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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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Bahá'í: Festival of Ridván
(sunset 4/20 - sunset 5/2: Baha'u'llah's 12 days of revelations of Bab) |
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May Day
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China, Slovenia, Russia, Ukraine, Yugoslavia: International Labor Day
(May 1-2) |
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Marshall Islands: Constitution Day
(Observed annually on May 1) |
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United States: Law Day
(Established as an annual May 1 observance by 1958 Presidential Proclamation) |
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United States: Loyalty Day
(Established by 2003 Presidential Proclamation) |
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Hawaii: Lei Day
(Observed on May 1 since 1927) |
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1902 | Louisa Shotwell (Chicago-born Children's Author) |
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1917 | Elizabeth Marie Pope (Washington, D.C.-born Children's Author) |
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1940 | Bobbie Ann Mason (Kentucky-born Children's Author) |
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1672 | Joseph Addison (English Essayist, Poet and Dramatist) |
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1829 | Jose Alencar (Brazilian Journalist, Novelist and Playwright) |
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1881 | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French Philosopher) |
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1892 | Charles Shaw (New York City-born Author) |
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1901 | Sterling A. Brown (Washington, D.C.-born African-American Poet) |
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1908 | Niccolň Tucci (Italian Author) |
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Giovanni Guareschi (Italian Journalist, Humorist, Novelist) |
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1923 | Joseph Heller (New York City-born Author of Catch 22) |
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1924 | Terry Southern (Texas-born Novelist and Screenwriter) |
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1939 | Max Robinson (Virginia-born African-American Broadcast Journalist) |
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1855 | Cecilia Beaux (Pennsylvania-born Portrait Painter, Graphic Artist) |
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1864 | Benjamin Henry Latrobe (English-American Architect of the U.S. Capitol and the White House) |
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1895 | Leo Sowerby (Michigan-born Organist, Composer) |
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1925 | Scott Carpenter (Colorado-born Member of the First Seven Astronauts Selected by NASA) |
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1762 | James Durham (Pennsylvania-born Physician) |
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1825 | Johann Jakob Balmer (Swiss Physicist) |
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1924 | Evelyn Boyd Granville (Washington, D.C.-born African-American Mathematician and Educator) |
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1898 | Eugene Black (Georgia-born Financier; President of the World Bank: 1949-62) |
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1769 | Arthur Wellsley, Duke of Wellington (British Military Leader Who Defeated Napoleon at Waterloo) |
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1887 | Alan G. Cunningham (British Commander Who Liberated Ethiopia From Italian Occupation) |
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1896 | Mark Clark (New York-born U.S. Army General, World War II and the Korean War) |
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1827 | John Bascom (New York-born President of the University of Wisconsin) |
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1780 | John McKinley (Virginia-born Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
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1816 | Henry Massie Rector (Kentucky-born 6th Governor of Arkansas) |
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1830 | Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (Irish-American Labor Leader) |
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1881 | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French Theologian, Philosopher, and Paleontologist) |
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1903 | Melvin Thompson (Governor of Georgia) |
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1912 | Winthrop Rockefeller (New York City-born Philanthropist and Governor of Arkansas: 1967-71) |
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1852 | Calamity Jane (Missouri Sharpshooter and Wild West Entertainer) |
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1909 | Kate Smith (Virginia-born Singer and Radio Celebrity; First Person to Publicly Sing "God Bless America") |
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1916 | Glenn Ford (Canadian Actor) |
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1918 | Jack Paar (Ohio-born Host of Television's Tonight Show) |
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1924 | Mabel "Big Maybelle" Smith (Tennessee-born African-American Jazz Singer) |
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1930 | Little Walter (Louisiana-born African-American Blues Singer and Harmonica Player) |
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1934 | Shirley Horn (Washington, D.C.-born African-American Jazz Pianist and Singer) |
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1939 | Judy Collins (Washington-born Folk Singer) |
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1945 | Rita Coolidge (Tennessee-born Popular Singer) |
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1967 | Tim McGraw (Louisiana-born Country Singer) |
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1915 | Archie Williams (California-born African-American Olympic 400m Track and Field Gold Medalist) |
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1925 | Chuck Bednarik (Pennsylvania-born Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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1930 | Ollie Matson (Texas-born African-American Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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1960 | Steve Cauthen (Kentucky-born Horse Racing Jockey) |
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1566 | Pius V (Italian-born Catholic Pope) |
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1700 | John Dryden (English Poet) |
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1863 | Edward Dorr Tracy (Georgia-born Confederate General Killed in the Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi) |
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1873 | David Livingstone (Scottish Missionary and African Explorer) |
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1904 | Antonin Dvorák (Czech Composer) |
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1989 | David Webster (South African Anti-Apartheid Activist; Assassinated) |
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1994 | Ayrton Senna (Brazilian Race Driver Killed at the San Marino Grand Prix) |
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1998 | Eldrige Cleaver (Arkansas-born Leader of the Black Panther Party; Author of Soul on Ice) |
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1515 | England's King Henry VIII and Queen Catherine Celebrate May Day |
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1562 | French Huguenots Land in Florida Seeking to Establish a Colony for French Religious Dissenters |
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1707 | Acts of Union Unite England, Wales & Scotland to Form the United Kingdom |
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1718 | Mission, Precursor of the Alamo, Founded at San Antonio, Texas |
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1784 | Columbia University Is Chartered |
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1786 | Mozart's Marriage of Figaro Premiers at Vienna's Old Burgtheater |
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1794 | Shoemakers Organize the First U.S. Labor Union Philadelphia as the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers |
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1806 |
![]() Clark: This morning we collected our horses and made an early Start, haveing preveously Sent a hed 4 hunters with derections to proceed up the Creek and kill every Species of game which they might meet with. the Small portion of rain which fell last night Caused the road to be much furmer and better than yesterday.
the morning Cloudy and Cool. we proceeded up the Creek on the N. E. Side through a Countrey of less sand and at the distance of nine miles we over took our hunters, they had killed one bever only at this place the road forked, one leaveing the Creek and the Corse of it is nearly North. the Chopunnish who had accompanied us with his family informed us that this was our best way. that it was a long distance without water. and advised us to Camp on the Creek at this place and in the morning to Set out early. This information perplexed us a little, in as much as the idea of going a days march without water thro an open sandy plain and on a Course 50° out of our derection. we deturmined to unlode and wate for our Guide, or the Chopunnish man who had accompanied us from the long Narrows, who was in the rear with Drewyer our interpreter. on his arrival we enquired of him which was the best and most direct roade for us to take. he informed us that the road pointed out by his cumerade was through a open hilly and Sandy Countrey to the river Lewis's River, and was a long ways around, and that we Could not git to any water to day. the other roade up the creek was a more derect Course, plenty of water wood and only one hill in the whole distance and the road which he had always recommended to us. Some words took place between those two men the latter appeared in great pation Mounted his horse and Set out up the Creek. we Sent a man after him and brought him back informed him that we believed what he Said and Should imedeately after dinner proceed on the road up the Creek with him. we gave the former man Some powder and ball which had been promised him, and after an early dinner Set out up the Creek with our guide leaveing the Chopunnish man and his family encamped at the forks of the road where they intended to Stay untill the morning and proceed on the rout he had recommended to us. we traviled 17 miles this evening makeing a total of 26 mls. and encamped.
the first 3 miles of our afternoons march was through a Simaler Country of that of the fore noon; the Creek bottoms then became higher and wider; to the extent of from 2 to 3 miles. we Saw Several Deer of which Labiech killed one.
The Courses & distances of this day are N. 45° E. 9 mls. & N. 75° E. 17 Miles allong the North Side of this Creek to our encampment. Sometime after we had encamped three young men arrived from the Wallah wallah Village bringing with them a Steel trap belonging to one of our party which had been negligently left behind; this is an act of integrity rearly witnessed among Indians. dureing our Stay with them they Several times found the knives of the men which had been Carefully lossed by them and returned them. I think we can justly affirm to the honor of those people that they |
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1810 | Macon's Bill No. 2 Lifts Restrictions on U.S. Trade with England and France |
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1813 | The Indiana State Capitol Is Moved from Vincennes to Corydon |
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1820 | Phillips County, Arkansas Is Created |
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1837 | Pennsylvania's John Catron Is Sworn in as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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1839 | Iowa City Is Selected as the Capital of the Iowa Territory |
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1840 | The Ohio Institution for the Blind Hires Its First Superintendent |
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1851 | The First World's Fair Opens in London at the Crystal Palace |
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1861 | The 1st Michigan Infantry Is Mustered into Service at Detroit |
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1862 | Confederate General James J. Pettigrew of North Carolina Is Captured Near Richmond, Virginia and Sent to Fort Delaware |
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1863 | Hooker and Lee Begin 4-day Battle Near Chancellorsville, Virginia |
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President Lincoln Writes the Governor of Pennsylvania His State is Safe from Attack |
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The Confederate Congress Adopts a Second National Flag to Replace the Stars and Bars |
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1864 | U.S.S. Fox Captures the Confederate Sloop Oscar Along Florida's Gulf Coast |
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1865 | Writing in a Letter From New York City, Actor Edwin Booth Agonizes over His Brother's Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln |
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1869 | "Folies-Bergere" Opens in Paris |
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1874 | Residents of Seattle, Washington Begin Building Their Own Railroad |
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1884 | Moses Fleetwood Walker Is the First African American to Play in a Professional Baseball Game |
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1886 | Coordinated Strikes and Demonstrations Across the Nation Demand 8-Hour Day for Industrial Workers |
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100,000 Turn Out to Greet the Visit of Former Confederate President Jefferson Davis to Atlanta |
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1888 | U.S. Patent #382,280 Is Granted to Nikola Tesla for the "Electrical Transmission of Power" |
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1889 | Hard Rock Phosphate Deposits Are Discovered in Marion County, Florida |
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1893 | World Columbian Exposition Opens in Chicago |
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1896 | In Minnesota, Three-Quarters of Red Lake Indian Reservation Land Is Opened to White Settlement |
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1898 | Dewey Commands, "You may fire when ready, Gridley!" |
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U.S. Ships Destroy Spain's Pacific Fleet in the Battle of Manila Bay |
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First Washington Volunteer Infantry Regiment Musters for the Spanish-American War |
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The Panhandle Community of Mobeetie, Texas Is Devastated by a Cyclone |
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Sunset Magazine Is First Published by the Southern Pacific Railroad to Promote Travel to the American West |
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1901 | Pan-American Exposition Opens in Buffalo |
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1902 | Construction Begins on the Janesville, Wisconsin Library |
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1921 | Radio Signals Are First Used to Guide Ships into New York Harbor |
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1926 | Sinclair Lewis Declines the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel Arrowsmith, Saying Awards Inhibit Creativity and Make Writers Lazy |
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1928 | Pitcairn Aviation Begins Regular Air Mail Flights Between Atlanta to New York |
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1929 | 7.4 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 3,300 in Iran |
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1931 | President Hoover Officially Opens the Empire State Building |
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1933 | The Minnesota Legislature Passes an Emergency Law Stopping Farm Foreclosure Sales |
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1936 | Seattle Teachers' Credit Union Is Chartered |
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1939 | Batman First Appears in Detective Comic Books |
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1940 | Opera Singer Eleanor Steber Performs in Her Hometown of Wheeling, West Virginia |
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1941 | President Roosevelt Purchases First Series E Savings Bond |
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Wisconsin's Governor Signs a Bill Requiring Military Training for All Able-Bodied University of Wisconsin Freshman and Sophomore Male Students |
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Orson Welles' Citizen Kane Debuts at RKO Palace in New York City |
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1944 | The First German Prisoners of War (POWs), Many from Rommel's Afrika Korps, Arrived at Fort du Pont (Delaware City) |
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1945 | Germany Announces That Hitler Is Dead |
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1946 | First African-American Named U.S. Mother of the Year |
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1948 | The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) Is Proclaimed |
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1951 | Minnie Minoso Is the First African-American Player for the Chicago White Sox |
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1953 | Divinity Student Is First African American Admitted to Vanderbilt University |
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1954 | In Wisconsin, the Milton House Museum Opens |
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1957 | The Town, a Novel by William Faulkner, Is Published by Random House |
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1958 | President Eisenhower Proclaims May 1 as Law Day |
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In New Mexico, the Secretly Established White Sands Proving Grounds Officially Becomes White Sands Missile Range |
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1960 | Soviets Shoot Down Unarmed U.S. U-2 Reconnaissance Plane |
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The Indian State of Bombay Is Split Into the States of Gujarat & Maharashtra |
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1961 | Castro Bans Elections in Socialist Cuba |
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Harper Lee Receives the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for To Kill a Mockingbird |
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1961 | President John F Kennedy Signs the Area Redevelopment Act |
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1962 | President John F Kennedy Signs the Educational Television Act |
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1963 | James Whittaker of Redmond, Washington, Is the First American to Climb Mt. Everest |
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1964 | The First BASIC Programs Are Run on a Computer |
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1965 | USSR Launches Luna 5 For Lunar Impact Landing |
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1967 | Anastasio Somoza Debayle Becomes President of Nicaragua |
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6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 9 and Injures 56 in the Arta Province of Greece |
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Elvis Presley Marries 21-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu |
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1970 | Seattle, Washington Marchers Protest Expansion of War into Cambodia, Killings at Kent State |
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1971 | Amtrak Begins Operation |
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1973 | 1.6 Million British Workers Strike in Protest of Government's Pay and Price Policies |
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1975 | U.S. Postal Service Issues Stamp Honoring African-American Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar |
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1978 | Seattle City Council Limits the Use of Deadly Force by Police Officers |
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1979 | Marshall Islands Become Self-governing |
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South Africa's Parliament Tables the First Report of the Wiehahn Commission |
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1980 | Dallas Mavericks Officially Become the 23rd Member of the National Basketball Association |
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1981 | Governor Pierre du Pont Signs the Financial Center Development Act, Transforming Wilmington, Delaware into a Major U.S. Banking Center |
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1982 | British Planes Attack Two Airstrips on the Falkland Islands |
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Kennesaw, Georgia Law Requires Each Household to Keep a Firearm and Ammunition |
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1985 | Raymond Carver's Book, Where Water Comes Together with Other Water, Is Published by Random House |
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1986 | World Continues to Assess the Damage of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident |
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1987 | Pope John Paul II Beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite Nun Murdered by Nazis at Auschwitz. |
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1989 | South African Anti-Apartheid Activist Is Assassinated |
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1991 | 44-Year-Old Nolan Ryan Throws a Record Seventh No-Hitter |
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1997 | After 18 Years of Conservative Rule, Britain's Labour Party Returns to Power |
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1999 | Mercury Space Capsule Liberty Bell 7 Is Found in the Atlantic Ocean, 38 Years After It Sank |
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2001 | Klansman Convicted of 1963 Bombing of 16th St. Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama |
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2006 | Over a Million Demonstrate Across America in Support of Legalizing Undocumented Immigrant Workers |
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