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MAY 28 |
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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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Tell Us about your most memorable teacher. |
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Today's 5-Minute Quest
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![]() Louis Agassiz Born on This Date 1807 [Harvard University] |
![]() Jim Thorpe Born on This Date 1888 [Sentinel Online] |
![]() Ian Fleming Born on This Date 1908 [Hindustan Times ] |
![]() Betty Shabazz Born on This Date 1936 [Teachers College of New Jersey] |
![]() Debby Atwell Born on This Date 1953 [Official Website] |
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Armenia: First Republic Day
(Commemorates Armenia's Victory over Turkey and Proclamation of an Independent Armenian Republic: 05/28/1918) |
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Azerbaijan: Republic Day
(Commemorates the formation of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic: 05/28/1918) |
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Ethiopia: Overthrow of the Derge Regime
(Commemorates overthrow of Derge military regime by Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front: 05/18/1991) |
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1924 | Isabella Leitner (Hungarian Children's Author) |
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1953 | Debby Atwell (Rhode Island-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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1779 | Thomas Moore (Irish Poet) |
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1855 | Ole Amundsen Buslett (Norwegian-American Author, Journalist) |
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1908 | Ian Fleming (English Author of the James Bond Novels) |
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1911 | Randolph Churchill (English Author, Journalist, Politician) |
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1912 | Patrick White (Australian Novelist; 1973 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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1916 | Walker Percy (Alabama-born Novelist) |
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1919 | May Swenson (Utah-born Author) |
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1936 | Fred Chappell (North Carolina-born Novelist, Poet) |
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1940 | Maeve Binchy (Irish Novelist) |
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1958 | Jill Marie Watts (California-born Author, Historian) |
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1959 | Meg Wolitzer (New York City-born Author) |
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1737 | Josiah Flagg (Massachusetts-born Bandmaster, Music Publisher) |
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1925 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (German Operatic Baritone) |
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1738 | Joseph Ignace Guillotin (French Physician Who First Proposed Beheading as a Humane Means of Execution) |
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1807 | Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (Swiss-American Naturalist, Geologist) |
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1818 | P. G. T. Beauregard (Louisiana-born Confederate General) |
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1660 | George I, King of England |
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1759 | William Pitt the Younger (Prime Minister of England: 1783-1801, 1804-6) |
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1814 | Daniel Reaves Goodloe (North Carolina-born Abolitionist, Author) |
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1831 | Eliza Ann Gardner (New York City-born African-American Abolitionist, Rights Activist) |
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1858 | Lizzie Black Kander (Milwaukee, Wisconsin Social Rights Activist) |
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1884 | Edvard Benes (Czech President: 1953) |
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1936 | Betty Shabazz (Detroit-born African-American Civil Rights Advocate; Wife of Malcolm X) |
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1944 | Rudolph Giuliani (Mayor of New York City) |
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1910 | "T-bone" Walker (Texas-born Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) |
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1931 | Carroll Baker (Pennsylvania-born Actress) |
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1944 | Gladys Knight (Georgia-born African-American Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) |
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1947 | Sondra Locke (Tennessee-born Actress) |
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1970 | Glenn Quinn (Irish Actor) |
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1968 | Kylie Minogue (Australian Singer, Actress) |
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1979 | Jesse Bradford (Connecticut-born Actor) |
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1986 | Joseph Cross (New Jersey-born Actor) |
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1888 | Jim Thorpe (Oklahoma-born Native-American Olympic Champion; Member of the College and Professional Football Hall's of Fame) |
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1896 | Warren Giles (Illinois-born President of the National League; Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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1938 | Jerry West (West Virginia-born Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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1843 | Noah Webster (Connecticut-born Lexicographer) |
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1958 | Stephen Leacock (Canadian Author) |
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1971 | Audie Murphy (Texas-born World War II Hero, Actor) |
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1972 | Duke of Windsor (Formerly King Edward VIII of England) |
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1998 | Phil Hartman (Canadian Comedian, Actor) |
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2000 | Donald Davies (Welsh Internet Pioneer) |
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2002 | Mildred Wirt Benson (Iowa-born Children's Author of Nancy Drew) |
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585 | Solar Eclipse Causes Lydians & Medes to Negotiate Peace |
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1533 | The Archbishop of Canterbury Validates the Marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn |
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1542 | Members of Hernando de Soto's Expedition Place his Remains into the Mississippi River |
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1742 | First Indoor Swimming Pool Opens (Goodman's Fields, London) |
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1754 | The French & Indian War Begins When George Washington Leads a British Attack on French Forces at Jumonville Glen |
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1803 |
![]() The rain does not seem to let up for the explorers. Due to the hard rain in the night, several articles were drenched and some tobacco was ruined. A man from the group joined in with six Indians for their hunt, but no insight as to their interaction was revealed. The weather was so cloudy that no observations could be May 31-Thursday |
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1806 |
![]() Lewis: We sent Goodrich to the village of the broken arm this morning he returned in the evening with some roots bread and a parsel of goats-hair for making our saddle pads. Reubin and Joseph Feilds set out this morning to hunt high up on a creek which discharges itself into this river about 8 miles above us. at Noon Charbono, York and Lapage returned; they had obtained four bags of the dryed roots of Cows and some bread. in the evening Collins Shannon and Colter returned with eight deer. they had fortunately discovered a ford on Collins's Creek where they were enabled to pass it with their horses and had hunted at the quawmash ground where we first met with the Chopunnish last fall. deer were very abundant they informed us, but there were not many bear. The sick Cheif was much better this morning he can use his hands and arms and seems much pleased with the prospect of recovering, he says he feels much better than he has for a great number of months. I sincerely wish these sweats may restore him; we have consented that he should still remain with us and repeat these sweats. he set up a great proportion of the day.— The Child is also better, he is free of fever, the imposthume is not so large but seems to be advancing to maturity.—
Clark:
The Country along the rocky mountains for Several hundred Miles in length and about 50 in width is leavel extremely fertile and in many parts Covered with a tall and opult. growth of the long leafed pine. near the Watercourses the hills are lofty tho' are covered with a good Soil and not remarkably Stoney and possess more timber than the leavel country. the bottom lands on the Water courses are reather narrow and confined tho' fertile and Seldom inundated. this Country would form an extensive Settlement; the Climate appears quit as mild as that of a Similar latitude on the Atlantic Coast; & it cannot be otherwise than healthy; it possesses a fine dry pure air. the grass and maney plants are now upwards of Knee high. I have no doubt that this tract of Country if Cultivated would produce in great abundance every article esentially necessary to the comfort and Subsistence of civillized man. to it's present inhabitents nature Seems to have dealt with a liberal hand, for she has distributed a great variety of esculent plants over the face of the Country which furnish them a plentiful Store of provisions; those are acquired but little toil; and then prepared after the method of the nativs afford not only a nutricious but an agreeable food. among other roots those Called by them the Quawmash and Cows are esteemd. the most agreeable and valuable as they are also the most abundant in those high plains.
The Cows is a knobbed root of an erregularly rounded form not unlike the Gensang in form and Consistence; this root they Collect, rub off a thin black rhind which Covers it and pounding it exposes it in cakes to the Sun. these Cakes are about an inch and ¼ thick and 6 by 18 in wedth, when dry they either eat this bread alone without any further preperation, or boil it and make a thick Musilage; the latter is most common & much the most agreeable. the flower of this root is not very unlike the gensang—. this root they Collect as early as the Snow disappears in the Spring, and Continues to collect it untill the Quawmash Supplies it's place which happins about the Middle of June. the quawmash is also Collected for a fiew weeks after it first makes it's appearance in the Spring, but when the scape appears it is no longer fit for use untill the Seed are ripe which happens about the time just mentioned. and then the Cows declines. The Cows is also frequently dried in the Sun and pounded afterwards and used in thickening Supe and Makeing Mush.
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1827 | In Minnesota, Dakota Warriors Shoot into an Ojibwe Camp Outside Fort Snelling, Killing Several People |
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1830 | President Andrew Jackson Signs the Indian Removal Act, Mandating Resettlement of All Native Americans West of the Mississippi River |
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1837 | The James Madison Is the First Steamer to Reach Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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1838 | Georgia's Governor Gilmer Rejects President Van Buren's Request for an Additional Two Years to Resettle the Cherokee West of the Mississippi River |
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1851 | The First Day of the Ohio Woman's Rights Convention in Akron |
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1854 | The Cornerstone Is Laid for St. Raphael's, the First Catholic Church in Madison, Wisconsin |
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1863 | The 54th Massachusetts African-American Regiment Departs Boston for Combat in South Carolina |
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1864 | Union Forces Suffer 2,400 Casualties and the Confederates 3,000 at the Battle of Dallas, Georgia |
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In Florida, Union Soldiers From the Schooner Fox Destroy Salt Works between the Suwannee River and St. Marks |
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1866 | General William Tecumseh Sherman Arrives in Minnesota's Twin Cities as Commander of the Division of the Mississippi |
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1867 | The U.S. Senate Ratifies the Treaty Providing for the Purchase of Alaska From Russia |
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1872 | Oregonians See Their First Electric Lights as the Illuminated Passenger Steamer, The State of California, Docks at Portland |
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1881 | In Arkansas, the Towns of Rogers and Siloam Springs Are Incorporated |
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A 12-year-old New Castle, Delaware African American Begins 1-Year of Confinement by Being Lashed 20 Times for Burning Down an Outhouse |
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1892 | Sierra Club Founded with 182 Charter Members: John Muir Elected First President |
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The Florida East Coast Railroad Company Is Incorporated |
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1899 | In Wilmington, Delaware, the 200th Anniversary of Old Swedes Church Is Celebrated |
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1900 | In Minnesota, a Storm Leaves 3"-deep Hail in Winona County |
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1902 | Owen Wister's The Virginian Is Published |
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1903 | St. Paul, Minnesota's First Automobile Fatality Occurs When a Child Is Struck |
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1913 | The Michigan Historical Commission Is Organized in Lansing |
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1917 | The City of Lake Wales Is Incorporated by the Florida Legislature |
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1918 | Azerbaijan Is Declared an Independent Republic |
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In the First Sustained American Offensive of the War, Allied Forces Capture the French Village of Cantigny From the Germans |
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Armenians Defeat Turks, Armenia Proclaimed an Independent Republic |
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Barney Oldfield Records the First 100-mph Lap at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway |
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1920 | Devil's Backbone Is Dedicated as Iowa's First State Park |
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1923 | The Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Well Comes in on the Campus of the University of Texas in Reagan County |
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1924 | Congress Establishes the Border Patrol to Prevent Smuggling and Illegal Entrance into the United States |
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1926 | Congress Creates the U.S. Customs Court |
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Ernest Hemingway's Book The Torrents of Spring Is Published by Scribner's in New York |
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1929 | The First All-Color Movie, On with the Show, Debuts |
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1932 | In Florida, the Daytona Art League Is Incorporated |
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1935 | John Steinbeck's First Successful Novel, Tortilla Flat, Is Published |
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The California Pacific Exposition Opens for a Year in San Diego's Balboa Park |
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The Florida Legislature Adopts Stephen Foster's Old Folks At Home as the Official State Song |
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1936 | In Minnesota, the 60-ton 36'-tall Revolving Onyx Statue, "Vision of Peace," Is Dedicated in the Ramsey County Courthouse |
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1937 | From Washington, D.C., President Franklin Roosevelt Opens the Golden Gate Bridge for Automobile Traffic |
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Neville Chamberlain Becomes Prime Minister of Britain |
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1940 | Belgian Army Surrenders Unconditionally to Invading German Forces |
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1947 | Robert Frost's Steeple Bush Is Published by Holt |
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1951 | Princess Elizabeth Formally Opens the Exhibition of Industrial Power in Glasgow, Scotland |
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Willie Mays of the New York Giants Gets His First Major League Hit, a Home Run Off the Boston Braves' Warren Spahn |
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1953 | Disney's Melody Is the First Animated Short Ever Presented in 3-D |
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1954 | Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder Opens in New York |
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1957 | National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Established |
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National League Owners Vote Unanimously to Allow the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers to Move to San Francisco and Los Angeles |
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1958 | The U.S. House of Representatives Passes the Alaska Statehood Bill by a Vote of 208-166 |
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1959 | Two Monkeys Are the First Living Creatures to Survive Space Flight; 300 Miles in a Jupiter Missile Launched From Cape Canaveral, Florida |
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1960 | In Montgomery, Alabama, an All-White Jury Acquits Martin Luther King Jr. of Tax Evasion Charges |
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1961 | Amnesty International Is Founded by Peter Berenson of London, England |
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1964 | Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn Test Launched into Earth Orbit |
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1965 | Methane Gas Causes a Mine Explosion Near Dharbad, India, Killing 375 People and Injuring Hundreds More |
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1967 | Francis Chichester Arrives in Plymouth, England on His Yacht, Gypsy Moth IV, Completing His Single-Handed Voyage Around the World |
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1971 | The USSR Mars 3 Is Launched for the First Soft Landing on Mars |
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600 Mexican-American Women From 23 States Begin a 3-day Conference in Houston, Texas |
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1974 | Northern Ireland's First Power-Sharing Assembly Collapses Leaving Direct Rule from Westminster |
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Baseball-Sized Hail Piled Waist High, Shredding a Corn Crop in the Amboy, Minnesota |
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1977 | Fire Kills 165 People at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky |
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1984 | At Arlington National Cemetery, President Reagan Leads Funeral for Unidentified Soldier |
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1985 | American David Jacobsen Taken Hostage in Lebanon for 17 Months |
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18-year-old Tania Aebi Sets Sail From New York City on a 26" Sloop for a 2 1/2-year 27,000-Mile Solo Voyage Around the World |
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1986 | U.S. Postal Stamp Honors African-American North Pole Explorer, Matthew Henson |
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1987 | 19-year-old German, Matthias Rust, Lands His Private Plane in Moscow's Red Square |
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1991 | Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front Overthrows Ethiopia's Derge Regime |
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1996 | President Clinton's Associates Are Convicted of Fraud in Whitewater Land Deal |
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1998 | Pakistan Explodes Five Underground Nuclear Devices in Response to India's Recent Nuclear Tests |
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In China, a 5.6 Magnitude Earthquake Injures 28 People and Destroys More Than 2,000 Buildings |
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1999 | Da Vinci's Newly Restored Last Supper Reopens to the Public |
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Discovery Is the First Space Shuttle to Dock with the International Space Station |
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2002 | NATO Declares Russia a Limited Partner in the Western Alliance |
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