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 Dr. Gloria Rodriguez Born 1948 [HHAF]
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 Sandra Benítez Born 1941 [HHAF]
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 Juan D. Gonzalez Born 1947 [HHAF]
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 John Leguizamo Born 1964 [HHAF]
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 Narciso Rodriguez Born 1964 [HHAF]
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 Andrés Cantor [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
Good Luck! |
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  Use all of these letters to spell the name of a performing artist born on this date:
CLONED MAN |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a Jennifer Owings Dewey book (according to Boyds Mill Press):
JAM US ROME VAN |
(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 Wallace Stevens:
IM MAN HOUR |
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World Farm Animals Day
(Observed annually on October 2 since 1983 in honor of Mohandas Gandhi) |
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Guinea: Independence Day
(Commemoration of independence from France 10/02/1958) |
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India: Gandhi Jayanti (Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday)
(Commemorates the birth of Mohandas Gandhi born 10/02/1869) |
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| 1939 | Otto R. Salassi (Mississippi-born Children's Author) |
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| 1941 | Jeanne Betancourt (Vermont-born Children's Author) |
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| Jennifer Owings Dewey (Chicago-born Children's Science Author) |
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| 1879 | Wallace Stevens (Pennsylvania-born Poet) |
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| 1904 | Graham Greene (English Novelist) |
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| 1910 | Lauren Kephart Soth (Iowa-born 1956 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Editorial Writing) |
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| 1921 | Edmund Crispin (English Writer) |
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| 1948 | Donna Karan (New York-born Fashion Designer) |
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| 1949 | Annie Leibovitz (Connecticut-born Photographer) |
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| 1893 | Leroy Shield (Minnesota-born Composer, Pianist) |
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| 1935 | Robert Lawrence (Chicago-born Test Pilot: First African-American Selected for Astronaut Training) |
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| 1852 | William Ramsay (Scottish-born 1904 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) |
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| 1901 | Charles Stark Draper (Missouri-born Weapons Inertial Navigation Engineer) |
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| 1851 | Ferdinand Foch (French Army General) |
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| 1452 | Richard III (King of England) |
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| 1538 | Saint Charles Borromeo (Italian Roman Catholic Bishop) |
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| 1781 | William Wyatt Bibb (Virginia-born Statesman: Namesake of Bibb Counties in Georgia and Alabama) |
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| 1800 | Nat Turner (Virginia-born African-American Slave; Rebellion Leader) |
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| 1847 | Paul von Hindenburg (German Military Officer and President) |
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| 1849 | Daniel Ringo (Kentucky-born First Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court) |
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| 1869 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Indian Rights Leader) |
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| 1871 | Cordell Hull (Tennessee-born American Diplomat) |
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| 1885 | Ruth Bryan Owen (Illinois-born: Florida's First Female Representative in Congress) |
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| 1910 | James V. Carmichael (Georgia-born Legislator, Businessman, Educational Leader) |
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| 1937 | Johnnie Cochran (Louisiana-born African-American Trial Lawyer) |
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| 1890 | Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (New York City-born Comedian; "The Marx Brothers") |
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| 1895 | William "Bud" Abbott (New Jersey-born Comedian) |
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| 1922 | Moses Gunn (Missouri-born African-American Actor) |
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| 1928 | George "Spanky" McFarland (Texas-born Child Film Star; Member of "Our Gang") |
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| 1945 | Don McLean (New York-born Popular Musician) |
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| 1951 | Sting (Popular English Musician) |
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| 1970 | Kelly Ripa (New Jersey-born Actress, Television Personality) |
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| 1932 | Maury Wills (Washington, D.C.-born African-American Major League Baseball) |
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| 1264 | Pope Urban IV (French-born Roman Catholic Pope) |
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| 1780 | John André (British Officer Hanged as a Spy for Benedict Arnold) |
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| 1803 | Samuel Adams (Massachusetts-born Patriot; Signer of the Declaration of Independence) |
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| 1927 | Svante Arrhenius (Swedish Chemist; 1903 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) |
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| 1985 | Rock Hudson (Illinois-born Actor; AIDS) |
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| 1998 | Gene Autry (Texas-born Country & Western Singer, Actor) |
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| 2005 | Nipsey Russell (Georgia-born African-American Comedian, Actor) |
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| 1187 | Muslim General Saladin Captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders |
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| 1535 | Jacques Cartier Climbs and Names Canada's Mount Réal (Mount Royal) Which Will Become Montreal |
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| 1780 | British Spy John André Is Hanged |
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| 1811 | At Oregon's Port of Astoria, the 25-Ton Schooner Dolly Is Launched as the First Vessel Built on the Columbia River |
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| 1818 | The Potawatomi Indians Relinquish Much of Their Indiana Land in Exchange for an Annual Payment of $2,500 U.S. Dollars |
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| 1820 | The Arkansas General Assembly Holds Its Final Session at Arkansas Post |
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| 1821 | Indiana's First State Prison Opens in Jeffersonville |
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| 1835 | The Texas Revolution Begins |
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| 1836 | Charles Darwin Returns to Falmouth, England, After Five-Year Expedition Aboard the HMS Beagle |
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| 1849 | California's Great Seal Is Adopted by the Constitutional Convention at Monterey |
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| Johann Strauss, Jr., Takes Over His Father's Orchestra, One Week After His Father's Death |
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| 1861 | The First Train of the Wisconsin Central Railroad Runs Between Menasha and Waupaca |
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| Future Delaware Congressman, Edward Martin, Is Arrested on Suspicion of Being a Traitor to the Union |
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| 1862 | Federal Troops Attacks Confederate Emplacements at St. Johns Bluff Near Jacksonville, Florida |
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| 1863 | A Federal Detachment Attacks Salt Works Near Florida's St. George's Sound |
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| Ojibwe Sign the Old Crossing Treaty, Ceding to the U.S. Government 3 Million Acres of Land in the Red River Valley |
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| 1864 | Confederates Are Victorious at the Battle of Saltville, Virginia |
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| 1867 | Oct 1-4, African-American Men Vote for First Time in an Alabama Statewide Election |
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| Storer College in Harpers Ferry Opens as West Virginia's First African-American College |
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| 1871 | Brigham Young, 71 year-old Leader of the Mormon Church, Is Arrested for Polygamy |
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| 1873 | The Cornerstone Is Laid for Michigan's New State Capitol |
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| 1874 | Green Cove Springs, Florida Is Incorporated |
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| 1884 | In Wisconsin, Near Washburn and Bayfield, a Large Log dam Burst, Destroying Two Wagon Bridges and a Railroad Track |
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| 1894 | A Tornado Kills 4 in Little Rock, Arkansas |
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| 1897 | George Washington Bright Is Hired as First African-American Member of the Los Angeles Fire Department |
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| 1898 | Hurricane Knocks Georgia's Sapelo Island Lighthouse Out of Commission for 100 Years |
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| 1900 | Florida's First Law School, Stetson University College of Law, Opens in Deland |
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| William Jennings Bryan Speaks in St. Peter, Minnesota |
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| The St. Paul Dispatch Runs a Photo of all Motorized Vehicles Owned by City Residents: Two Cars and Two Trucks |
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| 1903 | In Alaska, Telegraphic Communication Is Established Between Sitka and Juneau Via Submarine Cable |
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| 1912 | Voters Approve Constitutional Amendment Creating Bleckley County, Georgia |
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| 1919 | Three Days of Deadly Race Riots End in Elaine, Arkansas |
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| President Woodrow Wilson Suffers Paralyzing Stroke |
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| 1920 | Reds & Pirates Play 0nly Triple-Header in Major League History |
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| 1922 | New York Stock Exchange Opens in a New Location |
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| George Sutherland Sworn in as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1937 | Ronald Reagan Makes His Film Debut in Love Is on the Air |
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| 1941 | Germans Launch Operation Typhoon Surge to Moscow |
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| 1942 | Japanese Ship 200 Americans ("The Lost Battalion") to Singapore as Prisoners of War |
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| 1944 | Surviving Polish Rebels Surrender to Nazi Forces to End the Warsaw Uprising |
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| 1948 | New York's Watkins Glen International Hosts Its First Grand Prix Races |
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| 1950 | Charles Schulz' Peanuts Comic Strip Begins National Syndication in Seven Newspapers |
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| 1958 | Guinea Gains Independence from France |
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| 4,000 Members of the United Auto Workers in Janesville, Wisconsin Join a National Strike Against General Motors |
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| 1959 | The First of 154 Episodes of Twilight Zone Airs |
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| 1962 | NASA Launches Explorer 14 to Measure Cosmic-ray Particles and Interplanetary Magnetic Fields |
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| Johnny Carson Debuts as the Host of The Tonight Show |
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| 1963 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream Speech Is Registered with the U.S. Patent Office |
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| 1965 | Phillies Pitcher, Chris Short, Strikes Out 18 New York Mets in 15 Innings |
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| 1966 | NASA Launches ESSA 3 Meteorological Satellite to Record Daytime Earth Cloud Cover |
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| 1967 | Thurgood Marshall Is Sworn in as the First African-American Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1968 | 25 Die in Mexico City Student Riot |
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| U.S. Congress Passes the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act |
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| President Lyndon Johnson Signs Bill Creating 504,000-acre North Cascades National Park |
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| 1972 | First Day of Classes at the University of North Florida |
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| 1974 | Researchers Link Smoking Marijuana to Brain Damage |
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| 1975 | Retail Giant, W.T. Grant, Files for Bankruptcy |
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| 1983 | In Jefferson, Wisconsin, Ground Is Broken for an Addition to St. Coletta School for Developmentally Disabled People |
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| 1984 | Ground Is Broken for the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia |
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| 1987 | 5.4. Magnitude Earthquake Kills Three in Peru |
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| 1993 | Demonstrators Backing Rebel Ministers of Parliament Clash with Russian Police |
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| 1995 | South Africa's Human Rights Commission Meets for the First Time |
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| 2001 | Washington's Cedar River Watershed Education Center is dedicated |
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