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 Carmen Delgado-Votaw Born 1935 [HHAF]
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 Isabel Allende Born 1942 [HHAF]
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 Frederico F. Peña Born 1947 [HHAF]
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 Jimmy Smits Born 1955 [HHAF]
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 Bobby Bonilla Born 1963 [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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Today's 5-Minute Quest
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Use all of these letters to spell the name of a children's author/illustrator born on this date.
WE CAN JAR |
Use all of these letters to spell the name of a scientist, mathematician or inventor born on this date:
ORDNO ALAMO CAGER |
(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 work by F. Scott Fitzgerald:
RAN DREW MITES |
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 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Born on This Date in 1825 [University of Virginia]
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 F. Scott Fitzgerald Born on This Date 1896 [Princeton University]
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 Severo Ochoa Born on This Date 1905 [Nobel Foundation]
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 Wilson Rawls Born on This Date 1913 [Educational Paperback Association]
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 Jim Henson Born on This Date 1936 [University of Mississippi]
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Cambodia: Constitution and Coronation Day
(Commemoration of the re-coronation of King Sihanouk: 9/23/1993) |
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New Caledonia: New Caledonia Day
(Commemoration of the French claim on New Caledonia: 09/24/1853) |
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Republic of Guinea-Bissau: Independence Day
(Commemoration of independence declared on 9/24/1973) |
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South Africa: Heritage Day
(Recognition of South African culture observed since 09/24/1995 ) |
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Trinidad Tobago: Republic Day
(Observed annually to commemorate the first meeting of Parliament on this date under the new Republican Constitution) |
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United States National Punctuation Day
(Observed annually on this date since 2004) |
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| 1862 | L. Leslie Brooke (English Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1898 | Harry Behn (Arizona-born Children's Author) |
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| 1902 | Harold Coy (California-born Children's Author) |
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| 1912 | Ian Serraillier (English Children's Author) |
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| 1913 | Wilson Rawls (Oklahoma-born Children's Author) |
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| 1925 | Jan Carew (Guyanan Children's Author) |
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| 1932 | Jane Curry (Ohio-born Children's Author) |
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| 1936 | Jane Cutler (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1717 | Horace Walpole (English Writer) |
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| 1825 | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Maryland-born African-American Poet) |
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| 1854 | Hans P. N. Gammel (Danish-American Legal Historian) |
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| 1890 | A. P. Herbert (English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Politician) |
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| 1896 | F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald (Minnesota-born Novelist) |
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| 1901 | John Faulkner (Mississippi-born Fiction Writer, Brother of William Faulkner) |
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| 1945 | Eavan Boland (Irish Poet) |
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| Lou Dobbs (Texas-born Broadcast Journalist) |
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| 1848 | Edward A. Bromley (Connecticut-born Photographer; the First Regular Newspaper Staff Photographer in the U.S.) |
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| 1954 | Patrick Kelly (Mississippi-born Artist) |
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| 1932 | Svetlana Beriosova (Lithuanian Prima Ballerina) |
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| 1501 | Gerolamo Cardano Italian Mathematician) |
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| 1870 | Georges Claude (French Inventor of the Neon Lamp) |
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| 1891 | William F(rederick) Friedman (Russian Cryptologist) |
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| 1894 | E. Franklin Frazier (Maryland-born African-American Sociologist) |
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| 1895 | André F. Cournand (French-born 1956 Nobel Laureate for Medicine) |
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| 1898 | Howard Walter Florey (Australian Biochemist; 1945 Nobel Laureate for Medicine or Physiology) |
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| 1900 | Stephen Bechtel (Indiana-born Engineer, Business Leader, Founder of Bechtel Corporation) |
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| 1905 | Severo Ochoa (Spanish Biochemist; 1959 Nobel Laureate for Medicine or Physiology) |
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| 1907 | John R. Dunning (Nebraska-born Physicist) |
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| 1837 | Mark Hanna (Ohio-born Industrialist, Political Kingmaker) |
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| 1827 | Henry Slocum (New York-born Civil War Union General) |
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| 1625 | Johan de Witt (Dutch Statesman, Political Leader of Holland: 1653-72) |
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| 1755 | John Marshall (Virginia-born Congressman, Secretary of State, 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1898 | Robert Blue (Governor of Iowa) |
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| 1911 | Konstantin Chernenko (Soviet Union President) |
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| 1934 | Arne Carlson (New York City-born 37th Governor of Minnesota) |
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| 1923 | Theodore "Fats" Navarro (Florida-born African-American Jazz Trumpeter) |
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| 1924 | Theresa Merritt (Virginia-born African-American Singer, Actress) |
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| 1936 | Jim Henson (Mississippi-born Puppeteer; Creator of the Muppets) |
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| 1948 | Phil Hartman (Canadian Comedic Actor) |
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| 1946 | "Mean" Joe Greene (Texas-born African-American Member of the Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1919 | William Harrell Felton (Georgia-born Doctor, Politician, Minister) |
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| 1945 | Hans Geiger (German Inventor of the Geiger Counter) |
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| 1991 | Theodor Seuss Geisel (Massachusetts-born Children's Author; Dr. Seuss) |
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| 622 | The Prophet Muhammad Completes His Flight from Mecca to Medina to Escape Persecution |
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| 1789 | Congress Creates the U.S. Supreme Court and Office of the Attorney General |
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| 1804 |
 Clark: Set out early a fair day the wind from the E, pass the mouth of Creek on the L. S. called Creek on high water; passed a large Island on the L. S. about 2 miles & ½ long on which Colter had Camped & Killed 4 Elk, the wind fair from the S. E. we prepared Some Clothes and a few meadels for the Chiefs of the Teton's hand of Seaux which we expect to See to day at the next river, observe a Great Deel of Stone on the Sides of the hills on the S. S. we Saw one Hare to day, prepared all things for action in Case of necessity, our perogues went to the Island for the meet, Soon after the man on Shore run up the bank and reported that the Indians had Stolen the horse we Soon after met 5 Inds. and ankered out Some distance & Spoke to them informed them we were friends, & wished to Continue So but were not afraid of any Indians, Some of their young men had taken the horse Sent by their Great father for ther Chief and we would not Speek to them untill the horse was returned to us again. passed a Island on the S. S. on which we Saw Several Elk, about 1½ miles long Called Good Humoured Islds. Came to about 1½ miles above off the mouth of a Small river about 70 yards wide Called by Mr. Evins the Little Mississou The Tribes of the Scouix Called the Teton, is Camped about 2 miles up on the N W Side and we Shall Call the River after that nation, Teton This river is 70 yards wide at the mouth of water, and has a considerable Current we anchored off the mouth— the french Perogue Come up early in the day, the other did not get up untill in the evening Soon after we had Came too. I went & Smoked with the Chief who Came to See us here all well, we prepare to Speek with the Indians tomorrow at which time we are informed the Indians will be here, The French man who had for Some time been Sick, began to blead which allarmed him— ? of our party Camped on board The remainder with the Guard on Shore. |
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Clark: I sleped but little last night however we rose early and Commencd wrighting our letters Capt. Lewis wrote one to the presidend and I wrote Govr. Harrison & my friends in Kentucky and Sent of George Drewyer with those letters to Kahoka & delivered them to Mr. Hays &. [Clark's letter to his relatives in Kentucky was probably intended for publication, and was in fact the first published report of the expedition. Lewis actually composed the first draft, which Clark copied.] we dined with Mr. Chotoux to day, and after dinner went to a Store and purchased Some Clothes, which we gave to a Tayler and derected to be made. Capt Lewis in opening his trunk found all his papers wet, and Some Seeds spoiled |
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| 1830 | More Than 1,000 Spectators Attend a Public Hanging in Detroit, Michigan |
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| 1847 | Merriam Brothers Publish First Edition of American Dictionary of the English Language |
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| 1852 | Henri Giffard First Demonstrates the Dirigible with Flight from Paris to Trappe |
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| 1857 | The First Sheboygan County Cheese Award Is Won by N.C. Harmon of Lyman, Wisconsin |
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| 1862 | President Lincoln Suspends Writ of Habeas Corpus for Disloyal Rebels and Insurgents |
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| Large Crowd with Band and Speeches Serenades President Lincoln in Honor of the Emancipation Proclamation |
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| 1863 | President Issues Proclamation Opening Port of Alexandria, Virginia |
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| 1864 | More Than 1,400 Union Soldiers Are Taken Prisoner When They Surrender a Fort on Coleman Hill Near Athens, Alabama |
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| 1867 | In the First Minnesota State Baseball Championship, the St. Paul North Stars Beat the Hastings Vermillion 43-35 |
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| 1869 | Robber Barons Attempt to Corner Gold and Send Markets into Panic |
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| 1876 | Temple Beth El Congregation, Florida's Oldest Jewish Congregation, Is Founded at Pensacola |
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| 1877 | Fire Destroys Many Models at the U.S. Patent Office, But Important Records Are Saved |
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| The Satsuma Rebellion of Discontented Samurai Is Crushed by Conscript Army Forces in Japan |
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| 1878 | African-American Inventor, W.R. Davis, Receives a Patent for a Library Table |
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| 1886 | Dr. Justus Ohage Performs the Nation's First Successful Gall Bladder Surgery at St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul |
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| 1889 | A Female Seminary Opens in Decatur, Georgia with an Initial Student Body 60 Women |
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| 1890 | Mormon Church Formally Renounces Polygamy |
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| 1891 | Sarah Bernhardt Performs in Seattle, Washington |
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| 1894 | The First Washington State Agricultural Fair Opens in Yakima |
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| 1903 | In Texas, the Gulf and Inter-State (G&I) Railway Completes Its First Passenger Run from Beaumont to Port Bolivar |
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| 1904 | Up to 113 People Die in the New Market, Tennessee Train Crash |
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| 1908 | The First Factory-Built Model-T Is Completed |
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| 1914 | Germans Occupy St. Mihiel in Alsace-Lorraine Area |
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| 1918 | Bulgaria Seeks Ceasefire with the Allied Powers |
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| President Woodrow Wilson Establishes the Katmai National Monument in Alaska |
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| 1920 | "In Morocco" by Edith Wharton Is Published by Scribner's, New York |
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| 1929 | Jimmy Doolittle Pilots First All-instrument Flight over New York's Mitchel Field |
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| 1934 | Babe Ruth Retires from Baseball |
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| 1937 | In Washington, the Lincoln County Fair Resumes in Davenport After a 23-Year Hiatus |
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| 1938 | California's Don Budge Is the First to Win the Tennis Grand Slam |
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| 1941 | The Japanese Government Instructs Its Consul in Hawaii to Identify the Locations of U.S Battleships at Pearl Harbor |
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| 1948 | Mildred Gillars Pleads Innocent as Nazi Radio Propagandist ''Axis Sally'' |
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| Honda Motor Company Opens |
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| 1952 | Eisenhower and Nixon Meet in Wheeling, West Virginia to Determine If Nixon Will Remain as the Republican Candidate for Vice President |
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| 1955 | President Eisenhower Suffers a Heart Attack While On Vacation in Denver |
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| 1957 | The Brooklyn Dodgers Play Their Last Game at Ebbetts Field Defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0 |
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| 1960 | The U.S. Launches the Enterprise: the First Nuclear Aircraft Carrier |
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| 1961 | The Final Episode of I Love Lucy Airs |
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| 1962 | Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto Is Premiered at Lincoln Center in New York City |
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| 1963 | At the University of Minnesota at Duluth, President John Kennedy Speaks on the High Unemployment in the Great Lakes Region |
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| Mayor Victor Schiro Refuses to Meet with Civil Rights Leaders in New Orleans |
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| 1964 | President Johnson Receives a Copy of the Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President Kennedy |
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| The Puget Sound Ferry Chippewa Ends 64 Years of Service |
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| 1966 | Hurricane Inez Causes Mudslides and Floods on the Island of Guadeloupe, Killing 23 People and Nearly Destroying the Island's Banana Crop |
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| 1968 | 60 Minutes Debuts on CBS |
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| 1969 | Chicago 8 Go On Trial for Demonstrations During the Democratic National Convention |
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| "A Sweet Devouring" by Eudora Welty Is Published by Albondocani Press, New York |
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| 1973 | Portuguese Guinea Declares Independence from Portugal |
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| 1975 | Dougal Haston and Doug Scott Are the First Britons to Reach the Summit of Mount Everest |
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| 1976 | The Rhodesian (Zimbabwe) Government Announces White Minority Rule Will End Within Two Years |
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| Newspaper Heiress Patty Hearst Is Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison |
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| 1977 | The Love Boat Debuts on ABC |
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| 1980 | Iraqi Planes Bomb Iran, Setting Afire Kharg Island Crude Oil Export Terminal |
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| 1981 | Armenian Terrorists Storm French Consulate in Turkey: 1 killed, hostages taken |
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| NASA Launches SBS 2 (Satellite Business Systems 2) to Support Private Business Networks |
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| 1987 | South Africa's Congress of Traditional Leaders Is Launched |
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| 1988 | Canadian Sprinter Ben Johnson Wins the Olympic 100M Gold Medal That Will Be Returned When He Tests Positive for Performance Enhancing Drugs |
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| Jackie Joyner-Kersee Sets a World Record of 7,291 Points Winning Olympic Gold in the Heptathlon |
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| 1989 | Broadway Theaters Dim Their Lights in Honor of the Death of Composer Irving Berlin |
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| 1990 | South African President F. W. de Klerk Arrives in the U.S. to Try to Convince President George Bush to Remove Economic Sanctions |
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| Winnie Mandela Is Formally Charged with Four Counts of Kidnapping and of Assault |
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| 1993 | Nelson Mandela Asks That World Economic Sanctions Be Lifted Against South Africa |
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| Norodom Sihanouk Is Reinstalled as King of Cambodia |
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| 1995 | Israel Vacates the West Bank After Three Decades of Occupation |
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| 1996 | President Clinton Signs Comprehensive Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons & Testing |
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| Stephen King Releases Two Books: Desperation under His Name and The Regulators under His Richard Bachman Pseudonym |
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| 1997 | Singer Brenda Lee Is Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee |
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| 1998 | The U.S. Releases Harder-to-Counterfeit $20 Bills |
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| 2000 | Citizens of the Yugoslavia Federation Hold First Democratic Presidential Elections |
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| 2009 | NASA Announces the Discovery of Water on the Moon |
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| United Nations Security Council Unanimously Passes Resolution Enouraging All Nations to Dismantle Nuclear Arsenals |
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