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OCTOBER 16 |
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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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| Why do you teach? Let Us Know. |  |
Tell Us about your most memorable teacher. |
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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 work by Patrice Kindl (according to the University of Illinois):
LIONEL VOW |
Use all of these letters to spell the name of a work by Eugene O'Neill:
PRONE REJETS HOME |
(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 Oscar Wilde:
ANTICIPATED FORGERY HOUR |
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United Nations: World Food Day
(Commemorates the founding of UN Food and Agriculture Organization 10/16/1945) |
 
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United States: Dictionary Day
(Observed in honor of Noah Webster's birth date: 10/16/1758) |
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| 1900 | Edward Ardizzone (English Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1939 | Karen Gundersheimer (Massachusetts-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1942 | Joseph Bruchac (New York-born Native-American Children's Author, Poet) |
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| Sandy Asher (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author, Playwright) |
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| 1951 | Patrice Kindl (New York-born Children's Author) |
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| 1758 | Noah Webster (Connecticut-born Lexicographer) |
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| 1849 | George Washington Williams (Pennsylvania-born African-American Historian, Journalist, Minister) |
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| 1854 | Oscar Wilde (Fingall O'Flahertie Wills: Irish Dramatist)) |
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| 1888 | Eugene O'Neill (New York City-born Playwright: 1936 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1906 | Cleanth Brooks (Kentucky-born Author, Educator) |
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| 1919 | Kathleen Winsor (Minnesota-born Author) |
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| 1927 | Günther Grass (German-born 1999 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1930 | Dan Pagis (Romanian Poet) |
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| 1679 | Jan Dismas Zelenka (Czech Composer) |
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| 1821 | Albert Franz Doppler (Austrian Composer) |
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| 1708 | Albrecht von Haller (Swiss Biologist) |
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| 1799 | Isaac Murphy (Pennsylvania-born Governor of Arkansas) |
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| 1885 | David Ben-Gurion (Polish-born Statesman, First Prime Minister of Israel: 1948-53, 1955-63) |
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| 1890 | Michael Collins (Irish Revolutionary Leader, Statesman) |
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| 1898 | William O. Douglas (Minnesota-born Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court: 1939 - 1975) |
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| 1922 | Leon Sullivan (West Virginia-born African-American Civil Rights Activist, Opponent of South African Apartheid) |
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| 1931 | Charles Colson (Massachusetts-born Member of President Nixon's White House Staff, Watergate Co-conspirator) |
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| 1903 | Ford Lee "Buck" Washington (Kentucky-born Jazz Musician, Dancer, Comedian) |
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| 1923 | Bert Kaempfert (German Popular Songwriter) |
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| 1925 | Angela Lansbury (English Actress) |
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| 1932 | Henry Lewis (Los Angeles-born African-American Conductor, Music Director, Double Bassist) |
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| 1946 | Suzanne Somers (California-born Actress) |
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| 1947 | David Zucker (Wisconsin-born Writer, Director, Producer) |
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| 1959 | Tim Robbins (California-born Actor) |
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| 1861 | Richard Dudley Sears (Massachusetts-born Member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame) |
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| 1969 | Juan Gonzalez (Puerto Rican Baseball Player) |
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| 1972 | Kordell Stewart (Louisiana-born African-American Professional Football Player) |
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| 1591 | Pope Gregory XIV (Italian-born Roman Catholic Pope) |
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| 1730 | Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac (French Explorer; Namesake of the Cadillac Automobile) |
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| 1793 | Marie Antoinette (Austrian-born Queen of France: Beheaded) |
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| 1881 | Louis Wiltz (Governor of Louisiana: 1880-81) |
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| 1939 | Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke (South African Teacher, Social Worker, Politician) |
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| 1946 | Alfred Rosenberg (Estonia-born Nazi Propagandist: Executed) |
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| 1972 | Hale Boggs (Mississippi-born Louisiana Congressman; Airplane Crash in Alaska) |
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| 1997 | James Michener (New York City-born Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author) |
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| 2000 | Mel Carnahan (Governor of Missouri: Killed in Plane Crash) |
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| 2001 | Etta Jones (South Carolina-born African-American Jazz Vocalist) |
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| 1443 | Attempt to Usurp the Japanese Throne Is Unsuccessful |
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| 1555 | Protestant Bishops Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer, English Reformers and Martyrs, Are Burned at the Stake |
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| 1649 | The Colony of Maine Passes Legislation Granting Religious Freedom to All of Its Citizens |
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| 1773 | Philadelphia Resolutions Criticize Tea Act |
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| 1786 | The Continental Congress Authorize the Establishment of a Mint Facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
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| 1793 | Marie-Antoinette Is Beheaded |
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| 1804 | William Dunbar and George Hunter Begin an Exploration of Arkansas's Hot Springs as Ordered by President Thomas Jefferson |
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| 1826 | Potawatomi Indians Agree to Mississinewa Treaty Ceding Land for Indiana's Michigan Road |
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| 1829 | The Tremont House Opens in Boston as the First Modern Hotel (170 Private Guest Rooms) |
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| 1836 | Marcus Whitman, a Presbyterian Minister, Establishes a Mission on Washington's Walla Walla River |
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| 1846 | Ether Is First Used in a Public Operation |
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| 1850 | Wisconsin's Oldest County Fair Is First Held in Walworth County |
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| 1854 | In Peoria, Abraham Lincoln Denounces Slavery and the Kansas-Nebraska Act in Debate with Douglas |
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| 1859 | John Brown Leads a Raid on Harpers Ferry Arsenal |
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| 1867 | In Little Lake, California, a Feud Between the Coates and Frost Families Begins with Namecalling and Ends with 6 Dead |
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| 1876 | The University of Oregon Registers Its First 177 Students |
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| 1880 | Race Riots Break Out in Wilmington, Delaware After 900 Democrats March Past an African-American Lodge Hall |
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| 1884 | In Wisconsin, the First Edition of the Washburn Itemizer Is Published |
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| 1891 | The Inaugural Concert of the Chicago Symphony is Conducted by Theodore Thomas at the Chicago Auditorium |
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| 1893 | Long distance Telephone Service Is Inaugurated Between Seattle, Spokane, and Portland |
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| 1901 | Booker T. Washington Is the First African American to Dine at the White House with an American President |
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| 1902 | England's First Prison for Young Offenders Is Opened at Borstal in Kent |
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| 1903 | Fire Destroys 140 Buildings in Aberdeen, Washington |
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| 1908 | At Farnsborough, American Sam Cody Makes First Powered Airplane Flight in England |
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| 1909 | U.S. President William Howard Taft Meets Mexico's President Porfirio Díaz Met in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez |
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| 1916 | British Soldier Henry Farr Is Executed for Cowardice |
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| Margaret Sanger Opens the Nation's First Birth Control Clinic in New York City |
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| 1917 | Alabamian Kelley Ingram Is the First American Serviceman Killed in Action During World War I |
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| 1921 | The Marx Brothers Play the Hennepin Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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| 1924 | Minnesota's First Pheasant Season Begins in Hennepin and Carver Counties |
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| 1925 | The Texas State Text Book Board Bans Evolutionary Theory from All Textbooks |
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| 1929 | The Presbyterian Church at Wrangell, the Oldest One in Alaska, Is Destroyed by Fire |
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| 1930 | Air Passenger Service Is Inaugurated between Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles |
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| A Minneapolis Bookstore Owned by the Communist Party Is Bombed and Looted, Its Books Burned on the Street |
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| 1934 | Chinese Communists Begin Their Epic 368-day, 6,000-mile "Long March": |
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| 1938 | Aaron Copland's Billy the Kid Ballet Opens in Chicago |
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| 1939 | Man Who Came to Dinner Opens on Broadway |
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| 1940 | The First Peace Time Draft in U.S. History Is Initiated |
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| Ernest Lynch of Lewes Is the First Man from Delaware Drafted into Service for World War II |
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| 1941 | The Ukrainian Seaport of Odessa Surrenders to Axis Forces |
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| 1944 | Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber Is Published |
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| 1946 | Ten High-Ranking Nazi Officials Are Hanged in Nuremberg, Germany for Crimes Against Humanity |
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| 1947 | 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered on Wood River, Alaska |
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| 1952 | The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Donate a Collection of Renaissance Art to the New Orleans Museum of Art |
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| 1955 | Elvis Presley First Appears on Television: "Louisiana Hayride" |
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| Mrs. Jules Lederer Prints First Column in the Chicago Sun-Times as Ann Landers |
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| Grand Ole Opry Premieres on ABC |
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| 1956 | William J. Brennan, Jr. Is Sworn In As Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1958 | Chevrolet Introduces the El Camino |
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| 1959 | Crescent, Iowa Is Incorporated |
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| 1962 | President Kennedy First Learns of Missiles in Cuba |
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| 1963 | From Cape Canaveral, Florida, Twin "Vela Hotel" Satellites Are Launched to Detect Nuclear Explosions in Space |
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| 1964 | China Detonates a Nuclear Device to Become the Fifth Nuclear Power |
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| 1968 | Tommie Smith & John Carlos Stage Black Power Protest at Olympic Games |
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| The Milwaukee Bucks Open Their First Season with an 89-84 Loss to the Chicago Bulls |
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| 1970 | Anwar Sadat Is Elected President of Egypt |
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| Canada Responds to FLQ Terrorism by Invoking War Measures |
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| 1972 | The Airplane of Louisiana Congressman Hale Boggs Is Reported Missing over Alaska |
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| 1973 | Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho Are Selected as Nobel Laureates for Peace |
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| Maynard Jackson Becomes the First African-American Mayor of Atlanta |
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| 1974 | Prisoners Riot, Set Fire to Maze Prison in Northern Ireland |
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| 1975 | NASA Launches GOES-1 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
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| 1978 | Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla Selected as First Non-Italian Pope Since 1523 |
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| 1981 | 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered Off the Central Coast of Chile |
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| 1984 | South African Bishop, Desmond Tutu, Is Chosen for the Nobel Peace Prize |
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| The DuPont Company Donates 528 Acres in Delaware and 1,234 Acres in Pennsylvania to Create White Clay Creek Valley State Park |
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| 1987 | Hurricane Kills 18 in Southern England |
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| Minnesota Celebrates Henry H. Wade Day, Honoring the Inventor of Enriched Taconite |
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| 1991 | Spokane Wildland Fires Kill One Person and Destroy 114 Homes |
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| 1994 | Germany's Helmut Kohl Is Re-Elected to Fourth Term as Chancellor |
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| Kiro Gligorov Is Elected President of the Republic of Macedonia |
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| 1995 | Nation of Islam Million Man March Is Held in Washington, D.C. |
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| 1996 | A Stampede of Soccer Fans Kills 84 in Guatemala City |
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| 1998 | Two Northern Ireland Politicians Selected for the Nobel Peace Prize for Brokering Peace Agreement |
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| British Police Arrest Former Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet in London |
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| Typhoon Zeb Kills 25 People on the Island of Taiwan |
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| 1999 | 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Derails an Amtrak Train in California |
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| 2000 | Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan and His Son Are Killed in a Plane Crash South of St. Louis |
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| 2002 | President George W. Bush Signs Congressional Resolution Authorizing War Against Iraq |
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