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![]() Nilo Cruz Born 1961 [South Coast Repertory] |
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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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Fiji: Independence Day
(Commemoration of independence from Great Britain: 10/10/1970) |
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Finland: Aleksis Kivi Birthday
(School holiday in celebration of the birth date of author Aleksis Kivi: 10/10/1834) |
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Kenya: Moi Day
(Celebration of Daniel Arap Moi becoming President of Kenya: 10/1978) |
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Taiwan: National Day
(Observed in commemoration of the 10/10/1911 start of revolution that toppled the Manchu dynasty) |
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Oklahoma: Historical Day
(Observed in commemoration of the birth date of Pierre Chouteau, Sr.: 10/10/1758) |
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1941 | Ken Saro-Wiwa (Nigerian Children's Author, Rights Activist) |
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1946 | James Marshall (Texas-born Children's Author) |
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Robert D. San Souci (San Francisco-born Children's Author) |
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1948 | Evelyn Gallardo (Los Angeles-born Photographer, Children's Author) |
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1834 | Aleksis Kivi (Finnish Author) |
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1892 | Ivo Andric (Yugoslavian-born 1961 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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1908 | R.K. Narayan (Indian Author) |
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1913 | Claude Simon (French-born 1985 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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1917 | Robert N. Dow, Jr., (Florida-born Journalist; Managing Editor of the Jacksonville Journal ) |
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1924 | James Clavell (Australian Author) |
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1930 | Harold Pinter (English-born 2005 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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1963 | Daniel Pearl (New Jersey-born Journalist) |
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1684 | Jean-Antoine Watteau (French Painter) ) |
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1738 | Benjamin West (Pennsylvania-born Painter) ) |
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1859 | Maurice Prendergast (Canadian-born American Painter) |
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1900 | Alberto Giacometti (Swiss Sculptor) |
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1813 | Giuseppe Fortunino Frencesco Verdi (Italian Composer) |
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1906 | Paul Creston (New York City-born Composer) |
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1938 | Gloria Coates (Wisconsin-born Composer) |
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1731 | Henry Cavendish (English Chemist) |
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1770 | Benjamin Wright (Connecticut-born Engineer; Directed Construction of Erie Canal) |
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1892 | Earle Dickson (Tennessee-born Inventor of the Band-Aid) |
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1908 | Min-Chueh Chang (Chinese Pioneer in Human Anatomy & Reproduction) |
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1936 | Gerhard Ertl (German Physical Chemist; 2007 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) |
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1829 | Dandridge McRae (Arkansas-born Confederate General) |
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1927 | Hazel Johnson (Pennsylvania-born African-American Military Leader) |
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1758 | Pierre Chouteau, Sr. (New Orleans-born Native-American Leader) |
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1825 | Paul Kruger (Former President of South Africa) |
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1830 | Isabella II (Queen of Spain: 1833-1868) |
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1901 | Frederick Patterson (Washington, D.C.-born African-American Founder of the United Negro College Fund) |
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1900 | Helen Hayes (Washington, D.C.-born Actress) |
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1915 | Harry "Sweets" Edison (Ohio-born African-American Jazz Trumpeter) |
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1914 | Dorothy Lamour (New Orleans-born Actress) |
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1917 | Thelonious Monk (North Carolina-born African-American Jazz Pianist, Composer) |
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1926 | Oscar Brown Jr. (Chicago-born African-American Actor, Director, Playwright, Songwriter, Lyricist, Activist, Essayist, Television Host) |
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1941 | Peter Coyote (New York City-born Actor) |
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1946 | Ben Vereen (Florida-born African-American Actor) |
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1954 | David Lee Roth (Indiana-born Popular Musician) |
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1958 | Tanya Tucker (Texas-born Country & Western Singer) |
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1959 | Bradley Whitford (Wisconsin-born Actor) |
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1963 | Rebecca Pidgeon (Massachusetts-born Popular Musician) |
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1920 | Frank Sinkwich (Pennsylvania-born 1942 Heisman Trophy Winner) |
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1937 | Bruce Devlin (Professional Golfer) |
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1969 | Brett Favre (Mississippi-born Professional Football Player) |
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1929 | Elijah McCoy (Canadian-born African-American Inventor) |
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1985 | Orson Welles (Wisconsin-born Actor, Writer, Director: "Citizen Kane") |
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1998 | Clark Clifford (Kansas-born Statesman, U.S. Presidential Advisor) |
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2010 | Solomon Burke (Pennsylvaniai-born African-American Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) |
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1502 | University of Wittenberg, Germany, Opens and Classes Begin |
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1765 | British Take Control of the French Fort de Chartres in the Illinois Territory |
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1774 | The Battle of Point Pleasant Is Fought |
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1794 | Russians Crush Kosciuszko's Rebel Army at Maciejowice, Poland |
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1795 | The United States Mint Hires Its First Two Female Employees |
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1804 | Snow Hurricane Buries Massachusetts |
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1805 | Members of the Corps of Discovery Are the First Euro-Americans to Enter What Will be the State of Washington |
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![]() Clark: a find Morning loaded and Set out at 7 oClock at 2½ miles passed a run on the Stard. Side haveing passed 2 Islands and two bad rapids at 3 miles lower passed a Creek on the Lard. with wide Cotton willow bottoms haveing passed an Island and a rapid an Indian Camp of three Lodgs below the Creek at 8½ miles lower we arrived at the heade of a verry bad riffle at which place we landed near 8 Lodges of Indians on the Lard Side to view the riffle, haveing passed two Islands & six rapids Several of them verry bad— after view'g this riffle two Canoes were taken over verry well; the third Stuck on a rock which took us an hour to get her off which was effected without her receving a greater injurey than a Small Split in her Side which was repared in a Short time, we purchased fish & dogs of those people, dined and proceeded on— here we met with an Indian from the falls at which place he Sais he Saw white people, and expressd an inclination to accompany us, we passd a fiew miles above this riffle 2 Lodges and an Indian batheing in a hot bath made by hot Stones thrown into a pon of water...... at this I can observe at a distance on the lower Stard. Side a high ridge of Thinly timbered Countrey the water of the South fork is a greenish blue, the north as clear as cristial Imediately in the point is an Indian Cabin & in the South fork a Small Island, we came to on the Stard. Side The Indians Came down all the Couses of this river on each Side on horses to view us as we were desending,— The man whome we saw at the ruged rapid and expressed an inclination to accompany us to the great rapids, came up with his Son in a Small Canoe and procisted in his intentions— worthey of remark that not one Stick of timber on the river near the frks and but a fiew trees for a great distance up the River we decended [They had arrived at the junction of the Clearwater and Snake rivers, on the Washington-Idaho boundary, between Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho, and Clarkston, Asotin County, Washington. The captains first called the Snake the Kimooenem, then called it Lewis's River, considering it the continuation of the Lemhi and Salmon river, to which they had given this name] a miss understanding took place between Shabono one of our interpreters, and Jo. & R Fields which appears to have originated in just—
our diet extremely bad haveing nothing but roots and dried fish to eate, all the Party have greatly the advantage of me, in as much as they all relish the flesh of the dogs, Several of which we purchased of the nativs for to add to our Store The Cho-pun-nish or Pierced nose Indians are Stout likeley men, handsom women, and verry dressey in their way, the dress of the men are a white Buffalow robe or Elk Skin dressed with Beeds which are generally white, Sea Shells—i e the Mother of Pirl hung to ther hair & on a pice of otter Skin about their necks hair Cewed in two parsels hanging forward over their Sholders, feathers, and different Coloured Paints which they find in their Countrey Generally white, Green & light Blue. Some fiew were a Shirt of Dressed Skins and long legins, & Mockersons Painted, which appears to be their winters dress, with a plat of twisted grass about their necks The women dress in a Shirt of Ibex, or Goat Skins which reach quite down to their anckles without a girdle, their heads heads are not ornemented, their Shirts are ornemented with quilled Brass, Small peces of Brass Cut into different forms, Beeds, Shells & curios bones &c. The men expose those parts which are generally kept from few by other nations but the women are more perticular than any other nation which I have passed in Screting the parts Their amusements appear but fiew as their Situation requires the utmost exertion to prcure food they are generally employed in that pursute, all the Summer & fall fishing for the Salmon, the winter hunting the deer on Snow Shoes in the plains and takeing care of ther emence numbers of horses, & in the Spring cross the mountains to the Missouri to get Buffalow robes and meet &c. at which time they frequent meet with their enemies & lose their horses & maney of ther people Ther disorders are but fiew. they make great use of Swetting. The hot and cold baethes, They are verry Selfish and Stingey of what they have to eate or ware, and they expect in return Something for everything give as presents or the Survices which they doe let it be however Small, and fail to make those returns on their part.
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1835 | The First Issue of the Telegraph and Texas Register Is First Published |
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1845 | United States Naval Academy Opens for Its First Term |
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1848 | Residents of Santa Fe Meet to Petition the U.S. Congress to Organize a New Mexico Territorial Government |
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1850 | Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Completed: D.C. to Cumberland, MD |
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1851 | Benjamin R. Curtis Is Sworn In As Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court |
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1861 | General Edmund Kirby Smith, a Native of St. Augustine, Is Named to Command the Confederate Districts of Middle and Eastern Florida |
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1862 | The Augustana Synod of the Lutheran Church Gives Permission to Open an Academy That Will Become Gustavus Adolphus College |
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1863 | Denver's First Telegraph Office Opens for Business |
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A Company of 8th U.S. Colored Troops Is Raised in Delaware's Kent and Sussex Counties |
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1864 | Canada's Fathers of Confederation Convene in Quebec City for 17 Days |
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1868 | Cuba Begins 10-year War with Spain When Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Frees His Slaves |
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1877 | Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer Is Buried at West Point, New York |
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1881 | Charles Darwin Publishes Work on Mold and Worms |
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1886 | Tuxedo Dinner Jacket First Worn in America in Tuxedo Park, NY |
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1890 | The First Bloys Camp Meeting Is Held in Skillman's Grove, TX |
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1892 | George Shiras, Jr. Is Sworn In As Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court |
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1896 | Cuban Patriot Leaders L. Figueredo and Martin Herrera Speak at a Benefit Ball for Cuban Refugees in Tampa, Florida |
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1899 | African-American Inventor, I.R. Johnson, Patents a Bicycle Frame |
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1901 | Henry Ford Defeats Alexander Winton in Grosse Point, Michigan Auto Race |
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1905 | President Theodore Roosevelt Designates Passage Key in Florida's Tampa Bay as a Protected Breeding Reservation for Water Birds |
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1908 | Edith Wharton's A Motor-Flight through France Is Published |
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1910 | Charles Evans Hughes Is Sworn In As Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court |
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Forrmer President Theodore Roosevelt Speaks at the Arkansas State Fair in Hot Springs |
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1911 | Revolutionaries Under Sun Yat-sen Overthrow China's Manchu Dynasty |
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California Women Win the Right to Vote |
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Henry Ford Receives Transmission Patent |
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1913 | Via Telegraph, President Wilson Ignites Charge to Join Atlantic & Pacific in Panamá |
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1917 | In Minnesota, the St. Paul Public Library Opens Its New Building |
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1918 | In Minnesota, a Forest Fire Begins That Will Burn 38 Communities and Kill 435 People |
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1923 | Ernest and Hadley Hemingway's First Child, John Hadley Nicanor Is Born |
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A Special Session of the Arkansas General Assembly Passes the Harrelson Road Law Creating a 6,700-mile State Highway System |
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1926 | St. Louis Cardinals Defeat the New York Yankees Game Seven of the World Series |
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1931 | St. Louis Cardinals' Spitball Pitcher Burleigh Grime Beats the Philadelphia Athletics, 4-2, in the 7th Game of the World Series |
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1933 | Waldo Lonsbury Semon Patents Vinyl |
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Western Hemisphere Nations Sign Non-aggression Treaty |
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1935 | George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess Opens on Broadway |
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1938 | Nazi Germany Completes Its Annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland |
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Forest Fire Kills 21 People in Minnesota's Arrowhead Region |
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1943 | Chiang Kai-shek Takes Oath of Office as President of China |
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1944 | 800 Gypsy Children Gassed to Death at Auschwitz |
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1949 | A Wind Storm Sweeps through Minnesota, Causing $10M Damage to Corn Crops and $1M Property Damage in St. Paul |
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1951 | Fire Destroys the Lathrop Building in Cordova, Alaska - a $500,000 Loss |
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1957 | Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is Published |
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President Eisenhower Apologizes to Ghanian Diplomat Refused Restaurant Service in Delaware |
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1963 | Emory Bennett Causeway Opens Across Florida's Indian River |
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Residents of Rock County, Wisconsin Visit Clinics to Receive the Sabin Oral Vaccine Against Polio |
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1965 | The Supremes First Appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
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1966 | The Beach Boys Release "Good Vibrations" |
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1968 | Detroit Tigers Win World Series Game Seven Against St. Louis |
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1970 | Fiji Gains Its Independence from the United Kingdom |
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The FLQ French Separatists Kidnap Quebec's Labor Minister |
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1973 | Vice-President Spiro Agnew Resigns, Pleads No Contest to Federal Tax Evasion |
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1975 | Richard Burton and Liz Taylor Remarry |
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1978 | President Jimmy Carter Signs Bill Authorizing Susan B. Anthony $1 Coin |
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1979 | Film 'The Rose,' Loosely Based on the Life of Janis Joplin, Premieres in Los Angeles |
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1980 | 7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 5,000, Injures 9,000 in Algeria |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site and Preservation District Is Established in Atlanta |
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"Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front" (FMLN) Founded in El Salvador |
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1982 | Milwaukee Brewers Are the First Team to Win a League Championship Series After Trailing 2 Games to 0 |
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1985 | Hijacking of the Italian Cruise Ship Achille Lauro Ends |
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1986 | 5.5 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 10,000, Injures 9,000 in El Salvador |
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1995 | Robert E. Lucas Jr. Selected as Nobel Prize Laureate for Economics |
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2001 | President George W. Bush Releases List of 22 Most-wanted Terrorists |
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2002 | U.S. House Votes to Give President Bush Authority to Attack Iraqi |
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2003 | Minnesota Dedicates Memorial to Three African-Americans Hanged in Duluth |
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2004 | Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed Is Elected President of Somalia |
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2007 | German Physical Chemist Gerhard Ertl Is Selected as the 2007 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry on His 71st Birthday |
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