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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. | 
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Today's 5-Minute Quest
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  Use all of these letters to spell the name of a children's author who was born on this date:
SOON CAPER US |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a book by Scott O'Dell:
A BACK HEART PELL |
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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 book of poetry by Jane Kenyon (according to the Academy of American Poets):
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World Turtle Day
(Observed annually on May 23) |
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Baha'i Faith: Declaration of Báb
(Commemorates the announcement by the Báb that He was the Bearer of a Divine Revelation: 05/23/1844) |
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Jamaica: Labor Day
(Actual holiday date 05/23, but observed on Monday) |
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| 1898 | Scott O'Dell (California-born Children's Author) |
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| 1918 | Oliver Butterworth (Connecticut-born Children's Author) |
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| 1921 | James Blish (New Jersey-born Children's Author) |
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| 1935 | Susan Cooper (English Children's Author) |
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| 1936 | Peter Parnall (New York-born Illustrator) |
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| 1938 | Merle Peek (Colorado-born Children's Author/Illustrator) |
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| 1941 | Brenda Seabrooke (Florida-born Children's Author) |
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| 1942 | Margaret Wise Brown (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1951 | Jeanne Titherington (Maine-born Children's Author/Illustrator) |
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| 1799 | Thomas Hood (English Poet, Humorist, Editor) |
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| 1810 | Margaret Fuller (Massachusetts-born Writer, Journalist) |
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| 1891 | Par Lagerkvist (Swedish Novelist, Poet, Dramatist; 1951 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1914 | Celestine Sibley (Florida-born Writer, Columnist for the Atlanta Constitution) |
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| 1947 | Jane Kenyon (Michigan-born Poet) |
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| 1958 | Mitch Albom (Pennsylvania-born Writer: Tuesdays with Morrie) |
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| 1795 | Charles Barry (English Architect Responsible for the Design of the Houses of Parliament) |
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| 1910 | Franz Kline (Pennsylvania-born Artist) |
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| 1707 | Carolus Linnaeus (Swedish Botanist: Father of Modern Taxonomy) |
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| 1718 | William Hunter (Scottish Anatomist Instrumental in Establishing Obstetrics as a Medical Discipline) |
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| 1734 | Friedrich Anton Mesmer (German Physician; Developed Use of Hypnosis) |
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| 1820 | James B. Eads (Indiana-born Engineer; Built First Triple-arch Steel Bridge over the Mississippi River) |
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| 1854 | Edgar Fahs Smith (Pennsylvania Chemistry Historian/Librarian) |
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| 1908 | John Bardeen (Wisconsin-born Physicist; Nobel Laureate for Physics in 1956 and 1972) |
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| 1925 | Joshua Lederberg (New Jersey-born Geneticist; 1958 Nobel Laureate for Medicine or Physiology) |
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| 1934 | Robert A. Moog (New York-born Engineer, Inventor: Creator of Moog Synthesizer) |
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| 1875 | Alfred Sloan (Connecticut-born Business Leader, Philanthropist: Headed General Motors) |
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| 1820 | Ambrose Burnside (Indiana-born Union General) |
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| 1900 | Frank Hans (German Nazi Governor of Occupied Poland) |
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| 1846 | Arabella Mansfield (Iowa-born Attorney; First Woman Admitted to the Bar in the United States) |
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| 1873 | Leo Baeck (German Rabbi, Theologian) |
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| 1926 | Joe Slovo (Lithuanian-born Leader of South Africa's Communist Party and the African National Congress) |
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| 1949 | Alan Garcia Perez (President of Peru) |
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| 1883 | Douglas Fairbanks (Colorado-born Actor) |
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| 1910 | Scatman Crothers (Indiana-born African-American Actor) |
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| Artie Shaw (New York City-born Jazz Clarinetist, Bandleader, Arranger, Composer) |
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| 1919 | Ruth Fernández (Puerto Rican Musician) |
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| 1920 | Helen O'Connell (Ohio-born Popular Singer) |
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| 1925 | Mac Wiseman (Virginia-born Bluegrass Singer) |
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| 1928 | Rosemary Clooney (Kentucky-born Popular Singer) |
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| 1933 | Joan Collins (English Actress) |
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| 1936 | Charles Kimbrough (Minnesota-born Actor) |
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| 1945 | Lauren Chapin (Los Angeles-born Actress - Father Knows Best) |
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| 1958 | Drew Carey (Ohio-born Comedian, Actor) |
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| 1974 | Jewel (Utah-born Popular Singer) |
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| 1984 | Adam Wylie (California-born Actor) |
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| 1943 | John Newcombe (Australian Member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame) |
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| 1951 | Anatoliy Karpov (Russian World Chess Champion) |
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| 1952 | Marvin Hagler (New Jersey-born African-American Member of the Boxing Hall of Fame) |
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| 1701 | Captain Kidd (British Pirate Hanged in London) |
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| 1868 | Christopher "Kit" Carson (Kentucky-born Hunter, Soldier, Western Guide) |
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| 1898 | Henry Rootes Jackson (Georgia-born Confederate General) |
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| 1906 | Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian Playwright |
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| 1934 | Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow) (Louisiana Police Shootout) |
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| 1937 | John D. Rockefeller (New York-born Industrialist) |
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| 1945 | Heinrich Himmler (Chief of the Nazi SS; Committed Suicide While in Military Prison) |
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| 1981 | George Jessel (New York City-born Performing Artist) |
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| 2002 | Sam Snead (Virginia-born Member of the Golf Hall of Fame) |
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| 878 | Saxon King Alfred Defeats the Danes at Edington, Wiltshire, Forcing the Danish King to Accept Christianity |
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| 1430 | Joan of Arc Is Captured at Rheims, France by the Burgundians |
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| 1533 | Archbishop of Canterbury Grants Henry VIII a Divorce from Catherine of Aragon |
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| 1576 | Danish King Frederick II Decrees Tycho Brahe the Island of Hven |
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| 1609 | King James I Issues the Second Charter to the Virginia Company of London |
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| 1633 | French Declare That Only Catholics May Settle Permanently in Canada |
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| 1701 | Captain Kidd Is Hanged in London |
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| 1777 | Patriot Troops Capture British Vessels and Burn Supplies at Long Island's Sag Harbor |
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| 1785 | Benjamin Franklin Describes His "Double Spectacles" (Bifocals) in a Letter |
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| 1788 | South Carolina Is the 8th State to Ratify the U.S. Constitution |
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| 1804 |
 After receiving gifts from the Indians, the group was well stocked and prepared to set out early. They gave the Indians whiskey in return for their fine food. The explorers passed an interesting rock to which the Indians and French pay omage; the rock exhibited many names of people who had visited it. Lewis almost fell from a ledge that hung over the river, but he saved himself by using his knife. |
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| 1805 | In Milan, Napoleon Crowns Himself King of Italy |
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| 1805 |
Lewis: Set out early this morning, the frost was severe last night, the ice appeared along the edge of the water, water also freized on the oars. at the distance of one mile passed the entrance of a creek 15 yds. wide on Stard. side, this we call Teapot Creek, it affords no water at it's mouth but has runing water at some small distance above, this I beleive to be the case with many of those creekes which we have passed since we entered this hilley country, the water is absorbed by the earth near the river and of course appear dry; they afford but little water at any rate, and that is so strongly impregnated with these salts that it is unfit for uce; all the wild anamals appear fond of this water; I have tryed it by way of experiment & find it moderately pergative, but painfull to the intestens in it's opperation. just above the entrance of Teapot Creek on the stard. there is a large assemblage of the burrows of the Burrowing Squirrel they generally seelect a south or a south Easterly exposure for their residence, and never visit the brooks or river for water; I am astonished how this anamal exists as it dose without water, [Prairie dogs, Cynomys ludovicianus, like certain other arid-land rodent species, obtain water through their food and retain it better than most mammals. Lewis was apparently the first to report on this phenomenon in North America.] particularly in a country like this where there is scarcely any rain during ¾ of the year and more rarely any due [dew]; yet we have sometimes found their villages at the distance of five or six miles from any water, and they are never found out of the limits of the ground which their burrows occupy; in the Autumn when the hard frosts commence they close their burrows and do not venture out again untill spring, indeed some of them appear to be yet in winter quarters.
The musquetoes troublesome this evening, a circumstance I did not expect |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: Segt. Pryor wounded a deer early this morning in a lick near camp; my dog pursud it into the river; the two young Indian men who had remained with us all night mounted their horses swam the river and drove the deer into the water again; Sergt. Pryor killed it as it reached the shore on this side, the indians returned as they had passed over. we directed half this deer to be given to the indians, they immediately made a fire and cooked their meat, 4 others joined them from the village with the assistance of whom they consumed their portion of the spoil in less than 2 hours and took their leave of our camp. The Creem of tartar and sulpher operated several times on the child in the course of the last night, he is considerably better this morning, tho' the swelling of the neck has abated but little; we still apply polices of onions which we renew frequently in the course of the day and night. at noon we were visited by 4 indians who informed us they cad come from their village on Lewis's river at the distance of two days ride in order to see us and obtain a little eyewater, Capt. C. washed their eyes and they set out on their return to their village. our skill as phisicans and the virture of our medecines have been spread it seems to a great distance. I sincerely wish it was in our power to give releif to these poor afficted wretches. all the horses which have been castrated except my poor unfortunate horse appear as if they would do very well. I am convinced that those cut by the indians will get well much soonest and they do not swell nor appear to suffer as much as those cut in the common way.—
Clark:
at 1 oClock Shannon, Colter, Labuish, Cruzatte, Collins all returned from hunting without haveing killed any thing except a fiew heath hens & black Pheasants two of which they brought with them. Labieche also brought a whisteling squerel [Columbian ground squirrel, Spermophilus columbianus, a new species. See Lewis's longer description at May 27, 1806.] which he had killed on it's hole in the high plains. this squerel differs from those on the Missouri in their Colour, Size, food and the length tal and from those found near the falls of Columbia
Our hunters brought us a large hooting owl [The great gray owl, Strix nebulosa, another new species. See Lewis's longer description at May 28, 1806.] which differ from those of the atlantic States. The plumage of this owl is an uniform mixture of dark yellowish brown and white, in which the dark brown prodominates. it's Colour may be properly termed a dark Iron gray. the plumage is very long and remarkably Silky and Soft. those have not the long feathers on the head which give it the appearance of ears, or horns, remarkable large eyes—.
the hunters informed us that they had hunted with great industry all the Country between the river and for Some distance above and below without the Smallest Chance of killing any game. they inform us that the high lands are very cold with snow which has fallen for every day or night for Several past.
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| 1826 | The American Premiere of Mozart's Opera "Don Giovanni" Is Performed at New York City's Park Theater |
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| 1835 | Los Angeles Is Made the Capitol of California |
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| 1838 | Two Regiments of the Georgia Militia Are Enrolled to Assist with the Westward Emigration of the Cherokees |
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| 1846 | Oregon's Provisional Government Authorizes Construction of a Toll Road from The Dalles to the Upper Clackamas of the Willamette Valley |
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| 1849 | Abraham Lincoln Is Granted a Patent for Design to Refloat Grounded Boats |
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| 1853 | Pioneers File the First Street Plans for the Town of Seattle |
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| 1854 | The First Railroad Reaches Madison, Wisconsin |
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| 1857 | 12 Counties Are Created in Minnesota |
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| 1860 | Abraham Lincoln Accepts the Republican Party's Nomination for President of the United States |
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| 1861 | By a Vote of 132,201 to 37,451, Virginians Support the April 17th Ordinance of Secession |
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| 1862 | Stonewall Jackson's Confederates Capture Front Royal, Virginia |
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| Union Forces Repel a Confederate Attack at Lewisburg, West Virginia |
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| President Lincoln Reviews General McDowell's Troops Near Rappahannock, Virginia |
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| 1864 | Lee Thwarts Grant's Push South at North Ana River, Virginia |
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| Confederate Troops Capture and Destroy the Federal Gunboat Columbine Near Palatka, Florida |
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne is Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts |
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| 1865 | Union Celebrates Victory with Parades in Washington, D.C. |
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| 1871 | Texas Legislature Creates a Position to Promote Immigration into the State |
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| 1873 | The Canadian Parliament Creates the North-West Mounted Police |
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| 1878 | In Wisconsin, Tornadoes Devastate Three Counties, Killing Two People |
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| 1884 | A Fire Destroys Much of the Downtown Area of Cannon Falls, Minnesota |
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| 1895 | Astor & Lenox Libraries Merge to Form the New York Public Library |
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| 1900 | William Carney First African-American to Receive Congressional Medal of Honor |
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| 1903 | President Theodore Roosevelt Begins Two-Day Visit of Seattle, Washington |
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| Wisconsin Is the First State to Adopt a Direct Primary Election Law |
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| 1908 | On Its First Flight, John Morrell's Hydrogen-filled Airship Crashes and Burns over Berkeley, California |
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| The Minnesota National Forest (Now Chippewa National Forest) Is Created |
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| 1910 | The Municipal League of King County, Washington Is Founded |
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| 1911 | New York Public Library Is Dedicated after 16 Years of Construction |
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| The Florida Legislature Creates Pinellas County as the State's 48th County |
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| 1914 | Temperatures Reach 103°F in Tracy, Minnesota |
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| 1915 | Italy Enters World War I Declaring War on Austria-Hungary |
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| 1920 | The Pennsylvania Railroad Begins Service to and from Detroit |
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| 1921 | Shuffle Along Opens at New York City's 63rd Street Music Hall |
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| 1926 | Lebanese Constitution Established under French Mandate of Greater Lebanon |
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| 1928 | Fritz von Opel Uses 24 Sander Rockets to Reach 200 kph in His Opel-Rak II Experimental Rocket Car |
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| 1930 | Patent Act Permits Patenting of Plants |
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| 1931 | Police Shut Down a Dance Marathon/Walkathon in Spanaway, Washington |
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| 1934 | Ernest Hemingway Catches the Largest Atlantic Sailfish Ever Taken on Rod and Reel (9'2", 119.5 lbs) |
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| 1935 | In Alaska, the First 200 Lots Are Awarded by Drawing at the Matanuska Colony, a Government Relief and Development Project. |
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| 1938 | Supreme Court Affirms State Employees Subject to Fed Tax |
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| 1940 | Frank Sinatra Records "I'll Never Smile Again" |
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| 1945 | Heinrich Himmler, Chief of the Nazi SS, Commits Suicide One Day after His Arrest by the British |
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| 1946 | U.S. Railroad Workers Strike for Higher Wages |
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| 1949 | The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) Is Established |
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| 1955 | The Presbyterian Church in the United States Announces It Will Ordain Women |
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| 1958 | Wilt Chamberlain Announces He Is Leaving the University of Kansas to Join the Harlem Globetrotters |
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| 1960 | Israeli Agents Capture Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina |
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| 1968 | 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 3 on New Zealand's South Island |
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| The Superferry Yakima Makes Her Maiden Cruise on Puget Sound |
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| 1970 | 300 Vendors Attract 50,000 Visitors to Seattle, Washington's First Modern Street Fair |
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| 1980 | South African Soldiers Kill 81 South West African Nationalist Guerrilla Fighting for Namibian Independence |
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| 1981 | NASA Launches Intelsat 5 F-1 Telecommunications Satellite |
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| 1983 | South African Forces Bomb an African National Congress Headquarters in Mozambique |
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| 1984 | Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund Sues Texas for Equal Education |
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| 1992 | U.S. & Four Former USSR Republics Sign Missile Reduction Treaty |
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| Delaware Governor Michael Castle Marries Jane DiSabatino in a Private Ceremony |
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| 1994 | South Africa Is Admitted as 53rd Member of the Organisation of the African Union |
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| 1997 | Iranians Elect Moderate Mohammad Khatami As President |
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| 1998 | British Government Welcomes Overwhelming Approval of the Northern Ireland Peace Accord |
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| 2002 | Approval Is Given for the Construction of Britain's Largest Onshore Wind Farm in Wales |
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| 2004 | Seattle's New Central Public Library Opens |
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