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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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Africa Day
( Commemorates the formation of the Organization of African United (1963) & the African Union (2001) ) |
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Argentina: National Day/Anniversary of the May Revolution
(Commemorates Argentina's independence from Spain, creation of provisional government: 05/25/1810) |
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Jordan: Independence Day
(Commemorates independence from Great Britain: 05/25/1946) |
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Lebanon: National Liberation Day
(Commemorates liberation of South Lebanon following Israel's withdrawal: 05/24/2000) |
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United States: National Missing Children's Day
(Observed annually on May 25 to remember the abduction of 6-year-old Etan Patz: 05/25/1979) |
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1917 | Robert Froman (Montana-born Children's Author) |
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1920 | Martha Alexander (Georgia-born Children's Author and Illustrator) |
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1930 | Ann McGovern (New York City-born Historical Children's Author) |
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1931 | Ivy Ruckman (Nebraska-born Children's Author) |
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1933 | Betty Levine (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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1938 | Joyce Carol Thomas (Oklahoma-born African-American Children's Author) |
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1943 | Barbara Bottner (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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1945 | Adrienne Kennaway (New Zealand Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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1803 | Ralph Waldo Emerson (Massachusetts-born Poet, Essayist; Important Figure in Transcendentalism) |
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1818 | Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (Swiss Historical Author) |
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1879 | William Beaverbrook (Canadian-born English Politician, Journalist and Newspaper Proprietor) |
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1908 | Theodore Roethke (Michigan-born Poet: Received 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) |
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1913 | Richard Dimbleby (English Reporter, Pioneering Broadcast Journalist) |
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1927 | Robert Ludlum (New York City-born Author) |
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1938 | Raymond Carver (Oregon-born Author) |
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1949 | Jamaica Kincaid (Antiguan African-American Author) |
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1944 | Frank Oz (English Puppeteer: Known for His Work on "Sesame Street" and Star Wars) |
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1929 | Beverly Sills (New York City-born Operatic Vocalist) |
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1889 | Igor Sikorsky (Ukrainian-American Aircraft Designer; Developed the Helicopter) |
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1914 | Norman Borlaug (Iowa-born Agronomist; 1970 Nobel Laureate for Peace) |
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1921 | Jack Steinberger (German Physicist: 1988 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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1925 | John Cocke (North Carolina-born Computer Pioneer: Inventor of RISC Computer Technology) |
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1898 | Bennett Cerf (New York City-born Publisher, Businessman, Founder of Random House Publishers) |
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1661 | Claude Buffier (French Jesuit Philosopher, Historian and Educator) |
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1713 | John Stuart, Earl of Bute (Great Britain's First Scottish Prime Minister) |
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1783 | Philip P. Barbour (Virginia-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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1852 | Samuel Taylor (Mississippi-born Member of the U.S. Congress From Arkansas) |
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1862 | Mariano Abril y Ostaló (Puerto Rican Political, Social Leader, Author) |
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1886 | Phillip Murray (Scottish-American Labor Leader) |
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1889 | Lillie Carroll Jackson (Maryland-born African-American Civil Rights Activist) |
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Oscar Rennebohm (Governor of Wisconsin: 1947 - 1951) |
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1892 | Marshal Tito (Yugoslavian Dictator) |
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1905 | Dorothy Wesley (Virginia-born African-American Librarian) |
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1849 | "Blind Tom" Thomas Greene Bethune (Georgia-born African-American Composer, Pianist) |
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1878 | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (Virginia-born African-American Stage and Screen Dancer) |
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1918 | Claude Akins (Georgia-born Actor) |
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1926 | Miles Davis (Illinois-born African-American Jazz Trumpeter) |
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1939 | Ian McKellen (English Actor) |
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Dixie Carter (Tennessee-born Actress) |
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1943 | Leslie Uggams (New York City-born African-American Singer, Actress) |
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1963 | Mike Myers (Canadian Comedian, Actor) |
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1975 | Lauryn Hill (New Jersey-born Singer, Songwriter, Actress) |
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1897 | Gene Tunney (New York City-born Member of the Boxing Hall of Fame) |
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1932 | K.C. Jones (Texas-born African-American Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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1935 | Carlton Chester "Cookie" Gilchrist (Pennsylvania-born African-American Professional Football Player) |
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1971 | Sheryl Swoopes (Texas-born African-American Professional Basketball Player) |
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1085 | Pope Gregory VII (Italian-born Catholic Pope) |
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1261 | Pope Alexander IV (Catholic Pope) |
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1919 | Madame C.J. Walker (Louisiana-born African-American Businesswoman) |
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1934 | Gustav Holst (English Composer) |
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1936 | Sydney Percival Bunting (English-born South African Communist and Labour Union Leader) |
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1937 | Henry Ossawa Tanner (Pennsylvania-born African-American Artist) |
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1939 | Frank Watson Dyson (English Astronomer Royal, 1910-1933) |
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1521 | Refusing to Retract any of His Teachings, Martin Luther Is Officially Pronounced a Heretic |
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1539 | Hernando DeSoto Lands at Tampa Bay, Florida |
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1660 | Exiled King Charles II Returns to England to End 11-Year Military Rule |
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1778 | Two Members of the Delaware Regiment Are Shot in Wilmington for Desertion |
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1780 | In Illinois, George Rogers Clark Arrives at Cahokia to Counter the British Threat to St. Louis |
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1787 | Constitutional Convention Convenes in Philadelphia Led by George Washington |
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1793 | Alexander Baranov Arrived on Alaska's Sitka Sound from Kodiak to Establish a Post for the Newly Organized Russian American Company |
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1799 | Father Stephen Theodore Badin Is the First Catholic Priest Ordained in the United States |
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1805 | Leaders of the Cordwainers Strike Are Arrested in Philadelphia |
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1805 |
![]() Lewis: The Two canoes which we left behind yesterday to bring on the meat did not arrive this morning untill 8 A M. at which time we set out; the wind being against us we did not proceed with so much ease or expedition as yesterday, we imployed the toe line principally which the banks favored the uce off; the courant strong particularly arround the points against which the courant happened to set, and at the entrances of the little gullies from the hills, those rivulets having brought down considerable quantities of stone and deposited it at their entrances forming partial barriers to the water of the river to the distance of 40 or 50 feet from the shore, arround these the water run with great violence, and compelled us in some instances to double our force in order to get a perorogue or canoe by them. as we ascended the river today I saw several gangs of the bighorned Anamals on the face of the steep bluffs and clifts on the Stard. side and sent drewyer to kill one which he accomplished; Capt. Clark and bratton who were on shore each killed one of these anamals this evening. The head and horns of the male which Drewyer killed weighed 27 lbs. it was somewhat larger than the male of the common deer, the boddy reather thicker deeper and not so long in proportion to it's hight as the common deer; the head and horns are remakably large compared with the other part of the anamal; the whole form is much more delicate than that of the common goat, and there is a greater disparity in the size of the male and female than between those of either the deer or goat. the eye is large and prominant, the puple of a deep sea green and small, the iris of a silvery colour much like the common sheep; the bone above the eye is remarkably prominant; the horns of the female are small, but are also compress bent backwards and incircled with a succession of wavy rings. the horn is of a light brown colour; when dressed it is almost white extreemly transparent and very elastic. this horn is used by the natives in constructing their bows; I have no doubt but it would eligant and ucefull hair combs, and might probably answer as many valuable purposes to civilized man, as it dose to the savages, who form their watercups spoons and platters of it. the females have already brought forth their young indeed from the size of the young I suppose that they produce them early in March. they have from one to two at a birth. they feed on grass but principally on the arromatic herbs which grow on the clifts and inaccessable hights which they usually frequent. the places they gerally celect to lodg is the cranies or cevices of the rocks in the faces of inacessable precepices, where the wolf nor bear can reach them and where indeed man himself would in many instancies find a similar deficiency; yet these anamals bound from rock to rock and stand apparently in the most careless manner on the sides of precipices of many hundred feet. they are very shye and are quick of both sent and sight.— we passed 7 Islands in the course of the day. The Country on either hand is high broken and rockey; the rock is either soft brown sand stone covered with a thin strata of limestone, or a hard black rugged grannite, both usually in horizontal stratas and the Sandy rock overlaying the other.— Salts and quarts still appear, some coal and pumice stone also appear; the river bottoms are narrow and afford scarcely any timber. the bars of the river are composed principally of gravel, but little pine on the hills. We saw a pole cat this evening it is the first we have seen for many days. buffalow are now scarce and I begin to fear our harvest of white puddings are at an end. |
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1806 |
![]() Lewis: It rained the greater part of last night and continued untill 6 A. M. our grass tent is impervious to the rain. the Child is more unwell than yesterday. we gave it a doze of creem of tartar which did not operate, we therefore gave it a clyster in the evening. we caused a sweat to be prepared for the indian Cheif in the same manner in which Bratton had been sweated, this we attempted but were unable to succeed, as he was unable to set up or be supported in the place. we informed the indians that we knew of no releif for him except sweating him in their sweat houses and giving him a plenty of the tea of the horsemint which we shewed them. and that this would probably nos succeed as he had been so long in his present situation. I am confident that this would be an excellent subject for electricity and much regret that I have it not in my power to supply it.— Gibson and shields returned this evening having killed a Sandhill Crain only. they had wounded a female bear and a deer but got neither of them. Gibson informed me that the bear had two cubbs one of which was white and other as black as jett. four indians remained with us this evening.—
Clark:
rained moderately the greater part of last night and this morning untill 6 A. M.
Drewyer Labiech and Peter crusatt Set out hunting towards the quarmash grounds if they can cross the Creek which is between this and that place, which has been the bearrer as yet to our hunters. Jos. & R Fields crossed the river to hunt on the opposit side some miles above where the natives inform us that there is an abundance of bear and some deer.
Goodrich went to the 2d village to purchase roots a fiew of which he precured. he informed us that only 8 persons remained in the Village. the men were either hunting on Lewis's river fishing, & the women out digging roots. he saw Several fresh Salmon which the nativs informed him Came from Lewis's river and were fat and fine.
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1810 | Argentineans Declare Independence from Spain, Create Provisional Government |
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1820 | Michigan Governor Lewis Cass Sets Out to Explore the Territory's Upper Peninsula |
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1822 | The Steamship Superior Arrives in Detroit from Buffalo, New York with 94 Passengers |
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1843 | Fire Devastates Homes and Businesses in Tallahassee, Florida |
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1844 | First Telegraphed News (from Washington, D.C.) Appears in Baltimore's Patriot |
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1850 | The New Mexico Assembly Completes Its First Constitution, Establishing a U.S.-Style Government and Repudiating Slavery |
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In Minnesota, the Governor Ramsey Is the First Steamboat to Travel the Mississippi River Above the Falls of St. Anthony |
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1852 | E.G. Otis Is Issued a Patent for a Railroad Car Brake |
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1859 | Author/Traveler Bayard Taylor Lectures in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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1861 | President Lincoln Suspends the Writ of Habeas Corpus During the Civil War |
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President Lincoln Writes Letter of Condolence to Parents of Colonel Ellsworth |
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Disguised as a Boy, Canadian Sarah Seelye Enlists in the Union Army |
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1862 | Stonewall Jackson Defeats Union Troops at First Battle of Winchester, Virginia |
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President Lincoln Uses Telegraph to Contact Generals and Direct Troop Movements at Front Royal, Virginia |
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1863 | President Lincoln Spends Day Visiting Hospitals |
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1864 | Sherman Suffers Heavy Casualties at the Battle of New Hope Church in Georgia |
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1865 | Explosion of 20 Tons of Confederate Gunpowder Levels Part of Mobile, Alabama, Killing Up to 300 |
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1867 | In Minnesota, the Minneapolis Daily Tribune Is First Published |
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1869 | The Newly Completed Vienna Opera on the Ringstrasse Opens with a Production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" |
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1879 | Saint Patrick's Cathedral Is Dedicated in New York City |
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1892 | Grady Hospital Is Dedicated in Atlanta, Georgia |
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1893 | Lake Butler Is Incorporated by the Florida Legislature |
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1896 | First Meeting Is Held of the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy |
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1898 | The Second Arkansas Volunteer Infantry Is Mustered into Service with 100 Men and Officers |
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1910 | First-ever Night Airplane Flight is Made at Orville Wright's Flying School Near Montgomery, Alabama |
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1911 | Fire Sweeps through New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory: 146 die |
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Mexico's President Porfirio Diaz Resigns and Is Exiled to Paris |
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Thomas Mann Visits the Lido in Venice |
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1915 | Large-Scale Deportations of Armenians Begin in Turkey |
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1921 | The African-American Town of Eatonville Is Incorporated by the Florida Legislature |
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1923 | 5.7 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 2,200 in Iran |
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1925 | Tennessee Teacher, John Scopes, Is Indicted for Teaching the Theory of Evolution |
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1926 | In St. Paul, Minnesota, the Ku Klux Klan Burns a Cross at Mounds Park |
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1935 | Jesse Owens Breaks 3 World Records, Ties 4th, in 70 Minutes |
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Babe Ruth Hits the 714th and Final Home Run of His Career |
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1937 | Tiger Catcher Mickey Cochrane Is Beaned, Fractured Skull Ends His Career |
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1944 | A Madison Square Garden Concert by Arturo Toscanini, the NBC Symphony and the New York Philharmonic Raises $100,000 for the American Red Cross |
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In a London Car Crash, War Correspondent Ernest Hemingway Suffers a Concussion Requiring 57 Stitches |
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1946 | Truman's Request of Congress for Military Intervention Ends Railroad Strike |
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Jordan Declares Independence from Britain, Ben Al Hussein Proclaimed King |
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1948 | Andrew Moyer Is Granted Patent For a Method of Mass Production of Penicillin |
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1951 | Two British Foreign Office Officials Turned Soviet Spies, Disappear from London |
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1953 | It Came from Outer Space Debuts as First 3-D Sci-Fi Film |
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1955 | 300 mph Tornado Destroys Udall, Kansas: 80 Die, 270 Injured |
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1960 | Chinese Plant Flag & Bust of Mao Zedong on Summit of Nepal's Mount Everest |
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1961 | President Kennedy Tells Congress the U.S. Should Land a Man on the Moon |
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27 "Freedom Riders" Arrive in Jackson, Mississippi, and Are Arrested |
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1962 | Federal District Court Finds the Georgia General Assembly in Violation of the 14th Amendment |
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1963 | 32 Nations Establish the Organization of African Unity Hosted in Ethiopia |
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1964 | In Massachusetts, Fire Destroys 5,500 Acres of Myles Standish State Forest and 26 Structures |
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1965 | Muhammad Ali KO's Sonny Liston to Win World Heavyweight Boxing Title |
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NASA Launches an Unmanned Apollo Saturn Test Rocket |
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1966 | NASA Launches Explorer 32 to Monitor Global Atmospheric Conditions |
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Melvin B. Tolson Receives the Annual Poetry Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters |
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1968 | St. Louis Gateway Arch Is Dedicated |
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West Virginia's Cass Scenic Railroad Begins Service to the Top of Bald Knob |
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1969 | Sudan's Government Overthrown in Military Coup Led by Colonel Jaafar Nimeiri |
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Midnight Cowboy Is Released |
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1971 | President Nixon Marks the Start of Construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway |
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1972 | Last U.S. Corona Spy Satellite Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA |
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1973 | NASA Launches First Skylab Crew for 28-day Mission |
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1975 | Grizzly Bear Is Classified As a "Threatened Species" |
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1977 | Chinese Government Removes Ban on Shakespeare |
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Star Wars Is Released |
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1979 | DC-10 Crashes on Takeoff At Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Kills 270+ |
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1981 | "Spiderman", Daniel Goodwin, Scales Outside of Willis (Sears) Tower in 7.5 Hrs. |
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1982 | Argentine Missiles Strike Two British Ships: Dozens Die |
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1983 | Three Vessels Catch Fire on Egypt's Nile River: More Than 300 Die |
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1989 | Mikhail Gorbachev Elected Executive President of the Soviet Union |
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1992 | Veteran Politician Oscar Luigi Scalfaro Elected President of Italy |
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Jay Leno Makes His First Appearance As Host of the Tonight Show |
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1993 | Guatemala's President Dissolves Congress and Suspends the Constitution |
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1994 | South African Judge Calls for Establishment of a "Truth Commission" on Apartheid Atrocities |
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1995 | NATO Launches Air Strikes Against Bosnian Ammunition Bunkers Near Pale |
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1997 | Polish Voters Ratify Constitution, Removing Last Traces of Communism |
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A Bloody Military Coup Topples Sierra Leone's Elected President |
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The Minnesota Twins Retire Number 34 Worn by Kirby Puckett |
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2008 | NASA's Phoenix Explorer Lands on the Surface of the Martian Arctic Plain |
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An F4 Tornado Levels 1/3 of Parkersburg, Iowa |
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