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 Yuyi Morales Born: 1968 [Official Website]
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 Antonio López de Santa Anna Born: 1794 [PBS]
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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 scientist, mathematician or inventor born on this date:
MERRY REPELS |
Use all of these letters to spell the name of a country in which this date is observed as Columbus Day:
LAZE VENUE |
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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 name of a country in which this date is observed as Día de la Raza:
MALTA AGUE |
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Brazil: Nossa Senhora de Aparecida/Our Lady of Aparecida Day
(Commemorates the feast day Our Lady of Aparecida. patron saint of Brazil) |
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Costa Rica: cultures Day
(The Spanish conquistadores are remembered with protest marches by the indigenous people) |
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Honduras: Americas Day
(Commemorates First Sighting of the New World by Christopher Columbus: 10/12/1492) |
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Panama, Venezuela: Columbus Day
(Commemorates First Sighting of the New World by Christopher Columbus: 10/12/1492) |
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Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Uruguay: Día de la Raza/Day of the Race
(Commemorates the Arrival of Christopher Columbus and the European Race: 10/12/1492) |
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Equatorial Guinea: Independence Day
(Commemorates Equatorial Guinea's Independence from Spain: 10/12/1968) |
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Laos: Liberation from France Day
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Spain: Fiesta Nacional de Espana (National Day)
(Commemorates First Sighting of the New World by Christopher Columbus: 10/12/1492) |
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| 1863 | Evaleen Stein (Indiana-born Poet, Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1908 | Ann Lane Petry (Connecticut-born African-American Children's Author) |
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| Gösta Knutsson (Swedish Children's Author) |
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| 1916 | Alice Childress (South Carolina-born African-American Playwright, Novelist, Children's Author) |
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| 1934 | Joan Clark (Canadian Children's Author) |
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| 1941 | John Mole (English Poet, Children's Author) |
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| John Foster (English Poet, Children's Author) |
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| 1875 | Aleister Crowley (English Author) |
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| 1896 | Eugenio Montale (Italian Author: 1975 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1910 | Robert Fitzgerald (New York-born Poet, Translator) |
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| 1925 | Charles Gordone (Ohio-born African-American Playwright Awarded 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Drama) |
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| 1929 | Robert Coles (Massachusetts-born Psychologist, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author) |
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| 1947 | Chris Wallace (Chicago-born Journalist) |
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| 1949 | Richard Price (New York City-born Novelist) |
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| 1742 | Johann Peter Melchior (German Artist) |
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| 1872 | Ralph Vaughan Williams (English Composer) |
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| 1935 | Luciano Pavarotti (Italian Tenor) |
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| 1858 | Isaac Newton Lewis (Pennsylvania-born Military Officer and Inventor) |
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| 1860 | Elmer Sperry (New York-born Engineer, Inventor of the Gyro Compass) |
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| 1865 | Arthur Harden (English-born 1929 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) |
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| 1885 | William Samuel Quinland (Antigua-born African-American Pathologist) |
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| 1927 | Jean Nidetch (New York City-born Founder of Weight Watchers) |
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| 1818 | Elizabeth Van Lew (Virginia-born Union Spy During the American Civil War) |
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| 1919 | Dorie Miller (Texas-born African-American Recipient of the Navy Cross for Heroism at Pearl Harbor)) |
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| 1537 | Edward VI (King of England and Ireland) |
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| 1782 | Henry Dodge (Indiana-born Military and Political Leader; Marshall of the Missouri Territory, First Territorial Governor of Wisconsin) |
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| 1869 | William Henry Stafford (Wisconsin-born Member of the U.S. Congress) |
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| 1889 | Perle Mesta (Michigan-born Women's Rights Activist, U.S. Diplomat) |
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| 1891 | Edith Stein (German Scholar and Carmelite Nun; Executed by Nazis Because of Jewish Background) |
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| 1904 | William Montague Cobb (Washington, D.C.-born African-American Civil Rights Activist) |
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| 1906 | Louise Rosenfeld (Iowa-born Home Economist, Member of the Iowa Hall of Fame) |
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| 1913 | Henry Carl Schadeberg (Wisconsin-born Member of the U.S. Congress) |
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| 1879 | Chris Smith (South Carolina-born African-American Songwriter, Performer) |
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| 1927 | Antonia Rey (Cuban-born Latin-American Actress) |
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| 1932 | Dick Gregory (Missouri-born African-American Comedian, Civil Rights Activist) |
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| 1950 | Takeshi Kaga (Japanese-born Chef: The Iron Chef) |
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| 1956 | Hugh Jackman (Australian Actor) |
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| 1970 | Kirk Cameron (California Actor) |
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| 1975 | Marion Jones (Los Angeles-born Track and Field Athlete) |
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| 1864 | Roger B. Taney (Maryland-born Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1870 | Robert E. Lee (Virginia-born Leader of the Confederate Army) |
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| 1914 | Margaret Knight (Maine-born Inventor and Owner of 27 patents) |
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| 1915 | Edith Cavell (English Nurse Executed by the German Army - Some Sources Indicate Oct 11) |
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| 1940 | Tom Mix (Pennsylvania-born Film Cowboy, Killed in Automobile Accident) |
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| 1946 | Joseph Stilwell (Florida-born General, U.S. Army) |
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| 1965 | Paul Hermann Müller (Swiss-born 1948 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine) |
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| 1997 | John Denver (New Mexico-born Singer, Songwriter) |
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| Sonja Henie (Norwegian Olympic Figure Skating Champion) |
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| 1999 | Wilt Chamberlain (Pennsylvania-born African-American Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1285 | 180 Jews Are Burned Alive At Their Munich Synagogue |
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| 1492 | The New World Is First Sighted by Columbus' Ship The Pinta |
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| 1518 | Luther's Hearing Before the Papal Legate Regarding His 95 Theses Begins in Augsburg |
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| 1565 | Spanish Soldiers Execute French Admiral Jean Ribault and 200 Troops in Florida |
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| 1680 | First Catholic Mass Is Conducted on Texas Soil |
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| 1773 | The First American Hospital Devoted Exclusively to the Care of the Mentally Ill Opens in Williamsburg, Virginia |
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| 1777 | The British Fleet Sets Anchor on the Delaware River |
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| 1804 |
 Clark: I rose early after brackfast we joined the Indians who were waiting on the bank for us to come out and go and Council, we accordingly joined them and went to the house of the 2nd Chief where there was many Chief and warriers & about 7 bushels of Corn, a pr Leagins a twist of their Tobacco & Seeds of 2 Kind of Tobacco
we Set Some time before the Councill Commenced this man Spoke at Some length declareing his dispotion to believe and prosue our Councils, his intention of going to Visit his great father acknowledged the Satisfaction in receiveing the presents. rais'g a Doubt as to the Safty on passing the nations below particularly the Souex. This Chief Spoke verry much in the Stile on nearly the Same Subjects of the other Chief who Set by his Side, more Sincear & pleasently, he presented us with about 10 bushels of Corn Some beens & quashes all of which we acksepted with much pleasure, after we had ansd. his Speech & give them Some account of the Magnitude & power of our Countrey which pleased and astonished them verry much we returned to our boat, the Chiefs accompanied us on board, we gave them Some Sugar a little Salt, and a Sun Glass, & Set 2 on Shore & the third proceeded on with us to the Mandens at 2 oClock we Set out the inhabitints of the two Villages Viewing us from the banks, we proceeded on about 9˝ miles and Camped on the Starboard Shore at Some woods passed, the evening Clear & pleasent Cooler The Nation of the Rickerries [Recorees - Arikara Indians] is about 600 men able to bear arms a Great perpotion of them have fusees they appear to be peacefull, their men tall and perpotiend, womin Small and industerous, raise great quantities of Corn Beens Simmins also Tobacco for the men to Smoke they Collect all the wood and do the drugery as Common amongst Savages. Thise nations are made up of Different Tribes of the Pania [Pawnee] who had formerly been Seperate, but by Commotion and war with their neighbours have Come reduced and compelled to Come together for protection. The Curruption of the language of those different Tribes has So reduced the language that the Different Villages do not understade all the words of the others.— Those people are Durtey, Kind, pore, & extravigent pursessing national pride. not beggarley reive what is given with great pleasure, Live in worm houses large and built in an octagon form forming a Cone at top which is left open for the Smoke to pass, those houses are generally 30 or 40 foot Diamiter. Covd. with earth on poles willows & grass to prevent the earths passing thro', Those people express an inclination to be at peace with all nations—The Seaux who trade the goods which they get of the British Traders for their corn, and great influence over the Rickeres [Recorees - Arikara Indians] , poisen their minds and keep them in perpetial dread. I Saw Some of the Chien or Dog [Cheyenne] Indians This nation is at war with the Crow Indians & have 3 Children prisoners. a curious Cuistom with the Seaux as well as the reckeres [Recorees - Arikara Indians] is to give handsom Squaws to those whome they wish to Show Some acknowledgements to— The Seaiux we got Clare of without taking their Squars, they followed us with Squars 13th two days. The Rickores [Recorees - Arikara Indians] we put off dureing the time we were at the Towns but 2 Handsom young Squaws were Sent by a man to follow us, they Came up this evening and peresisted in their Civilities.
Dress of the men of this nation is Simply a pr. mockerson, Leagins, flap in front & a Buffalow roabe, with ther arms
The women, wore Mockersons leagins fringed and a Shirt of Goat Skins, Some with Sleaves. this garment is longe |
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| 1805 |
Clark: A fair Cool morning wind from the East. after purchaseing every Speces of the provisions those Indians could Spare we Set out and proceeded on at three miles passed four Islands Swift water and a bad rapid opposit to those Islands on the Lard. Side. at 14˝ miles passed the mouth of a large Creek on the Lard Side opposit a Small Island here the Countrey assends with a gentle assent to the high plains, and the River is 400 yards wide about 1 mile below the Creek on the Same Side took meridian altitude which gave 72° 30' 00" Latitude North in the afternoon the wind Shifted to the S. W. and blew hard we passed to day rapids Several of them very bad and came to at the head of one (at 30 miles) on the Stard. Side to view it before we attemptd. to dsend through it. The Indians had told us was verry bad— we found long and dangerous about 2 miles in length, and maney turns necessary to Stear Clare of the rocks, which appeared to be in every direction. The Indians went through & our Small Canoe followed them, as it was late we deturmined to camp above untill the morning. we passed Several Stoney Islands today Country as yesterday open plains, no timber of any kind a fiew Hack berry bushes & willows excepted, and but few drift trees to be found So that fire wood is verry Scerce— The hills or assents from the water is faced with a dark ruged Stone. The wind blew hard this evening.—
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| 1810 | The First Oktoberfest Is Celebrated in Munich, Germany |
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| 1817 | Henry David Thoreau is Christened David Henry Thoreau |
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| 1837 | House Sanctions Treasury Notes to Relieve U.S. Economic Depression |
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| 1841 | Danville, Arkansas Is Founded |
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| 1850 | Female Medical College of Pennsylvania Opens to 40 Students and 6 Faculty |
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| 1860 | The Prince of Wales, England's Future King Edward VII, Is Honored at a Lavish Ball in New York City |
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| 1861 | U.S.S. Dale Captures the Schooner Specie Carrying Rice Off the Florida Coast |
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| 1864 | Union Troops Lay Waste to Orange Groves Along Florida's St. Johns River |
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| 1865 | Former Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens Leaves Federal Prison after Four Months |
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| 1875 | Scotsman George G. Anderson Is First Person to Scale Yosemite's Half Dome |
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| 1892 | The First Car of Iron Ore from Mountain Iron, Minnesota Arrives at the Assay Office in Duluth |
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| 1896 | Alabama Girls' Industrial School (University of Montevallo) Opens Its Doors |
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| 1899 | South Africa's Boer War Begins |
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| Fire Destroys Downtown Badger, Minnesota |
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| 1914 | James C. McReynolds Sworn in As Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1915 | Germans Execute Edith Cavell, an English Nurse |
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| 1918 | Fire Burns Several Minnesota Towns, Destroying 250,000 Acres of Land - Killing 500 People |
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| 1920 | Construction Begins on Holland Tunnel Connecting New York City & New Jersey |
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| 1921 | José Vasconcelos Appointed Mexico's First Secretary of Public Education |
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| 1928 | First Iron Lung Is Used with Polio Victim at Boston's Children's Hospital |
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| 1929 | University of Georgia Dedicates Sanford Stadium with a Win Over Yale |
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| 1930 | Pilot Ralph Wien and Two Catholic Priests Are Killed in a Plane Crash at Kotzebue, Alaska |
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| 1931 | Johnny Weissmuller Is Cast as Tarzan |
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| A Bronze Statue of Christopher Columbus Is Dedicated on the Grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol |
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| 1932 | Archmere Academy for Is Dedicated in Claymont, Delaware |
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| 1933 | Bank Robber John Dillinger Escapes from Jail in Allen County, Ohio |
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| 1938 | Production Starts on The Wizard of Oz |
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| 1940 | Film Star Tom Mix Dies in Auto Accident |
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| 1942 | An Ordinance Plant Begins Production Near Point Pleasant, West Virginia |
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| 1944 | University of Texas' President Protests Board of Regents' Attempts to Censor Faculty |
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| 1945 | Columbus Day Is Made a State Holiday in Minnesota |
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| 1949 | Sherman Minton Sworn in As Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1958 | Dynamite Explosion Destroys Interior of the Atlanta Jewish Temple |
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| 1960 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Pounds Desk with His Shoe at the U.N. |
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| 1962 | Hurricane-Type Storm with 150 mph Winds Kills 45 People from San Francisco to Vancouver, British Columbia |
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| 1964 | Soviets Launch Voskhod I, First Space Capsule to Carry Three People |
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| 1966 | John Steinbeck's America and Americans Is Published |
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| 1967 | English Zoologist Desmond Morris' The Naked Ape Goes on Sale |
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| Cardinals' Bob Gibson's Shutout & Home Run, Defeat the Boston Red Sox in World Series Game 7 |
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| Anti-War Protestors Interrupt a Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) Drill at the University of Delaware |
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| 1968 | Equatorial Guinea Gains Its Independence from Spain |
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| XIX Olympiad Opens in Mexico City |
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| 1970 | President Nixon Announces Another Round of Troop Withdrawals |
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| 1971 | Andrew Lloyd Webber's Rock Opera, ''Jesus Christ Superstar,'' Opens on Broadway |
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| 1972 | Racial Violence Breaks Out On Board the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk |
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| Stevie Wonder Registers Words and Music for "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" |
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| 1973 | President Richard Nixon Nominates Gerald R. Ford to Succeed Spiro T. Agnew as Vice President of the United States |
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| 1979 | Boston Celtic, Chris Ford, Hits the First 3-pointer in NBA History |
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| 1984 | An IRA Terrorist Bomb Kills Four at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, England |
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| President Reagan's Executive Order Creates National Commission on Space |
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| 1986 | Reagan-Gorbachev Iceland Summit Adjourns without Reaching Agreements |
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| 1989 | Dallas Cowboys Trade 12 Players, 7 Draft Picks to Minnesota for Herschel Walker |
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| 1992 | 5.9 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 541, Injures Thousands in Cairo, Egypt |
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| 1997 | Singer John Denver Dies As Ultralite Aircraft Crashes into Monterey Bay, CA |
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| 1999 | The United Nations Announces the World's Population Has Reached 6 Billion |
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| Pakistan's Military Overthrows Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif |
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| 2000 | 17 U.S. Sailors Killed When Terrorists Attack the USS Cole in Yemen |
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| 2001 | U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Selected for the Nobel Peace Prize |
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| NBC News Staff Exposed to Anthrax from Letter Addressed to Anchor, Tom Brokaw |
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| 2002 | Islamic Militants' Bomb Destroys Indonesian Nightclub: 202 Die |
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