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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
Good Luck! |
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  Use all of these letters to spell the title of a political or social leader born on this date:
A REAL BOOM LIME |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a book by Rachel Carson (according to the Lakewood Public Library):
FEE HEDGE HOT SEAT |
(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 1970s work by John Cheever (according to the Authors' Calendar):
FAT SWORD HEEL PLOP |
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Nigeria: Children's Day
(Annual day off from school: May 27) |
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| 1927 | M.E. Kerr (New York-born Children's Author) |
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| 1934 | Lynn Sweat (Louisiana-born Children's Author) |
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| 1944 | Garnet Nelson Jackson (Louisiana-born African-American Educator, Poet, Children's Author) |
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| 1819 | Julia Ward Howe (New York City-born Author, Lyricist of the Battle Hymn of the Republic) |
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| 1894 | Louis-Ferdinand Céline (French Novelist) |
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| Dashiell Hammett (Maryland-born Novelist, Mystery Writer of "The Maltese Falcon," "The Thin Man") |
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| 1912 | John Cheever (Massachusetts-born Novelist, Short Story Writer Awarded the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) |
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| 1915 | Herman Wouk (New York City-born Novelist of "The Caine Mutiny," "The Winds of War," "War and Remembrance" |
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| 1925 | Tony Hillerman (Oklahoma-born Mystery Novelist) |
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| 1930 | John Barth (Maryland-born Novelist) |
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| 1932 | Linda Pastan (New York City-born Poet) |
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| 1871 | Georges Rouault (French Painter, Printmaker, Ceramist, Maker of Stained Glass) |
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| 1963 | Thomas Trevor Motswai (Deaf South African Artist) |
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| 1908 | Harold Rome (Connecticut-born Songwriter) |
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| 1898 | David Crosthwaite (Tennessee-born African-American Electrical and Mechanical Engineer) |
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| 1907 | Rachel Carson (Pennsylvania-born Environmentalist, Author of "Silent Spring") |
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| 1909 | William Hansen (California-born Pioneer of Microwave Technology) |
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| 1837 | Wild Bill Hickok (Illinois-born Frontiersman, Lawman, Scout, Marksman) |
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| 1794 | Cornelius Vanderbilt (New York-born Shipping and Rail Magnate) |
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| 1836 | Jay Gould (New York-born Rail Magnate) |
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| 1890 | Vivian Harsh (The First African-American Professional Librarian in the Chicago Public Library System) |
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| 1936 | Richard R. Green (Arkansas-born African-American Educator) |
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| 1818 | Amelia Bloomer (New York-born Women's Rights Activist) |
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| 1862 | Elizabeth Haldane (Scottish Social Reformer, Author) |
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| 1911 | Hubert Humphrey (South Dakota-born U.S. Senator From Minnesota; Vice-President of the United States) |
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| 1918 | Yasuhiro Nakasone (Prime Minister of Japan) |
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| 1923 | Henry Kissinger (German-American Secretary of State; 1973 Nobel Laureate for Peace) |
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| 1911 | Vincent Price (Missouri-born Actor) |
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| 1935 | Ramsey Lewis (Chicago-born African-American Jazz Musician) |
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| 1936 | Louis Gossett Jr. (New York City-born African-American Actor) |
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| 1961 | Peri Gilpin (Texas-born Actress) |
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| 1912 | Sam Snead (Virginia-born Member of the International Golf Hall of Fame) |
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| 1968 | Frank Thomas (Georgia-born African-American Professional Baseball Player) |
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| 1564 | John Calvin (French Theologian) |
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| 1661 | Archibald Campbell, Marquis of Argyll (Scottish Aristocrat Executed on Orders of England's King Charles II) |
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| 1831 | Jedediah Smith (New York-born Frontiersman Killed by Comanche Indians on the Santa Fe Trail) |
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| 1887 | Horace King (South Carolina-born African-American Master Builder of Bridges, Courthouses and the Alabama State Capitol) |
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| 1964 | Jawaharlal Nehru (First Prime Minister of India) |
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| 1975 | Ezzard Charles (Georgia-born African-American Member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame) |
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| 2000 | Maurice Richard (Canadian Member of the Ice Hockey Hall of Fame) |
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| 1647 | Hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, Alse Young Is the First Person Executed as a Witch in America |
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| 1657 | Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell Refuses Parliament's Offer of the Title "King of England" |
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| 1673 | Father Jacques Marquette, Fur-Trader Louis Joliet, and Five French Voyageurs Reach the Site of Modern Green Bay, Wisconsin |
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| 1703 | St. Petersburg Is Founded by Czar Peter the Great |
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| 1778 | George Rogers Clark and 150 Troops Land on Corn Island, the Future Site of Louisville, Kentucky |
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| 1805 |
 Lewis: The wind blew so hard this morning that we did not sent out untill 10 A. M.
we employed the chord most of the day; the river becomes more rappid and is intercepted by shoals and a greater number of rocky points at the mouths of The party was traveling through the Missouri River Breaks, a region which today is still much as it was in Lewis and Clark's time. The Missouri cuts through another preglacial stream divide here creating a deep, narrow channel. the country more broken and barren than yesterday if possible. about midday it was very warm to this the high bluffs and narrow channel of the river no doubt contributed greatly.
saw a few small herds of the Bighorned anamals and two Elk only, of the last
This evening we encamped, for the benefit of wood, near two dead toped cottonwood trees on the Lard. side; the dead limbs which had fallen from these trees furnished us with a scanty supply only, and more was not to be obtained |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: Early this morning we sent Reubin Fields in surch of the horse which the indians had given us to kill. at 10 in the morning he returned with the horse and we killed and butchered him; he was large and in good order. Hohâstillpilp told us that most of the horses we saw runing at large in this neighbourhood belonged to himself and his people, and whenever we were in want of meat he requested that we would kill any of them we wished; this is a peice of liberallity which would do honour to such as bost of civilization; indeed I doubt whether there are not a great number of our countrymen who would see us fast many days before their compassion would excite them to a similar act of liberallity. Sergt. Pryor and the party ordered to the indian Village set out early this morning. in the evening he returned with Gibson and Sheilds. the others remained at the village all night; they brought a good store of roots and bread. we also sent Sergt. ordway and 2 men this morning over to Lewis's river for salmon, which the indians inform us may be procured in abundance at that place, and that it is but half a days ride, nearly south.— Drewyer, Cruzatte, and Labuish returned at 4 P. M. with five deer which they had killed at some distance up Collins's Creek on this side; that stream still continues so high that they could not pass it.— Charbono's son is much better today, tho' the swelling on the side of his neck I believe will terminate in an ugly imposthume a little below the ear. the indians were so anxious that the sick Cheif should be sweated under our inspection that they requested we would make a second attept today; accordingly the hole was somewhat enlarged and his father a very good looking old man, went into the hole with him and sustained him in a proper position during the operation; we could not make him sweat as copiously as we wished. after the operation he complained of considerable pain, we gave him 30 drops of laudanum which soon composed him and he rested very well.— this is at least a strong mark of parental affection. they all appear extreemly attentive to this sick man nor do they appear to relax in their asceduity towards him notwithstand he has been sick and helpless upwards of three years. the Chopunnish appear to be very attentive and kind to their aged people and treat their women with more rispect than the nations of the Missouri.—
Ordway: J. Frazer and wiser Set out to go over to the ki-mooenim river for fish & Swam our horses and waidd on to village on commeap creek three young men went on with us up Sd. creek about 5 miles left this creek ascended a high hill on a plain and proced. on passd. a lodge where we Struck the creek again followed up Said creek about 8 miles farther and came to the chiefs village which took care of our horses. the chief, and as the old man said he was a going on with us in the morning the young men returned and we camped here, and had a hard Thunder Shower. the Indians grass houses leak. |
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| 1813 | Thomas Jefferson Writes John Adams on the Death of Benjamin Rush |
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| 1822 | Andrew Jackson Delivers His "Farewell Address" After Appointing William G. D. Worthington to Replace Him as Acting Governor of East and West Florida |
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| 1831 | Frontiersman Jedediah Smith Is Killed by Comanche Indians on the Santa Fe Trail |
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| 1833 | Dubuque Mines Is Designated as Iowa's First Postal Station |
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| 1837 | The First Post Office Opens in Madison, Wisconsin |
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| 1844 | The First Settler Moves to the Fourierite Utopian Community in What Is Now Ripon, Wisconsin |
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| 1858 | In Eden Prairie, Minnesota About 150 Ojibwe Attack and Defeat Shakopee's Band of Dakota |
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| In Minnesota, the U.S. Army Withdraws from Fort Snelling, Considering the Fort No Longer an Essential Outpost |
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| 1861 | General Benjamin Butler Declares Slaves Contraband of War |
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| 1863 | In Maryland, a Federal Circuit Court Denies President Lincoln's Authority to Suspend Habeas Corpus |
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| In Florida, the Confederate Gunboat C.S.S. Chattahoochee Explodes on the Apalachicola River, Killing 18 Men and Wounding 12 Others |
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| 1864 | At Pickett's Mill in Paulding County, Georgia, Sherman's Union Troops Suffer 1,600 Casualties Compared to 500 Confederates Deaths |
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| 1887 | The Florida Legislature Creates Lake County as the State's 47th County by Taking Territory From Orange and Sumter Counties |
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| 1888 | In Washington, the Stampede Pass Railroad Tunnel Opens a New Railroad Gateway From Puget Sound to the East |
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| 1895 | The City of Wilmington, Delaware Unveils a Statue of Assassinated U.S. President James A. Garfield |
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| 1896 | Tornado Kills 255 in St. Louis and East St. Louis, Illinois |
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| 1902 | In Washington, the City of Seattle Agrees to Allow the City of Ballard to Tap into Its Water System |
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| 1903 | Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Goes on Tour in Wales |
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| 1905 | The Japanese Destroy 33 of Russia's 45 Ships in the Battle of Tsushima Strait |
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| In Alaska, the Steamer White Seal Is Launched at Fairbanks as the First Registered Vessel Built on the Tanana River |
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| 1918 | The Third Battle of the Aisne Begins as the German Army Attacks Allied Positions at the Chemin des Dames Ridge in the Aisne River Region of France |
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| 1919 | A U.S. Navy Crew Completes the First Trans-Atlantic Flight; a 19-day Journey From New York to Portugal |
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| 1922 | West Virginia Union Official, William Blizzard, UMWA, Is Found Not Guilty of Treason for His Role in an Armed March |
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| 1923 | Andre Lagache and Renee Leonard Win the First 1,372.928-Mile Le Mans 24-Hour Race |
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| 1927 | Ford Officially Ends Production of the Model-T |
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| 1930 | A Patent Is Issued to 3M for Its Transparent Cellophane Tape, to be Known as Scotch™ Tape |
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| 1931 | Balloonists Paul Kipfer and Auguste Piccard First to Enter the Stratosphere |
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| Empire Builder, a Passenger Train, Is Hit by a Tornado and Blown Off Its Tracks Near Moorhead, Minnesota, Killing 1 Passenger |
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| 1933 | Walt Disney's Cartoon Three Little Pigs Is Released |
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| 1935 | The U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down the National Industrial Recovery Act |
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| 1936 | Queen Mary Leaves England on Maiden Voyage, Arrives in France 4 Hrs Later |
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| 1937 | The Golden Gate Bridge Is First Opened to Pedestrian Traffic |
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| New York Giants Pitcher Carl Hubbell Wins 24th Game in a Row over Two Seasons |
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| 1938 | In Georgia, Mayor William Hartsfield Approves a City Council Resolution Creating the Atlanta Housing Authority |
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| 1940 | German Troops Murder 97 British Prisoners of War |
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| 1941 | The British Sink German Battleship Bismarck Off Coast of France: 2,300 die |
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| President Franklin D. Roosevelt Proclaims an Unlimited National Emergency |
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| Richard Wright's Signed Appeal Against American Intervention in the War Appears in the New Masses |
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| 1955 | A Conservatives Victory in the British General Election Reinforces Support for Prime Minister, Anthony Eden |
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| 1958 | Ernest Green Is First African-American Graduate of Little Rock Central High School |
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| 1961 | John Tower Is the First Republican Senator Elected in the Texas Since Reconstruction |
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| 1963 | Jomo Kenyatta Is Elected First Prime Minister of Self-Governing Kenya |
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| The Album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," Featuring the Song "Blowin' in the Wind," Is Released |
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| 1968 | George Halas Retires from Coaching the Chicago Bears |
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| 1972 | The U.S. and the Soviet Union Sign Strategic Arms Limitation Agreements in an Attempt to Control Nuclear Weapons |
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| Mark Donohue Wins the Indianapolis 500 with a Record Average Speed of 163.645 mph |
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| 1977 | 583 Crew and Passengers Die as Two 747's Collide on the Ground in Spain's Canary Islands |
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| Myburgh Streicher and Followers Split From the United Party to Form the South African Party |
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| 1980 | Exiled Milton Obote Returns to Uganda |
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| 1987 | Forest Fire Burns Out in China After Destroying 2.5M Acres, Killing 193 and Leaving 50,000 Homeless |
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| In East Wenatchee, Washington, Workers Uncover a Cache of 11,000-to 12,000-year-old Prehistoric Clovis Points Spearheads |
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| 1992 | In Chillicothe, Ohio, Mound City Group National Monument Is Expanded and Renamed as Hopewell Culture National Historical Park |
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| 1994 | Nobel Author, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Returns to Russia After a 20-Year Exile |
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| 1995 | Actor Christopher Reeve Is Paralyzed When Thrown from His Horse |
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| 1996 | Boris Yeltsin Negotiates Cease-fire with Chechen Rebels |
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| 1997 | Referendum Vote Removes Discriminatory Clauses from Australian Constitution |
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| An F5 Tornado Destroys Jarrell, Texas, Killing Nearly 30 People |
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| 1999 | The United Nations Indicts Yugoslavian President Milosevic for Crimes Against Humanity |
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| Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-96) Is Launched on a 6-day Mission and the First Shuttle Docking to the International Space Station |
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| 2006 | Earthquake Kills over 5,000 on the Indonesian Island of Java |
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