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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 day:
I GRIND HI VAIN LAVA |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a novel by Beverley Naidoo (according to her official website):
RAIN FICH FOE |
(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 poem by Alexander Pope (according to the University of Toronto):
BE TOO A RAILS LEAD |
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Chile: Battle of Iquique/Navy Day
(Commemorates 1879 Battle of Iquique) |
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United States: National Waitstaff Day
(Give an extra tip to a waiter or waitress) |
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| 1911 | Virginia Haviland (New York-born Librarian, Children's Author) |
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| 1928 | Janet Bruce Winn (New Jersey-born Children's Author) |
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| Brenda Seabrook (Georgia-born Children's Author) |
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| 1943 | Beverley Naidoo (South African Children's Author) |
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| 1955 | Erica Silverman (New York-born Children's Author) |
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| 427 B.C. | Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher) |
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| 1688 | Alexander Pope (English Poet, Satirist) |
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| 1901 | Regina Anderson (Chicago-born African-American Librarian, Playwright, Arts Advocate: a Leader of the Harlem Renaissance ) |
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| 1916 | Harold Robbins (New York City-born Novelist) |
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| 1926 | Robert Creeley (Massachusetts-born Poet, Novelist, Editor, Teacher) |
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| 1944 | Janet Dailey (Iowa-born Novelist) |
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| 1471 | Albrecht Dürer (German Artist) |
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| 1844 | Henri Rousseau (French Artist) |
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| 1902 | Marcel Breuer (Hungarian-American Architect) |
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| 1909 | Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel (German Artist; Creator of Hummel Porcelain Figures) |
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| 1923 | Doris Akers (Missouri-born African-American Gospel Composer, Vocalist) |
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| 1736 | Francis Egerton (Duke of Bridgwater Who Pioneered Britain's Canal System) |
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| 1850 | Gustav Lindenthal (Austrian-American Civil Engineer) |
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| Giuseppe Mercalli (Italian Volcanologist, Seismologist. Inventor of the Mercalli Intensity Scale) |
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| 1860 | Willem Einthoven (Dutch Physiologist, Developer of the Electrocardiograph Awarded the 1924 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine) |
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| 1867 | Frances Densmore (Minnesota-born Ethnologist) |
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| 1878 | Glenn Curtiss (New York-born Aviation Pioneer) |
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| 1921 | Andrei Sakharov (Russian Physicist, Human Rights Activist Award the 1975 Nobel Prize for Peace) |
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| 1934 | Bengt I. Samuelsson (Swedish Physiologist Awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine) |
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| 1898 | Armand Hammer (New York City-born, Entrepreneur, Oil Magnate, Art Collector) |
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| 1527 | Philip II (King of Spain and Portugal) |
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| 1780 | Elizabeth Fry (English Philanthropist, Social Reformer) |
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| 1796 | Reverdy Johnson (Maryland-born Attorney, U.S. Senator) |
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| 1851 | Leon Bourgeois (French Statesman, Promoter of the League of Nations; Awarded 1920 Nobel Prize for Peace) |
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| 1856 | Grace Hoadley Dodge (New York City-born Philanthropist) |
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| 1944 | Mary Bourke Robinson (First Female President of Ireland ) |
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| 1904 | (Thomas Wright) "Fats" Waller (New York City-born African-American Composer, Pianist, Organist, Bandleader) |
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| 1917 | Raymond Burr (Canadian Actor) |
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| 1916 | Dennis Day (New York-born Actor, Singer) |
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| 1941 | David Groh (New York City-born Actor) |
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| Ron Isley (Ohio-born Popular Musician) |
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| 1948 | Leo Sayer (English Popular Musician) |
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| 1951 | Al Franken (Minnesota-born Comedian, Writer) |
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| 1952 | Mr. T (Chicago-born African-American Actor) |
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| 1959 | Nick Cassavetes (New York City-born Actor) |
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| 1972 | Christian McBride (Pennsylvania-born African-American Jazz Bassist) |
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| 1974 | Fairuza Balk (California-born Actress) |
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| 1924 | Clarence (Big House) Gaines (Kentucky-born African-American Coach: Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1941 | Bobby Cox (Oklahoma-born Major League Baseball Manager) |
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| 1471 | Henry VI (King of England) |
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| 1542 | Hernando De Soto (Spanish Explorer) |
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| 1853 | José Martí (Cuban Poet, Revolutionary) |
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| 1894 | Philip Cook (Georgia-born Confederate General) |
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| 1935 | Jane Addams (Illinois-born Social Reformer) |
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| 1950 | Harry Lyman Davis (Governor of Ohio) |
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| 1978 | Moses Kotane (Leader of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress) |
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| 1986 | Helen Brooke Taussig (Massachusetts-born Physician, Founder of Pediatric Cardiology ) |
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| 1989 | Grant Wright Christian (Indiana-born Artist, Muralist) |
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| 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi (Former Prime Minister of India: Assassination) |
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| 2000 | John Gielgud (English Actor) |
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| 1372 | An Earthquake Levels Churches in England |
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| 1471 | King Henry VI of England Is Killed in the Tower of London |
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| 1536 | The Reformation Begins When Geneva, Switzerland's City Fathers Vote to Remove the Roman Catholic Faith |
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| 1542 | Spanish Explorer Hernando De Soto Dies at the Mouth of the Red River and His Body Is Sunk into the Mississippi River |
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| 1654 | Swedish Colony Governor, Johan Classon Rising, Captures the Dutch Fort Casimir and Renames It Fort Trinity |
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| 1673 | Father Jacques Marquette, Fur-Trader Louis Joliet, and Five French Voyageurs Reach a Menominee Community Near Modern Marinette, Michigan |
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| 1696 | King Louis XIV Orders France's Western Great Lakes Outposts Destroyed |
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| 1733 | In Georgia, Oglethorpe's Colonists Sign the Treaty of Savannah with the Nation of the Lower Creeks |
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| 1758 | Lenape Indians Abduct 10-year-old Mary Campbell From Her Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Home |
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| 1804 | Lewis and Clark Expedition Departs St. Charles, Missouri |
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| 1806 |
 Lewis: It rained a few hours this morning. Sheilds and Gibson set out to hunt towards the mountains. Collins came to camp at noon and remained about 2 hours; he has killed nothing since he left us last. we set five men at work to make a canoe for the purpose of fishing and passing the river. the Indians have already promised us a horse for this canoe when we have no longer any uce for her. as our tent was not sufficient to shelter us from the rain we had a lodge constructed of willow poles and grass in the form of the orning of a waggon closed a tone end. this we had made sufficiently large to sleep in and to shelter the most important part of our baggage. it is perfectly secure against the rain sun and wind and affords us much the most comfortable shelter we have had since we left Fort Clatsop. today we divided the remnant of our store of merchandize among our party with a view that each should purchase therewith a parsel of roots and bread from the natives as his stores for the rocky mountains for there seems but little probability that we shall be enabled to make any dryed meat for that purpose and we cannot as yet form any just idea what resource the fish will furnish us. each man's stock in trade amounts to no more than one awl, one Kniting pin, a half an ounce of vermillion, two nedles, a few scanes of thead and about a yard of ribbon; a slender stock indeed with which to lay in a store of provision for that dreary wilderness. we would make the men collect these roots themselves but there are several speceis of hemlock which are so much like the cows that it is difficult to discriminate them from the cows and we are affraid that they might poison themselves. the indians have given us another horse to kill for provision which we keep as a reserved store. our dependence for subsistence is on our guns, the fish we may perhaps take, the roots we can purchase from the natives and as the last alternative our horses. we eat the last morsel of meat which we had for dinner this evening, yet nobody seems much conserned about the state of provision. Willard, Sergt. Ordway and Goodrich were permitted to visit the village today; the former returned in the evening wiht some roots and bread, the two last remaining all night. one of our party brought in a young sandhill crain it was about the size of a pateridge and of a redish brown colour, it appeared to be about 5 or six days old; these crains are abundant in this neighbourhood.
Ordway:
continues rainy & wet.
I and one more of the party went up to a village about 5 miles on South Side on the Side of a hill & Spring run we purchased some white roots Shappalell &C.
Some of the women in the village were crying aloud at different times in the course of the day. I Signed the reason of their lamenting & they gave me to understand that they had lost Some of their Sons in battle and that was the custom among them when their relation died they mourn and lement a long time after the aged women only make a loud noise.
we Stayed in the village all night.
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| 1822 | Californians Hold Their First General Election Selecting Governor Pablo Vicente Sola to Represent Them at the Cortes of the Mexican Empire in Mexico City |
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| 1829 | William S. Fulton Assumes Duties as the Acting Governor of the Arkansas Territory |
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| 1832 | The First Democratic National Convention Begins in Baltimore |
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| 1833 | In Massachusetts, the Mashpee Indians of Cape Cod Sign a Declaration of Independence Demanding Self-Governance |
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| 1839 | The First Steamboat Delivery Arrives in St. Paul, Minnesota |
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| 1840 | New Zealand Is Declared a British Colony |
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| 1843 | More Than 2,000 Persons Attend the Micasukie Methodist Camp Meeting Near Tallahassee, Florida |
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| 1843 | New Zealand Is Declared a British Colony |
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| 1856 | Lawrence, Kansas Is Captured and Sacked by Pro-slavery Forces |
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| 1861 | Confederate Congress Holds Last Meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, Voting to Move the Capital to Richmond, Virginia |
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| Confederate Congress Approves Act to Establish a Patent Office |
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| Confederate Troops Convert the Charlotte Mint into a Headquarters |
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| 1862 | The 4th Florida Infantry Regiment Leaves for Corinth, Mississippi |
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| 1863 | Union Begins 3-week Siege of New Orleans' Port Hudson |
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| The U.S.S. Union Today Seized the British Blockade Runner Linnet West of Florida's Charlotte Harbor |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln Lifts Ban on Publication of New York Newspapers "World" and "Journal of Commerce" |
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| President Lincoln Requests More Troops from Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin to Support Sherman's March |
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| 1874 | President Grant's Daughter, Nellie, Is Wed in the White House |
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| 1875 | West Virginia's State Capital Is Moved to Wheeling |
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| 1881 | Clara Barton Founds the American Red Cross |
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| United States Lawn Tennis Association Is Formed in New York City |
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| 1882 | Mark Twain Visits St. Paul, Minnesota While Compiling Research for His Book Life on the Mississippi |
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| 1892 | The Opera ''I Pagliacci'' by Ruggiero Leoncavallo Is First Performed in Milan, Italy. |
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| 1894 | Queen Victoria Officially Opens England's Manchester Ship Canal |
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| 1901 | Connecticut Is the First State to Enact a Speed Limit for Motor Vehicles: 12 mph |
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| Constitutional Convention Assembles in Montgomery to Write Alabama's Sixth Constitution |
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| 1903 | President Theodore Roosevelt Lays the Cornerstone of the Lewis and Clark Monument in Portland, Oregon |
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| 1910 | Louis Botha Becomes the First Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa |
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| French Author Colette Begins to Publish Her Novel The Vagabond in Serial Form |
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| 1911 | French Troops Anger the Germans by Occupying the Moroccan City of Fez |
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| 1913 | John F. A. Strong Is Appointed as the First Governor of the Alaska Territory |
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| 1917 | In Atlanta, Georgia, Fire Destroys 1,938 Buildings, Leaving 10,000 Homeless and 1 Dead |
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| 1927 | Charles Lindbergh Lands in Paris Completing the First Solo Transatlantic Flight |
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| 1932 | Amelia Earhart Lands in Ireland Completing First Female Solo Transatlantic Flight |
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| 1934 | In Minnesota, Violence Erupts During a Minneapolis Teamsters' Strike, Sending 30 Policemen to the Hospital |
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| 1936 | President Franklin Roosevelt Signs the Rural Electrification Act |
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| 1940 | Nazi's Murder 1,500 East Prussian Hospital Patients as "Unfit" |
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| British Attack Rommel's 7th Panzer Division at Arras, France |
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| 1941 | First U.S. Ship (S.S. Robin Moor) Is Sunk by German U-Boat |
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| 1942 | :2,200 Jews Are Taken to the Edge of Koritz, Poland and Shot Into Pre-Dug Pits |
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| German Conglomerate I.G. Farben Petroleum Factory Opens Near Auschwitz Using Forced Jewish Labor |
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| 1945 | 46-year-old Humphrey Bogart Marries 21-year-old co-Star Lauren Bacall |
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| 1950 | Lightning Kills Two and Tornado Creates Heavy Property Damage Near London |
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| 6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 83, Injures 200 in Central Peru |
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| 1955 | Chuck Berry Records "Maybellene" |
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| 1956 | The United States Explodes the First Airborne Hydrogen Bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific |
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| 1958 | A Federal Court Order Ends Segregation on New Orleans Street Cars and Buses |
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| 1959 | The Musical ''Gypsy'' Opens on Broadway |
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| 1960 | 7.9 Magnitude Earthquake Is First in Two Days to Kill 5,000 in Chile |
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| 1961 | South Korean Military Junta Leader Lt. General Chang Do-yung Announces a Cabinet Has Been Established |
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| 1964 | Baltimore Light Is Activated as the First Nuclear-Powered Lighthouse |
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| 1966 | World Heavyweight Champion, Muhammad Ali, Knocks Out Henry Cooper in London |
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| 1968 | U.S. Nuclear Submarine, Scorpion Sinks in the Atlantic: 99 die |
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| Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act Strengthens South Africa's Apartheid System |
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| 1973 | Marian Wright Edelman Organizes the Children's Defense Fund |
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| 1977 | U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young (an African American) Visits South Africa |
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| Undefeated Seattle Slew Wins the 102nd Preakness Stakes |
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| 1980 | Empire Strikes Back Is Released in the U.S. |
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| 1984 | The Movie "The Natural," Based on the Book by Bernard Malamud, Is Copyrighted |
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| 1985 | Tony Feltch of Wisconsin Sets the World Record for the Longest Distance Flown by a Paper Airplane: 193' |
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| 1988 | Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Dismisses the Communist Party Leaders in Armenia and Azerbaijan |
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| 1989 | 1 Million Hong Kong Demonstrators Support Beijing Protesters for Democracy |
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| 1990 | Final Episode of Newhart Airs |
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| 1991 | Suicide Bomber Assassinates Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi |
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| 1997 | 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 38, Injures 1,000, Leaves Thousands Homeless in India |
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| Tacoma, Washington's Eleventh Street Bridge Is Renamed in Honor of Puget Sound Historian Murray Morgan |
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| 1998 | After 31 Years, Indonesian President Suharto Resigns |
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| 2000 | President Garfield's Spine Goes on Display at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C. |
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| 2003 | 6.7 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Algeria: 1,000+ die |
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| Ohio High School Senior, LeBron James, Signs $90 M Contract with Nike |
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