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 Anthony Quinn Born 1915 [HHAF]
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 Dolores Huerta Born 1930 [HHAF]
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 Cruz Reynoso Born 1931 [HHAF]
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 Oscar Hijuelos Born 1951 [HHAF]
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 Sammy Sosa Born 1968 [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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Tell Us about your most memorable teacher. |
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Today's 5-Minute Quest
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  Use all of these letters to spell the name of a performing artist born on this date:
VILLA DUNES |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a book by Kate Douglas Wiggin (according to James Madison University):
MARS MAIL |
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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 an 1830 work by Prosper Mérimée (according to the Authors' Calendar):
RELIED CATARACT TRIP |
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World Rabies Day
(Observed annually on this date since 2008) |
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Czech Republic: Statehood Day
(Observed annually on the feast day of St. Wenceslaus - Patron Saint of the Czech Republic) |
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Taiwan: Teacher's Day
(Annual national holiday on 09/28, recognized in Taiwan as Confucius' birthday) |
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| 1856 | Kate Douglas Wiggin (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author) |
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| 1946 | Barbara Samuels (American Children's Author) |
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| 1803 | Prosper Mérimée (French Dramatist, Historian, Archaeologist and Short Story Writer) |
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| 1892 | Elmer Rice (New York City-born Playwright, Director and Novelist) |
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| 1950 | John Sayles (New York-born Author, Filmmaker) |
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| 1909 | Al Capp (Connecticut-born Cartoonist: Li'l Abner) |
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| 1917 | Michael Somes (English Ballet Dancer) |
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| 1698 | Pierre-Louis Maupertuis (French Mathematician, Biologist and Astronomer) |
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| 1789 | Richard Bright (English Physician, Pioneer Kidney Expert) |
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| 1852 | Ferdinand-Frédéric-Henri Moissan (French-born 1906 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) |
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| 1925 | Seymour Cray (Wisconsin-born Supercomputer Inventor) |
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| 1901 | William Paley (Chicago-born Founder of CBS) |
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| 1785 | David Walker (North Carolina-born African-American Abolitionist) |
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| 1802 | Elias Rector (Virginia-born U.S. Marshall and Director of Indian Affairs in Arkansas) |
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| 1839 | Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (New York-born Temperance Crusader and Women's Suffrage Leader) |
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| 1841 | Georges Clemenceau (French Statesman; Premier of the Third Republic: 1917-20) |
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| Francis P. Fleming (15th Governor of Florida: 1889-1893) |
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| 1871 | Frederick Preston Cone (27th Governor of Florida: 1937-1941) |
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| 1927 | Jo Ann Davidson (First Woman to Become Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives) |
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| 1935 | Joan Grove (First Woman in Minnesota to be Elected to State Office (Secretary of State) without Having First Been Appointed to That Office) |
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| 1915 | Ethel Rosenberg (New York City-born Convicted Spy of American Atomic Secrets) |
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| 1864 | Richard Harrison (Canadian-born African-American Actor) |
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| 1902 | Ed Sullivan (New York City-born Journalist, Television Host) |
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| 1916 | Peter Finch (English Actor) |
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| 1924 | Marcello Mastroianni (Italian Actor) |
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| 1934 | Brigitte Bardot (French Actress) |
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| 1964 | Janeane Garofalo (New Jersey-born Actress) |
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| 1967 | Mira Sorvino (New Jersey-born Actress) |
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| 1968 | Naomi Watts (English Actress) |
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| 1973 | Gwyneth Paltrow (Los Angeles-born Actress) |
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| 1887 | Avery Brundage (Detroit-born President of the International Olympic Committee: 1952-72) |
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| 1913 | Alice Marble (California-born Member of the Tennis Hall of Fame) |
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| 1919 | Tom Harmon (Indiana-born 1940 Heisman Trophy Winner) |
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| 929 | Wenceslaus (Duke of Bohemia: Patron Saint of the Czech Republic) |
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| 1891 | Herman Melville (New York City-born Author of Moby Dick |
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| 1895 | Louis Pasteur (French-born Chemist) |
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| 1917 | Elizabeth Scott Neblett (Mississippi-born Civil War Diarist) |
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| 1938 | Charles Edgar Duryea (Illinois-born Automobile Inventor) |
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| 1953 | Edwin Hubble (Missouri-born American Astronomer) |
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| Daniel Thomas McCarty (31st Governor of Florida: 1953) |
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| 1954 | George Harrison Shull (Ohio-born Botanist, Geneticist) |
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| 1989 | Ferdinand E. Marcos (Former President of the Republic of the Philippines) |
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| 1991 | Miles Davis (Illinois-born African-American Jazz Trumpet Player) |
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| 2000 | Pierre Trudeau (Former Canadian prime minister) |
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| 2002 | Patsy Mink (12-Term Democratic Congresswoman from Hawaii) |
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| 929 | Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia, Is Murdered by Knights Loyal to His Brother |
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| 1066 | William the Conqueror Lands in Britain, Beginning the Norman Conquest |
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| 1542 | Portuguese Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo Sails into San Diego Bay |
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| 1634 | John Milton's Drama, Comus, Is Performed |
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| 1745 | 'God Save the King' Is Sung for the First Time At London's Drury Lane Theatre |
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| 1781 | American Forces and French Fleet Begin Siege of Yorktown Heights, VA |
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| 1787 | Congress Votes to Send New Constitution to State Legislatures for Approval |
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| 1804 |
 Clark: Made many attemps in different ways to find our Anchor but could not, the Sand had Covered it, from the misfortune of last night our boat was laying at Shore in a verry unfavourable Situation, after finding that the anchor Could not be found we deturmined to proceed on, with great difficuelty got the Chiefs out of our boat, and when we was about Setting out the Class Called the Soldiers took possession of the Cable
the 1s Chief which was Still on board & intended to go a Short distance up with us, I told him the men of his nation Set on the Cable, he went out & told Capt Lewis who was at the bow the men who Set on the Roap was Soldiers and wanted Tobacco, Capt. L. Said would not agree to be forced into any thing, the 2d Chief after much difucelty—which had nearly reduced us to hostility I threw a Carot of Tobacco to 1s Chief Spoke the Chief gives the Tobaco to his Soldiers & he jurked the rope from them and handed it to the bows man
we then Set out under a Breeze from the S. E. about 2 miles up we observed the 3rd Chief on Shore beckining to us we took him on board he informed us the roap was held by the order of the 2d Chief who was we Sent by him a talk to the nation Stateent the Cause of our hoisting the red flag undr. the white, if they were for peace Stay at home & do as we had Derected them, if the were for war ore were Deturmined to Stop us we were ready to defend our Selves,
we halted one houre & ½ on the S. S. & made a Substitute of Stones for a ancher, refreshed our men and proceeded on about 2 miles higher up & came too a verry Small Sand bar in the middle of the river & Stayed all night, I am Verry unwelle for want of Sleep Deturmined to Sleep to night if possible, the men Cooked & we |
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Clark: Our men nearly all Complaining of ther bowels, a heaviness at the Stomach & Lax, Some of those taken first getting better, a number of Indians about us gazeing &c. &c. This day proved verry worm and Sultery, nothing killed men complaining of their diat of fish & roots. all that is able working at the Canoes,
Several Indians leave us to day, the raft continue on down the river, one old man informed us that he had
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| 1810 | Miguel Hidalgo Leads 50,000 Troops in Attack on the City of Guanajuato |
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| 1829 | Abolitionist David Walker Publishes the First Edition of His Appeal |
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| 1831 | Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer Is First Published as a Daily Newspaper |
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| 1835 | New Mexico's Governor Orders Land Parcels in the Mora Valley be Distributed to 75 Families Willing to Settle There |
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| 1853 | The First Union Depot in the United States Opens in Indianapolis |
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| 1859 | Mexican Nationalist, Juan Cortina, Seizes Control of Brownsville, Texas |
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| 1860 | Three Pro-Slavery Sympathizers Raise a Secessionist Flag in Stockton, California |
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| 1863 | Union Generals McCook and Crittenden Accountable for Chickamauga Blunders |
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| 1865 | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Is First Female Licensed Physician in Britain. |
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| 1868 | Whites Attack on Black News Editor in Opelousas, Louisiana Sparks Deadly Violence |
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| 1879 | The Moses Montefiore Society is the First Jewish Organization in Delaware |
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| 1889 | State of Georgia Makes January 19, Robert E. Lee's Birth Date, a State Holiday |
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| 1895 | Three Black Baptist Organizations Unite to Form National Baptist Convention |
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| 1901 | King C. Gillette Founds the American Razor Company |
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| 1908 | Republican Presidential Candidate William Howard Taft Makes a Whistle-Stop Campaign Tour through Minnesota |
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| 1912 | William Christopher Handy's "Memphis Blues" Is First Published |
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| 1918 | Igor Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale" for Narrator and Seven Instruments Is Premiered in Lausanne, Switzerland |
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| 1920 | Eight Chicago White Sox Players Are Indicted for "Fixing" the 1919 World's Series |
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| 1922 | The First Books Are Added to the Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska Fairbanks |
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| 1924 | Two Army Planes Land in Seattle to Complete the First Round-the-World-Flight (175 d) |
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| 1937 | President Franklin Roosevelt Visits the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River |
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| 1939 | Soviet Union and Germany Agree to Partition Plan for Poland |
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| 1940 | Michigan's Tom Harmon Makes TD Runs of 94, 86, 70 & 7 yds Against Cal |
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| 1941 | Ted Williams Goes 6-8 in Doubleheader to Finish Season with .406 Average |
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| 1942 | Australians Recapture Ioribaiwa village and Eorbaiwa Ridge, New Guinea |
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| 1948 | The Freedom Train Stops in Bluefield, West Virginia |
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| 1951 | "The Day the Earth Stood Still" Is Released Across the U.S. |
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| 1953 | Charley Eugene Johns Becomes the 32nd Governor of Florida on the Death of Governor Daniel Thomas McCarty |
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| Life Magazine Article Features the Northwest School of American Painters |
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| 1955 | The Final Baseball Game Is Played in Minneapolis' Nicollet Park |
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| 1958 | 40-year-old Ted Williams Goes 2-4 to Win 6th AL Batting Title (.328 average) |
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| 1959 | Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev and American President Dwight Eisenhower Offer Views on Summit Meeting |
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| 1960 | Ted Williams Hits a Home Run in His Final Major League At-bat |
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| 1961 | "Purlie Victorious" by Ossie Davis, Opens on Broadway |
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| 1962 | 100-mph Tornado Hits the Sand Point Area of Seattle as the First Confirmed Tornado in Western Washington |
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| 1964 | Warren Commission Concludes Kennedy Assassination Not a Conspiracy |
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| 1965 | "Freedom Flights" Begin Between Cuba and Florida, Bringing a Second Round of Cuban Immigrants to the U.S. |
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| 1966 | In Gainesville, Florida, Santa Fe Junior College Opens Its Doors to the First Students |
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| 1967 | Walter Washington Takes Office as First Mayor of the District of Columbia |
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| 1968 | Beatles' "Hey Jude" Longest Record to Reach #1 (7+ minutes) |
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| 1969 | Jack Kerouac's Article "After Me, the Deluge" Appears in the Chicago Tribune |
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| 1972 | Japan and Communist China Agree to Re-establish Diplomatic Relations |
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| 1984 | Court Rules British Miners' Strike to be Unlawful |
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| 1987 | National Museum of African Art Moves to New Facility on the National Mall |
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| 1988 | President Reagan Signs Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement into Law |
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| Orel Hershiser Extends His Consecutive Shutout Innings Record to 59 |
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| 1991 | Hammering Man, a 22,000-Pound 48"-Tall Sculpture, Is Damaged While Being Installed in Seattle, Washington |
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| 1994 | Estonia Ferry Sinks in the Baltic Sea with 950 People on Board |
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| 1995 | Israel and PLO Agree to Transfer Much of West Bank Control to Arab Residents |
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| 2002 | Iraq Rejects U.N. Plan to Disarm and Open Palaces for Weapons Searches |
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| Tom Wright, Clarence Carter, the Harmonnners & TLC Inducted into Georgia Music Hall of Fame |
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