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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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  Use all of these letters to spell the name a children's author born on this date:
TY SMILE BET |
Use all of these letters to spell the name of a horse that competed in the 1925 Kentucky Derby:
IRAQ TUNA |
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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 a novel by Juan Rulfo (according to Lewis and Clark College):
PRO POE DRAMA |
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 Buddha Born on This Date 563 B.C. [Lucid Cafe]
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 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Born on This Date 1804 [Britannica]
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 Margret Rey Born on This Date 1906 [Houghton Mifflin]
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 Juan Rulfo Born on This Date 1918 [La Universidad Católica Santa María la Antigua ]  |
 Johannes Georg Bednorz Born on This Date 1950 [Nobel Foundation]
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Ireland: St. Brendan the Navigator's Day
(Feast day of St. Brendan, patron saint of sailors; said to have died on this date in 578) |
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| 1906 | Margret Rey (German Author of the Curious George Books) |
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| 1919 | Daniel S. Halacy (South Carolina-born Author of Science Books for Children) |
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| 1928 | Betty Miles (Chicago-born Children's Author) |
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| 1944 | Caroline Arnold (Minnesota-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1949 | Deborah Nourse Lattimore (American Children's Author) |
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| 1950 | Bruce Coville (New York-born Children's Author) |
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| 1882 | Anne O'Hare McCormick (English-American Journalist; First Woman to Receive a Pulitzer Prize) |
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| 1886 | Douglas Southall Freeman (Virginia-born Journalist, Historian, Biographer) |
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| 1894 | Walter Yust (Pennsylvania-born Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica: 1938-1960) |
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| 1905 | H. E. (Herbert Ernest) Bates (English Novelist, Short-Story Writer) |
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| 1912 | Studs Terkel (New York City-born Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer, Broadcaster) |
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| 1918 | Juan Rulfo (Mexican Novelist, Short Story Writer) |
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| 1929 | Adrienne Rich (Maryland-born Poet) |
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| 1782 | John Sell Cotman (English Watercolorist) |
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| 1931 | Donald James Martino (New Jersey-born Composer) |
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| 1763 | Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin (French Discoverer of the Elements Chromium and Beryllium) |
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| 1831 | David Hughes (English Inventor of Teletype & Microphone) |
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| 1860 | Adolf Ossian Aschan (Finnish Organic Chemist) |
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| 1950 | Johannes Georg Bednorz (German-born 1987 Nobel Laureate for Physics ) |
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| 1641 | Dudley North (English Economist and Merchant) |
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| 1832 | Philip Armour (New York Business Leader: Meat Packing) |
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| 1804 | Edmund Kirby Smith (Florida-born Confederate General) |
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| 563 B.C. | Siddharta Gautama (Buddha) |
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| 1801 | William Henry Seward (New York-born Politician; Secretary of State in the Lincoln Administration) |
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| 1804 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (Massachusetts-born Educator; Opened First U.S. English-language Kindergarten) |
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| 1840 | James Milton Turner (Missouri-born African-American Civil Rights Leader and Diplomat) |
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| 1897 | Bolívar Pagán (Puerto Rican Lawyer, Politician, Writer) |
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| 1929 | John Conyers (Detroit-born African-American Member of the U.S. Congress) |
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| 1857 | Juan Morel Campos (Puerto Rican Musician, Composer) |
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| 1905 | Henry Fonda (Nebraska-born Actor) |
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| 1913 | Woody Herman (Wisconsin-born Jazz Clarinetist, Saxophonist, Bandleader) |
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| 1919 | Liberace (Wisconsin-born Classical, Popular Pianist) |
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| 1930 | Betty Carter (Michigan-born African-American Jazz Singer) |
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| 1931 | Jack Dodson (Pennsylvania-born Actor: Howard Sprague on The Andy Griffith Show) |
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| 1939 | Nancy Kwan (Hong Kong-born American Actress) |
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| 1953 | Pierce Brosnan (Irish Actor) |
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| 1955 | Debra Winger (Ohio-born Actress) |
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| 1959 | Mare Winningham (Arizona-born Actress) |
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| 1966 | Janet Jackson (Indiana-born African-American Popular Singer) |
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| 1968 | Tracey Gold (New York-born Actress) |
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| 1971 | David Boreanaz (New York-born Actor) |
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| 1973 | Tori Spelling (Los Angeles-born Actress) |
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| 1928 | Billy Martin (New York-born Major League Baseball Player and Manager) |
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| 1949 | Rick Reuschel (Illinois-born Major League Baseball Player) |
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| 1955 | Jack Morris (Minnesota-born Major League Baseball Player) |
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| 1956 | Olga Korbut (Belarus-born Member of the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame) |
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| 1957 | Joan Benoit Samuelson (Maine-born Distance Runner and Olympic Champion) |
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| 1970 | Gabriela Sabatini (Argentinean Member of the Tennis Hall of Fame) |
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| 578 | St. Brendan the Navigator (Irish-born Patron Saint of Sailors) |
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| 1277 | Pope John XXI (Portuguese-born Catholic Pope) |
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| 1830 | Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (French Mathematician) |
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| 1862 | Joseph Lewis Hogg (Georgia-born Confederate General) |
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| 1939 | Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke (First Black South-African Female to Graduate from an American University) |
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| 1944 | George Ade (Indiana-born Humorist) |
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| 1955 | James Agee (Tennessee-born Poet) |
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| 1965 | Wing Luke (First Asian-American Member of the Seattle, Washington City Council) |
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| 1984 | Andy Kaufman (New York City-born Comedian) |
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| Irwin Shaw (New York City-born Author) |
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| 1985 | Margaret Hamilton (Ohio-born Actress: Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz) |
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| 1990 | Jim Henson (Mississippi-born Puppeteer and Creator of the Muppets) |
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| Sammy Davis, Jr. (New York City-born African-American Singer, Dancer, Actor) |
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| 1648 | The 8th Expedition of Immigrants Arrives at the Swedish Colony in Wilmington, Delaware |
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| 1717 | Voltaire Imprisoned in Bastille for Insulting the State with His Satire |
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| 1763 | Biographer James Boswell Meets Subject, Samuel Johnson |
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| 1770 | Marie Antoinette (14) Marries Future King Louis XVI (15) |
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| 1777 | Button Gwinnett, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Is Mortally Wounded in a Duel |
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| 1778 | Indians Attack Virginia's Fort Randolph |
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| 1791 | Earthquake Is Largest in Connecticut's Recorded History |
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| 1792 | The Teatro la Fenice Opens in Venice |
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| 1804 |
 The rain has let up allowing for a fair day for the explorers to depart from Mr. Piper's Landing. After resettling the boat's load to the bow to prevent the danger of running foul of the concealed logs in the river, the journey continued smoothly. The men observed large amounts of coal before they reached St. Charles. Clark was invited to dine with some local French people who inhabited the area. |
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| 1805 |
Lewis: The morning was fair and the day proved favorable to our operations; by 4 oClock in the evening our Instruments, Medicine, merchandize provision &c, were perfectly dryed, repacked and put on board the perogue. the loss we sustained was not so great as we had at first apprehended; our medicine sustained the greatest injury, several articles of which were intirely spoiled, and many others considerably injured; the ballance of our losses consisted of some gardin seeds, a small quantity of gunpowder, and a few culinary articles which fell overboard and sunk, the Indian woman to whom I ascribe equal fortitude and resolution, with any person onboard at the time of the accedent, caught and preserved most of the light articles which were washed overboard all matters being now arranged for our departure we lost no time in seting out; proceeced on tolerably well about seven miles and encamped on the Stard. side.
in the early part of the day two of our men fired on a panther, a little below our encampment, and wounded it; they informed us that it was very large, had just killed a deer partly devoured it, and in the act of concealing the ballance as the country on either side of the river is broken and hills much higher than usual, the bottoms now become narrow and the timber more scant; some scattering pine and cedar on the steep declivities of the hills.— this morning a white bear toar Labuiche's coat which he had left in the plains.— |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: Drewyer's horse left his camp last night and was brought to us this morning by an indian who informed us he had found him a considerable distance towards the mountains. Hohâstillpilp and all the natives left us about noon and informed us that they were going up the river some distance to a place at which they expected to fine a canoe, we gave them the head and neck of a bear, a part of which they eat and took the ballance with them. these people sometimes kill the variagated bear when they can get them in the open plain where they can pursue them on horseback and shoot them with their arrows. the black bear they more frequently kill as they are less ferocious. our sick men are much better today. Sahcargarmeah geathered a quantity of the roots of a speceis of fennel which we found very agreeable food, the flavor of this root is not unlike annis seed, and they dispell the wind which the roots called Cows and quawmash are apt to create particularly the latter. we also boil a small onion which we find in great abundance, with other roots and find them also an antidote to the effects of the others. the mush of roots we find adds much to the comfort of our diet.— we sent out several hunters this morning but they returned about 11 A. M. without success; they killed a few pheasants only. at 5 P. M. Drewyer and Cruzatte returned having killed one deer only. Drewyer had wounded three bear which he said were as white as sheep but had obtained neither of them. they informed us that the hunting was but bad in the quarter they had been, the Country was broken and thickly covered in most parts with underbrush. a little after dark Shannon and Labuish returned with one deer; they informed us that game was wild and scarce, that a large creek (Collins' Creek) {Lolo Creek, forming the boundary between Clearwater and Idaho counties, Idaho] ran parallel with the river at the distance of about 5 or 6 miles which they found impracticable to pass with their horses in consequence of the debth and rapidity of it's current. beyond this creek the Indians inform us that there is great abundance of game. Sergt. Pryor and Collins who set out this morning on a hunting excurtion did not return this evening.— I killed a snake {Great Basin gopher snake, Pituophis melanoleucus deserticola] near our camp, it is 3 feet 11 Inches in length, is much the colour of the rattlesnake common to the middle atlantic states, it has no poisonous teeth. it has 218 scutae on the abdomen and fifty nine squamae or half formed scutae on the tail. the eye is of moderate size, the iris of a dark yellowish brown and puple black. there is nothing remarkable in the form of the head which is not so wide across the jaws as those of the poisonous class of snakes usually are.— I preserved the skin of this snake. |
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| 1836 | Edgar Allan Poe (Age 27) Marries Virginia Clemm (Age 13) |
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| 1843 | Two Ships of the Texas Navy Win a Decisive Victory Against Mexico |
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| 1849 | New York City Opens Hospital for Treatment of Cholera |
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| 1850 | The Reverend Edward D. Neill's Presbyterian Chapel Is Destroyed in St. Paul, Minnesota's First Fire |
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| 1861 | Kentucky House of Representatives Votes for Civil War Neutrality |
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| 1862 | President Lincoln Transmits to Congress an Indian Treaty for Kansas |
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| 1863 | Grant Defeats Confederates at Champion's Hill, Mississippi |
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| U.S. Schooner Two Sisters Captures the Confederate Schooner Oliver S. Breese Off the Florida Keys |
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| 1864 | U.S.S. Somerset Captures 6 Boats, 4 Prisoners and Ammunition Near Apalachicola, Florida |
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| The First 11 "Mercer Girls" Arrive to Increase Seattle, Washington's Supply of Teachers and Women |
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| 1866 | Congress Authorizes Minting the Nickel to Replace the Smaller Half-Dime |
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| 1868 | Congress Fails by One Vote to Convict President Johnson |
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| 1874 | 139 Die When an Earthen Dam Gives Way on the Mill River in Western Massachusetts |
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| 1875 | Earthquake Strikes Venezuela & Colombia: 16,000 die |
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| 1888 | Emile Berliner Demonstrates Gramophone at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute |
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| 1898 | The 12th, 13th, and 14th Regiments of the Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Depart for Training |
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| The 1st Arkansas Volunteer Infantry Is Mustered into Service |
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| 1901 | The North Georgia Electric Company Is Incorporated |
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| 1903 | In New York City, Coney Island's Luna Park Opens Illuminated by 122,000 Light Bulbs |
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| 1909 | 5.5 Magnitude Earthquake Is Largest in North Dakota's Recorded History |
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| 1914 | American Horseshoe Pitchers Association Is Organized in Kansas City. Kansas |
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| 1918 | U.S. Congress Passes Sedition Act |
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| 1920 | Joan of Arc Is Canonized by the Catholic Church |
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| 1922 | "Canada Dry" Pale Ginger Ale Trademark Is Registered |
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| 1924 | U.S. Army Round-the-World Fliers Leave Alaska's Attu Island for Paramashiru Island, the Longest Leg of the Trip |
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| Edith Wharton's Stories Are Published as a Boxed Set by D. Appleton and Company, New York |
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| 1925 | WHAS Louisville Airs First Network Radio Broadcast of the Kentucky Derby |
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| 1929 | The First Academy Award Ceremony Is Held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles |
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| 1932 | Louisiana's New State Capitol Building Is Dedicated at Baton Rouge |
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| 1933 | Military Units Are Called Out to Control Violence in Wisconsin's Statewide Milk Strike |
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| 1937 | Thomas Wolfe's Story "Return" Is Published in The Asheville Citizen-Times |
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| 1938 | 34 Die in the Atlanta, Georgia Terminal Hotel Fire |
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| 1940 | University of Washington Opens First Theater Built for In-the-Round Performances |
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| 1943 | In Warsaw, Poland, the Nazis Bring the Uprising Under Control in the Jewish Ghetto |
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| British Bombers Destroy Two German Dams in the Ruhr Valley |
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| 1944 | Florida's 85-mile Overseas Highway to Key West Is Dedicated at Florida City |
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| 1946 | Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun Opens on Broadway |
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| 1958 | At Edwards AFB, California., USAF Capt. Walter W. Irwing Sets a World Speed Record of 1,404.19 mph in a F-104A Starfighter |
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| 1960 | Theodore Maiman Produces First Laser Light (Ruby Laser) |
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| Khrushchev & Eisenhower Trade Angry Barbs at Paris Summit |
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| 1963 | Gordon Cooper Returns to Earth After 22 Orbits Aboard Mercury Capsule |
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| The City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Is Incorporated |
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| 1967 | Tennessee Repeals Its "Monkey Law" Against the Teaching of Evolution |
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| 1968 | 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 47 in Honshu, Japan |
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| 400 Hispanic High School Students Protest Poor Quality Schools in San Antonio, Texas |
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| 1969 | The South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) Is Established |
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| $50M U.S. Atomic Submarine Guitarro Sinks at Dockside Undergoing Final Fitting in San Francisco, California |
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| 1972 | Michigan Voters Approved Constitutional Amendment Allowing a State Lottery |
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| Jaocb Druckman's "Windows" for Orchestra Is Premiered by the Chicago Symphony and Will Be Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music |
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| 1974 | Israeli Planes Bomb Palestinian Refugee Camps in Southern Lebanon, Killing at Least 27 |
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| 1975 | Japan's Junko Tabei Is First Woman to Scale Mount Everest |
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| Wings Release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK |
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| 1977 | South Africa's Government Banishes Winnie Mandela to Brandfort |
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| 1987 | The Last Known "Dusky Seaside Sparrow" Dies in Captivity at Disney World |
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| 1988 | Supreme Court Rules Trash May be Searched Without Warrant |
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| 1991 | Queen Elizabeth II Is the First British Monarch to Address Congress |
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| 1992 | Second Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA II) Ends in a Deadlock |
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| 1995 | Japanese Arrest Cult Leader for Nerve-gas Attack on Tokyo's Subways |
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| 1997 | President Mobutu Sese Seko Flees Zaire, Ending 32 Years of Autocratic Rule |
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