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 Jesse Treviño Born 1946 [Official Website]
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 Patrick Flores Born 1929 [HHAF]
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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 name of an author, poet or journalist born on this date:
CHEERY BLOB RENT |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of an 1823 book written by James Fenimore Cooper (according to the Authors' Calendar).
LITHE TOP |
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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 1963 work by Agatha Christie (according to the Authors' Calendar):
CELT SHOCK |
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Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua: Independence Day
(Commemorates independence from Spain by the Central American provinces: 09/15/1821) |
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Great Britain: Battle of Britain Day
(Commemorates Britain's decisive defense against Luftwaffe attacks on London: 09/15/1940) |
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Japan: Keiro no Hi (Respect for the Aged Day)
(Observed annually on September 15) |
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Mexico: Mexican Independence Day (Day 1 of 2)
(Commemorates Father Miguel Hidalgo's pre-dawn declaration of independence from Spain: 09/16/1810) |
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| 1914 | Robert McCloskey (Ohio-born Children's Author) |
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| 1950 | Tricia Springstubb (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1613 | François La Rochefoucauld (French Humorist; Author of Maxims) |
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| 1789 | James Fenimore Cooper (New Jersey-born Author: Last of the Mohicans) |
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| 1795 | James Percival (Connecticut-born Poet, Geologist) |
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| 1888 | Robert Benchley (Massachusetts-born Drama Critic, Actor and Humorist) |
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| 1889 | Claude McKay (Jamaican-born African-American Poet) |
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| 1890 | Agatha Christie (English Mystery Novelist and Playwright) |
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| 1902 | Theodore Ward (Louisiana-born African-American Playwright) |
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| 1940 | Anne Moody (Mississippi-born African-American Author) |
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| 1863 | William Parker (Massachusetts-born Composer) |
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| 1876 | Bruno Walter (German Conductor) |
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| 1913 | Henry Brant (Canadian-American Composer) |
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| 1945 | Jessye Norman (Georgia-born African-American Operatic Soprano) |
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| 1795 | James Percival (Connecticut-born Geologist, Poet) |
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| 1815 | Jan Matzeliger (Suriname-born African-American Inventor) |
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| 1852 | Edward Bouchet (Connecticut-born African-American Scientist, Educator) |
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| 1881 | Ettore Bugatti (Italian Engineer; Builder of Racing and Luxury Automobiles) |
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| 1929 | Murray Gell-Mann (New York City-born 1969 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1876 | Frank Gannett (New York-born American Newspaper Publisher: Founder of Gannett News Service) |
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| 1837 | Daniel Hadley Sumner (New York-born Member of the U.S. Congress from Wisconsin) |
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| 1857 | William Howard Taft (Ohio-born 27th President of the United States; Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1892 | Lawrence Henry Smith (Wisconsin-born Member of the U.S. Congress) |
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| 1984 | HRH Prince Henry (Harry) of Great Britain |
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| 1894 | Jean Renoir (French-born American Film Director) |
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| 1903 | Roy Acuff (Tennessee-born Country Music Singer and Songwriter) |
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| 1907 | Fay Wray (Canadian Actress: King Kong) |
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| 1916 | Margaret Lockwood (English Actress) |
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| 1928 | Cannonball Adderley (Florida-born African-American Jazz Saxophonist and Bandleader) |
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| 1945 | Jessye Norman (Georgia-born African-American Operatic Soprano) |
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| 1946 | Tommy Lee Jones (Texas-born Actor) |
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| Oliver Stone (New York City-born Filmmaker) |
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| 1906 | Irving Jaffee (New York City-born Gold Medal-Winning Speed Skater, 1932 Winter Olympics) |
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| 1938 | Gaylord Perry (North Carolina-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1940 | Merlin Olsen (Utah-born Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1961 | Dan Marino (Pennsylvania-born Member of the Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1834 | William H. Crawford (Georgia Political Leader - Namesake of Crawford County, Georgia) |
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| 1937 | Monsignor Thomas Acquinas Quirk (Irish-American Monsignor of the Catholic Church) |
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| 1938 | Thomas Clayton Wolfe (North Carolina-born Author) |
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| 1976 | Urban "Red" Faber (Iowa-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1982 | Sadegh Ghotbzadeh (Former Foreign Minister of Iran, Executed for Treason) |
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| 1989 | Robert Penn Warren (Kentucky-born Author: All the King's Men) |
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| 2008 | Richard Wright (English Keyboard Player of Pink Floyd) |
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| 1789 | Just Created in July, the U.S. Dept of Foreign Affairs Renamed Dept. of State |
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| 1801 | Alexander Henry II Arrives at Minnesota's Pembina River to Begin His Trading Business |
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| 1803 |
 Lewis: We set out today at sunrise and passed the mouth of the little Kanaway which is one mile form where we camped last night. The mouth is about 60 yards wide and with a huge settlement on the bank. It rained buckets today, from about 7 this morning until 3 in the afternoon. We passed several bad riffles where we had to lift the boat over them, it sure slowed us up. One of the canoes fell far behind and we had to wait several hours for it to catch up with us. I noticed today many squirrels swimming the river although one was going the opposite direction, south-east to north-west. We settled down on the Virginia shore having made 18 miles today. |
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| 1804 |
Clark: We set out early today and passed the mouth of the creek. The current is regular and swift with sand bars in it at different points. There is a much greater number of timber. I saw a number of rabbits and grapes. I killed a Buck Elk and a Deer this evening. It is very cold and there are a number of wolves howling in the strong wind
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| 1805 |
Clark: We set out early. the morning Cloudy and proceeded on Down the right Side of River over Steep points rockey & buschey as usial for 4 miles to an old Indian fishing place, here the road leaves the river to the left and assends a mountain winding in every direction to get up the Steep assents & to pass the emence quantity of falling timber which had falling from dift. causes i e. fire & wind and has deprived the Greater part of the Southerly Sides of this mountain of its gren timber,
4 miles up the mountain I found a Spring and halted for the rear to come up and to let our horses rest & feed, about 2 hours the rear of the party came up much fatigued & horses more So, Several horses Sliped and roled down Steep hills which hurt them verry much The one which Carried my desk & Small trunk Turned over & roled down a
from this point I observed a range of high mountains Covered with Snow from S E. to S W with Their top bald or evening verry Cold and Cloudy. Two of our horses gave out, pore and too much hurt to proceed on and left in the rear— nothing killed to day except 2 Phests. From this mountain I could observe high ruged mountains in every direction as far as I could See. with the greatest exertion we Could only make 12 miles up the mountain and encamped on the top of the mountain near a Bank of old Snow about 3 feet deep lying on the Northern Side of the mountain and in Small banks on the top & leavel parts of the mountain, we melted the Snow to drink, and Cook our horse flesh to eat. |
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| 1806 |
Clark: we set out early with a Stiff Breeze a head saw Several deer Swiming the river soon after we Set out. at 11 A. M. passed the enterance of the Kanzas river which was very low, about a mile below we landed and Capt Lewis and my Self assended a hill which appeared to have a Commanding Situation for a fort, the Shore is bold and rocky imediately at the foot of the hill, from the top of the hill you have a perfect Command of the river, this hill fronts the Kanzas and has a view of the Missouri a Short distance above that river. [ The hill would be in downtown Kansas City, in Jackson County, Missouri ] we landed one time only to let the men geather Pappaws or the Custard apple of which this Country abounds, and the men are very fond of. we discovered a Buck Elk on a Small Island, and sent the 2 fields and Shannon in pursute of it they Soon Came up with and killed the Elk, he was large and in fine order we had his flesh Secured and divided. as the winds were unfabourable the greater part of the day we only decended 49 Miles and encamped a Short distance Above Hay Cabin Creek. we are not tormented by the Musquetors in this lower portion of the river, as we were above the river plat and as high up as the Rochejhone and for a fiew miles up that river, and above its' enterance into the Missouri. we passd Some of the most Charming bottom lands to day and the uplands by no means bad, all well timberd. the weather disagreeably worm and if it was not for the constant winds which blow from the S. and S E. we Should be almost Suficated Comeing out of a northern Country open and Cool between the Latd. of 46° and 49° North in which we had been for nearly two years, rapidly decending into a woody Country in a wormer Climate between the Latds. 38° & 39° North is probably the Cause of our experiencing the heat much more Senceable than those who have Continued within the parralel of Latitude. |
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| 1821 | Five Central American Provinces Declare Independence from Spain |
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| 1824 | Hurricane Drowns 83 people on St. Simons Island Along the Georgia Coast |
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| 1829 | Guerrero Decree Abolishes Slavery in the Republic of Mexico |
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| 1832 | A Treaty with the U.S. Cedes Ho-Chunk Lands Along the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers |
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| 1834 | In Minnesota, Indian Agent Lawrence Taliaferro Suspends the License of Fur Trader Alexis Bailly for Breaking Trade Rules |
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| 1838 | Henry and John, Jr., Thoreau Open the Concord Academy School for Experimental Learning |
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| 1849 | A Block of Carroll County Marble Is Shipped as Arkansas' Contribution to the Washington Monument |
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| 1858 | Two Overland Mail Coaches Initiate First U.S. Transcontinental Mail Service |
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| 1860 | The California Stage Company Commences Daily Service Between Portland, Oregon and Sacramento |
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| 1862 | Confederates Capture Harpers Ferry |
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| The State of Minnesota and Ojibwe Sign a Peace Treaty to Alleviate Fears the Ojibwe Will Join the U.S.–Dakota War |
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| 1863 | Federal Gunboat Shells Bayport, FL Destroying Cotton Warehouse and Confederate Steamer |
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| 1869 | St. Cloud State Teachers College Opens in a Remodeled Hotel, the Former Stearns House |
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| 1882 | Emily Dickinson's Neighbor, Mabel Loomis Todd, First Records Her Impressions of the Poet |
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| 1884 | In Heidelberg, Germany Dr. Carl Koller Demonstrates Cocaine as a Topical, Local Anesthetic |
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| Longman's Magazine Publishes "The Art of Fiction," an Essay by Henry James |
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| 1885 | Macalester College Opens for Its First Class |
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| 1887 | Representing the First State in the Union, Delaware's Governor Leads the Parade in Philadelphia Celebrating the Constitutional Centennial |
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| 1891 | Texan Revolutionary Catarino Garza Attacks Mexican State of Tamaulipas |
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| 1895 | Glenn "Pop" Warner Begins Job As University of Georgia's First Football Coach |
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| 1896 | Railroad Engines Collide in Texas Publicity Stunt Killing 3 Onlookers |
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| 1901 | The Detroit Tigers Record Their Most Lopsided Shutout Victory, Beating Cleveland 21-0 |
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| 1909 | Court Rules Henry Ford Is Violating George Selden's Automobile Patent Rights |
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| 1915 | The Hay Palace, Built of Nearly 1,000 Tons of Baled Alfalfa Hay, Opens in Mabton, Washington |
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| 1916 | British Deploy the First Tanks into Warfare at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette |
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| Descendants of the Settlers Who Organized the State of Indiana 100 Years Earlier Form the Society of Indiana Pioneers |
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| 1917 | Russia Proclaimed a Republic By Head of Provisional Government |
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| 1926 | Florida Airways Begins Airmail Service in Florida and Georgia |
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| 1931 | Zelda Fitzgerald Is Released from Prangins Clinic in Nyon, Switzerland |
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| 1935 | In Nuremberg, NAZI Party Passes Laws "Clarifying" Citizenship in Third Reich |
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| 1940 | British Defense Decisively Repels German Luftwaffe Attacks on London |
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| 1945 | Hurricane Hits Florida's Richmond Naval Air Station Causing $35M Damage |
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| 1946 | Charles Ives' String Quartet No. 2 Is First Performed at the Yaddo Music Festival in Saratoga, New York |
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| 1948 | The Parcel Post Zone System Is Established in Alaska |
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| 1950 | United Nations Forces Land at Inchon, Korea and Begin Drive Toward Seoul |
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| 1954 | Battleship U.S.S. Missouri Arrives in Seattle for Her Last Visit Before Decommissioning in Bremerton |
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| 1959 | Nikita Khrushchev Arrives in Washington, D.C.: First Soviet Leader to Visit U.S. |
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| 1961 | All $1 Bills Printed This Date Forward Bear the National Motto "In God We Trust" |
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| 1963 | 16th St. Baptist Church Bombed in Birmingham, Alabama: 4 African-American Girls Die |
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| 1964 | England's Sun Newspaper Is First Published |
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| Two New Members of the Tuskegee City Council Are the First African Americans Elected in Alabama Since Reconstruction |
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| 1968 | An Wang Obtains a Patent for a Basic Calculating Component of Computer Technology |
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| A Molotov Cocktail Is Thrown at the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) Building on the Campus of the University of Delaware |
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| 1971 | Environmental Organization Greenpeace Is Founded in Vancouver, Canada |
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| 1978 | German Terror Suspect Is Arrested in London |
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| 1982 | Black September Seizes Egyptian Embassy, Madrid |
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| Israeli Army Reoccupies West Beirut, Killing 88 People, Wounding 254 |
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| Iran's Former Foreign Minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Executed for Treason |
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| 1983 | Raymond Carver's Third Major-Press Book of Stories, Cathedral, Is Published |
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| The First Costco Discount Warehouse Opens in Seattle, Washington |
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| 1985 | Europe Beats the U.S. in the Ryder Cup for First Time in 28 Years |
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| 1986 | Bomb In Paris Main Police Headquarters Kills 1, Wounds 51 |
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| 1990 | Metro Transit Buses Begin Regular Service in the New Downtown Seattle, Washington's Transit Tunnel |
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| 1997 | Sinn Fein Party Participates in Northern Ireland Peace Talks for First Time |
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| FDA Bans Sales of Popular Diet Drugs Fenfluramine & Dexfenfluramine |
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| 1998 | Jupiter's Rings Theorized to Be Dust from Cosmic Collisions with Jupiter Moons |
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| 2001 | President Bush Identifies Osama bin Laden as Prime Suspect 9-11 Attacks |
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