeded down the river with one man [probably Drouillard] in order to take a view of the confluence of this great river with the Missouri, which we found to be two miles distant on a direct line N. W. from our encampment.
the bottom land on the lower side of the yellowstone river near it's mouth for about one mile in width appears to be subject to inundation; while that on the opposite side of the Missouri and the point formed by the junction of these the timber consists principally of Cottonwood, with some small elm, ash and boxalder. the under growth on the sandbars and verge of the river is the small leafed willow; the low bottoms, rose bushes which rise to three or four feet high, the redburry, servicebury, and the redwood; the high bottoms are of two discriptions either timbered or open; the first lies next to the river and it's under brush is the same with that of the low timbered bottoms with the addition of the broaf leafed willow,
Goosbury, choke cherry, purple currant; and honeysuckle bushis; the open bottoms border on the hills, and are covered in many parts by the wild hyssop which rises to the hight of two feet. I observe that the Antelope, Buffaloe Elk and deer feed on this herb; the willow of the sandbars also furnish a favorite winter food to these anamals as well as about 12 Olock I heard the discharge of several guns at the junction of the rivers, which announced to me the arrival of the paty with Capt Clark; I afterwards learnt that they had fired on some buffaloe which they met with at that place, and of which they killed a cow and several Calves; the latter are now fine veal. I dispatched one of the men to Capt Clark requesting him to send up a canoe to take down the meat we had killed and our baggage to his encampmt, which was accordingly complyed with. after I had completed my observations in the evening I walked down and joined the party at their encampment on the point of land fromed by the junction of the rivers; found them all in good health, and much pleased at having arrived at this long wished for spot, and in order to add in some measure to the general pleasure which seemed to pervade our little community, we ordered a dram to be issued to each person; this soon produced the fiddle, and they spent the evening with much hilarity, singing & dancing, and seemed as perfectly to forget their past toils, as they appeared regardless of those to come. in the evening, the man I had sent up the river this morning returned, and reported that he had ascended it about eight miles on a streight line; that he found it crooked, meandering from side to side of the valley formed by it; which is from four to five miles wide. the corrent of the river gentle, and it's bed much interrupted and broken by sandbars; at the distance of five miles he passed a large Island well covered with timber, and three miles higher a large creek falls in on the S. E. side above a high bluff in which there are several stratas of coal. the country bordering on this river as far as he could percieve, like that of the Missouri, consisted of open plains. he saw several of the bighorned animals in the couse of his walk; but there were so shy that he could not get a shoot at them; he found a large horn of one of these anamals which he brought with him. the bed of the yellowstone river is entirely composed of sand and mud, not a stone of any kind to be seen in it near it's entrance. Capt Clark measured these rivers just above their confluence; found the bed of the Missouri 520 yards wide, the water occupying 330. it's channel deep. the yellowstone river including it's sandbar, 858 yds, of which, the water occupyed 297 yards; the depest part 12 feet; it was falling at this time & appeard to be nearly at it's summer tide.— the Indians inform that the yellowstone river is navigable for perogues than half a day's march of a navigable part of the Missouri. it's extreem sources are adjacent to those of the Missouri, river platte, and I think probably with some of the South branch of the Columbia river [Most of this would be from Indian information. The Yellowstone, the Gallatin and Madison forks of the Missouri, and the Snake, the greatest tributary of the Columbia, do all rise on the Yellowstone Plateau of northwest Wyoming, the closest actual approximation to the pyramidal height of land of pre-Lewis and Clark conjectural geography. The sources of the North and South Platte are in the Colorado Rockies.]
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1806 |
![]() Lewis: This morning early we set forward and at the distance of three miles entered a low level plain country of great extent. here the river hills are low and receede a great distance from the river this low country commence on the S. side of the river about 10 miles below our encampment of last evening. these plains are covered with a variety of herbatious plants, grass, and three speceis of shrubs specimines of which I have preserved at the distance of twelve miles we halted near a few willows which afforded us a sufficient quantity of fuel to cook our dinner which consisted of the ballance of the dogs we had purchased yesterday evening and some jirked Elk. we were overtaken today by several families of the natives who were traveling up the river with a number of horses; they continued with us much to our annoyance as the day was worm the roads dusty and we could not prevent their horses from crouding in and breaking our order of mach without using some acts of severity which we did not wish to commit. after dinner we continued our march through the level plain near the river 16 Ms. and encamped about a mile below three lodges of the Wollah wollah nation, and about 7 Ms. above our encampment of the 19 of October last. after we encamped a little Indian boy caught several chubbs with a bone which he substituted for a hook. these fish were of about 9 inches long small head large abdomen, small where the tail joined the body, the tail wide long is proportion and forked. the back and ventral fins were equadistant from the head and had each 10 bony rays, the fns next the gills nine each and that near the tail 12. the upper exceeded the under jaw, the latter is truncate at the extremity and the tonge and pallet are smooth. the colour is white on the sides and belley and a blewish brown on the back. the iris of the eye is of a silvery colour and puple black.— we covered ourselves partially this evening from the rain by means of an old tent.
Clark:
Saw a Goat and a Small wolf at a distance to day. made 28 miles
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1818 | In Florida, Andrew Jackson Sentences Two British Subjects to Death for Inciting Creek Indian Uprisings |
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1826 | The Former Jackson County Courthouse Is Dedicated as the First House of Worship in Brownstown, Indiana |
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1840 | Father Lucien Galtier Arrives in St. Peter's (Mendota), Minnesota to Organize a Catholic Church At a Location That Will Be Known As St. Paul |
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1841 | Henry Thoreau Moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson for Two Years as a Handyman |
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1854 | U.S. War Department Orders Surveys to Locate Land for Indian Reservations in Unsettled Territory |
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1856 | Settlers of Northern California and Nevada Form the New Territory of Natagua |
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1861 | Maryland Assembly Declares It Has No Constitutional Authority for Secession |
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1863 | U.S.S. Sagamore Captures the Schooner, New York, Off the Florida Tortugas |
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1864 | U.S.S. Union Captures the Schooner O.K. Attempting to Run a Blockade of Florida's Tampa Bay |
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1865 | John Wilkes Booth Is Shot and Dies in a Burning Barn |
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Joe Johnston Surrenders the Army of Tennessee at Durham, North Carolina |
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1866 | The Atlanta Ladies' Memorial Association Holds Its First Confederate Memorial Observance |
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1869 | Oregon's First Public High School Opens at Portland |
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1874 | The First Letter from "Pidge" Is Published in the Austin Statesman and State Gazette |
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1876 | Colo, Iowa Is Incorporated |
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1877 | Minnesota's Governor Declares This a Day of Prayer for Deliverance from Grasshopper Plague |
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1881 | Frederick Allen Patent's a Life Raft |
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1891 | Tchaikovsky Arrives in New York City to Participate in the Opening of Carnegie Hall |
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1892 | African-American Inventor, Sarah Boone (Connecticut), Patents an Ironing Board |
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1901 | Outlaw Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum Is Hanged in Clayton, New Mexico for Committing a Train Robbery |
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1907 | Methane Gas Explosion Kills Seven Coal Miners in Washington |
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1915 | Italy Signs the Treaty of London, Committing to Enter World War I on the Side of the Allies |
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Boston's African-American Community Protests the Showing of Birth of a Nation |
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1923 | Britain's Duke of York Marries Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (Later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) |
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1925 | Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg Is Elected President of Germany |
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William Faulkner Publishes "The Kingdom of God" in the New Orleans Times-Picayune |
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1927 | The State Legislature Incorporates Beckley, West Virginia |
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1929 | First Non-stop Flight from Britain Lands in India (4,130 mi. in 50 hr 48 min) |
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1937 | 3-hour German Bombing Raid Destroys Spain's Town of Guernica |
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1941 | Chicago Cubs Are the First to Use an Organ At a Baseball Game |
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1942 | Mine Explosion Kills 1,549 in Honkeiko Manchuria |
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1944 | Federal Government Seizes Montgomery Ward to Support Union Contract |
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1945 | Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, Head of France's Vichy World War II Government, Is Arrested |
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1954 | World Leaders Meet in Geneva to Discuss Problems in Asia |
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Nationwide Testing of Salk Polio Vaccine Begins |
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1957 | Work Is Completed on the Jim Woodruff Dam Lake Seminole Project Near Chattahoochee, Florida |
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1962 | U.S. Ranger 4 Aircraft Impacts on the Far Side of the Moon |
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NASA Launches the Ariel 1 Satellite for International Study of the Ionosphere |
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1964 | Tanganyika & Zanzibar Unite to Form Tanzania |
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1968 | PFC Milton Lee of San Antonio, Texas Earns the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam |
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Members of Ohio State's Black Student Union Seize the Campus Administration Building |
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U.S. Conducts 1 Megaton Underground Nuclear Test |
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1971 | U.S. Troop Strength in Vietnam Reduced to 281,400 |
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1972 | President Richard Nixon Announces the U.S. Is Reducing Vietnam Troop Strength to 49,000 |
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In Minnesota, anti-War Demonstrators Protest Honeywell's Production of Fragmentation Bombs |
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1984 | President Reagan Arrives in China |
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1986 | An Explosion Occurs at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine |
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5.5 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 6 in the Kashmir-India Border Region |
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1990 | 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 126 in China's Qinghai Province |
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1992 | Worshipers Celebrate the First Russian Orthodox Easter in Moscow in 74 Years |
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Jelly's Last Jam Opens on Broadway |
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1993 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-55) for German Spacelab Mission |
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1994 | First Multi-Racial Elections Are Held in South Africa (Apr 26-29) |
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1998 | Guatemalan Human Rights Activist, Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera, Is Beaten to Death |
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2000 | Vermont Is the First State to Allow Same-Sex Couples to Form Civil Unions |
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2001 | Junichiro Koizumi Is Elected Prime Minister by the Lower House of Japan's Parliament |
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2005 | Syria Pulls Its Troops Out of Lebanon After 29 Years |
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The Green Treefrog Is Officially Adopted As Georgia's State Amphibian |
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