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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 title of a book by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (according to Kidsread list of titles):
TRY RID STICK |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a late work by Auguste Rodin (according to Boston College):
CRES TEETH |
(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 1964 work by Roland Barthes (according to Authors' Calendar):
OUR FEEL A LIFT |
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Azerbaijan: Constitution Day
(Commemorates the adoption of the Azerbaijan constitution 11/12/1995) |
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| United States: Indian Pudding Day |
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| 1888 | Anne Parish (Colorado-born Artists, Children's Author) |
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| 1917 | Dahlov Ipcar (Vermont-born Artist, Children's Author) |
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| 1928 | Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (Maine-born Children's Author) |
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| 1932 | James Forman (New York-born Children's Author) |
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| 1889 | (William Roy) DeWitt Wallace (Minnesota-born Founder of Reader's Digest) |
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| 1915 | Roland Barthes (French Philosopher, Essayist, Literary Critic) |
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| 1945 | Tracy Kidder (New York City-born Journalist, Author Awarded the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for General non-Fiction) |
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| Hanan al-Shaykh (Lebanese Author) |
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| 1493 | Baccio Bandinelli (Italian Sculptor) |
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| 1840 | Auguste Rodin (French Sculptor) |
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| 1833 | Aleksandr Borodin (Russian Composer) |
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| 1746 | Jacques Charles (French Physicist) |
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| 1852 | John William Strutt (English Physicist Who Discovered Argon; 1904 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1861 | Seth Nicholson (Illinois-born Astronomer Who Discovered Four Moons of Jupiter) |
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| 1817 | Mirza Hoseyn 'Ali Nuri (Iranian Founder of the Baha'i Faith) |
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| 1920 | Betty Pack (South African Cellist, Music Teacher, Founder of the Young South African Chamber Orchestra) |
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| 1815 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton (New York-born Women's Rights Activist) |
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| 1866 | Sun Yat-sen (Leader of China's Republican Revolution) |
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| 1908 | Harry Blackmun (Illinois-born Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court: 1970-94) |
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| 1930 | Molly Blackburn (South African Political Activist, Civil Rights Campaigner) |
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| 1938 | Stephen Vukile Tshwete (South African Activist, African National Congress Politician) |
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| 1934 | Charles Manson (Ohio-born Cult Leader, Mass Murderer) |
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| 1903 | Jack Oakie (Missouri-born Actor) |
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| 1911 | Buck Clayton (Missouri-born African-American Jazz Trumpeter, Composer) |
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| 1929 | Grace Kelly (Pennsylvania-born Actress; Princess of Monaco) |
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| 1966 | David Schwimmer (New York City-born Actor; Ross on Friends) |
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| 1980 | Ryan Thomas Gosling (Canadian Actor) |
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| 1982 | Anne Hathaway (New York City-born Actress) |
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| 1944 | Al Michaels (New York City-born Sportscaster) |
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| 1961 | Nadia Comaneci (Romanian Olympic Gold Medalist Gymnast) |
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| 1968 | Sammy Sosa (Dominican Republic Professional Baseball Player) |
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| 1970 | Tonya Harding (Oregon-born Olympic Figure Skater) |
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| 1035 | King Canute (Danish King of England) |
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| 1844 | John Stryker (New Jersey-born Cotton Pioneer in the Texas Rio Grande Valley) |
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| 1899 | Albert Ruger (Prussian-American Panoramic Map Artist) |
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| 1907 | Lewis Morris (Welsh Poet) |
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| 1939 | Norman Bethune (Canadian Surgeon) |
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| 1976 | Walter Piston (Maine-born Composer) |
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| 1984 | Chester Himes (Missouri-born African-American Novelist) |
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| 1993 | H.R. Haldeman (California-born Former White House Chief of Staff for President Nixon; Watergate co-Conspirator) |
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| 1996 | Eve Arden (California-born Actress) |
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| 2010 | Henryk Gorecki (Polish Composer) |
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| 1701 | The Carolina Assembly Passes a Vestry Act Making the Church of England the Official Religion of the Colony of Carolina |
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| 1738 | Gregor Frederick Handel Completes Part II ("Moses' Song") of His Oratorio "Israel in Egypt" |
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| 1783 | Antoine Lavoisier Shows Water to Be a Compound, Not an Element |
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| 1799 | Astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass Produces the First Known Report of Meteor Showers in North America |
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| 1802 | John Dalton Announces the First Example of the Law of Multiple Proportions |
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| 1803 |
 Lewis: We remained at Massac. I took altitudes in the morning but I didn't finish because of the clouds. |
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| 1804 |
Clark: a verry Cold night early this morning
the Big White princapal Chief of the lower Village of the Mandans Came Down, he packd about 100 W. of fine meet on his Squar for us, we made Some 3 men Sick
Wind Changeable verry cold evening, freesing all day Some ice on the
The interpeter Says that the Mandan nation, as they old men Say, [was created from an underground village beside a small lake] where they had Gardens. maney years ago they lived in Several Villages on the Missourie low down, the Smallpox destroyed the greater part of the nation and reduced them to one
after they were reduced the Sioux and other Indians waged war, and killed a great maney, and they moved up the Missourie, those Indians Still continued to wage war, and they moved Still higher, untill they got in the Countrey of the Panias, whith this nation they lived in friendship maney years, inhabiting the Same neighbourhood untill that people waged war,
They moved up near the watersoons the mandans and Seauex have the Same word for water— The Big bellies [Shoshone] Winitarees [Amahami] & ravin [Crow] Indians Speake nearly the Same language and the presumption is they were origionally the Same nation
The Ravin Indians [Crow] "have 400 Lodges & about 1200 men, & follow the Buffalow, or hunt for their Subsistance in the plains & on the Rock Mountains, Ordway: Clear & cold this morning. a verry hard frost. froze Some last night. we continued our buildings as usal. the chief of the lower village of the Mandens brought us Some buffalow meat which we were in want as our hunters has not arived yet. we unloaded the pearogue in order to fetch Stone.
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| 1805 |
Clark: A Tremendious wind from the S. W. about 3 oClock this morning with Lightineng and hard claps of Thunder, and Hail which Continued untill 6 oClock a. m. when it became light for a Short time, then the heavens became Sudenly darkened by a black Cloud from the S. W. and rained with great violence untill 12 oClock, the waves tremendious brakeing with great fury against the rocks and trees on which we were encamped. our Situation is dangerous. we took the advantage of a low tide and moved our camp around a point to a Small wet bottom at the mouth of a Brook, which we had not observed when we Came to this cove; from it being verry thick and obscured by drift trees and thick bushes It would be distressing to See our Situation, all wet and Colde our bedding also wet, (and the robes of the party which Compose half the bedding is rotten and we are not in a Situation to supply their places) in a wet bottom Scercely large enough to contain us, with our baggage half a mile from us and Canoes at the mercy of the waves, altho Secured as well as possible, Sunk with emence parcels of Stone to wate them down to prevent their dashing to pieces against the rocks; one got loose last night and was left on a rock a Short distance below, without rciving more dammage than a Split in her bottom— Fortunately for us our men are healthy. 3 men Gibson Bratten & Willard attempted to go aroud the point below in our Indian Canoe, much Such a canoe as the Indians visited us in yesterday, they proceeded to the point from which they were oblige to return, the waves tossing them about at will I walked up the branch and giged 3 Salmon trout. the party killed 13 Salmon to day in a branch about 2 miles above. rain Continued
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| 1813 | In Canoes on the Alabama River, 3 Frontiersmen Defeat Nine Creek Indians in Hand-to-Hand Combat |
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| 1828 | The City of Magnolia, Florida Is Incorporated under the Aegis of the Territorial Government |
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| 1831 | John Bull, the First U.S. Coal-burning Locomotive, Makes a Trial Run in Pennsylvania |
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| 1833 | A Meteor Shower Seen Across the Southeast U.S. Becomes Known as "the Night Stars Fell on Alabama" |
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| 1836 | Territorial Governor, Henry Dodge, Signs the First Law Passed by the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature |
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| 1838 | Iowa's First Legislative Assembly Meets in Burlington |
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| 1846 | Residents of Oregon Receive Word That All Land South of the 49th Parallel Has Been Conceded to America. |
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| 1859 | At the Cirque Napoleon in Paris, Jules Leotard Is the First Person to Perform on a Flying Trapeze |
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| 1862 | The British Blockade Runner, Maria, Is Seized by the U.S.S. Kensington Off the Coast of Florida |
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| 1864 | Union General William T. Sherman Orders the Destruction of the Atlanta, Georgia Business District |
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| General Sherman Orders the Destruction of All Railroads and Telegraph Lines Connecting Atlanta with Northwest Georgia |
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| Confederate Cavalry Ward Off an Effort by a Union Raiding Party to Destroy Salt Works Near Florida's Tampa Bay |
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| 1867 | U.S. Officials Meet at Fort Laramie, Wyoming to Discuss a Strategy for Peace with the Plains Indians |
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| 1868 | State Militia Raid Center Point, Arkansas in Response to Ku Klux Klan Activity |
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| A Revised Version of James Russell Lowell's "Emerson The Lecturer" Is Published in The Nation |
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| 1872 | Edwin Forrest, the First Great American Tragedian, Performs as Hamlet in Wilmington, Delaware |
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| 1880 | Lew Wallace Publishes His Novel "Ben-Hur" |
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| 1881 | Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 Is Premiered by the New York Philharmonic |
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| 1882 | In Minnesota, Five Craft Unions and Two Knights of Labor Assemblies Form the St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly |
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| 1883 | On Lake Michigan, High Waves Sink the 230-Foot Steamer, Akeley, Killing 6 of 18 Crew Members |
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| 1888 | Tchaikovsky's Symphonic Fantasy Overture "Hamlet" Premieres in Moscow |
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| 1889 | Governor John B. Gordon Signs Legislation Opening All Branch Colleges of the University of Georgia to White Female Students |
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| 1892 | The First Professional Football Player, "Pudge" Heffelfinger Is Paid $500 to Play for the Allegheny Athletic Association |
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| 1903 | The Lebaudy Brothers Set a New Air Distance Record Over Paris: 34 Miles in a Dirigible |
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| 1906 | In Smith County, Texas, Seaman A. Knapp Is the First Agricultural Agent in America to Serve a Single County |
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| 1910 | The Steamer Portland, Known as the "Gold Ship" Is Wrecked for a Total Loss at Katalla, Alaska |
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| 1914 | Theodore Richards Awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry |
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| 1915 | In Brownwood, Texas, 22 Music Clubs Form the Texas Federation of Music Clubs |
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| 1916 | Evangelist Billy Sunday Draws 70,000 to a Boston Revival |
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| 1918 | The Day After the Signing of the Armistice, a Squadron of British Warships Enter the Dardanelles Previously under Ottoman Rule |
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| Atlanta, Georgia Celebrates the End of the War with a Parade Led by 300 Veterans Who Fought in Europe |
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| 1920 | Judge Kennesaw Landis Is Elected as the First Commissioner of Baseball |
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| 1921 | The Jewish Congregation, B'nai Israel, Is Incorporated in Gainesville, Florida |
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| 1922 | Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Is Organized by Seven African-American Women in Indianapolis, Indiana |
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| 1926 | Miami, Florida's Biscayne Boulevard Is Dedicated |
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| 1927 | Josef Stalin Becomes the Undisputed Ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky Is Expelled from the Communist Party |
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| The Holland Tunnel between New York City and Jersey City, New Jersey, Is Officially Opened with a Telegraphed Signal from President Calvin Coolidge |
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| 1931 | In Toronto, Maple Leaf Gardens Opens with the Toronto Maple Leafs Hosting the Chicago Blackhawks |
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| Sergei Rachmaninoff Premieres His "Oriental Sketch" for Solo Piano in New York City |
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| 1936 | In California, the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge Opens |
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| 1940 | Supreme Court Strikes Down White Neighborhood Covenants Against African Americans |
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| The Batman Trademark Registered |
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| 1942 | Battle of Guadalcanal Begins |
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| 1944 | U.S. Fighters Destroy Japanese Convoy: 8,000 Killed |
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| 32 British Lancaster Bombers Sink the German Battleship Tirpitz |
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| 1946 | In Tokyo, Japan, an Abacus User Beats a U.S. Army Calculator in Solving 4 of 5 Problems |
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| The Exchange National Bank in Chicago Unveils the Nation's First Ten Drive-Up Teller Windows |
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| Walt Disney's Song of the South Has Its World Premier at Atlanta's Fox Theatre |
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| 1948 | Japanese Prime Minister Tojo and 7 Others Are Sentenced to Hang |
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| 1950 | Zoë Dusanne Opens Seattle Washington's First Professional Modern-Art Gallery |
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| 1954 | Ellis Island U.S. Immigration Station Closed |
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| 1960 | U.S. Satellite Discoverer XVII Is Launched into Polar Orbit to Measure Effects of Radiation on Human Tissue |
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| 1968 | U.S. Supreme Court Overrules Arkansas Ban on Teaching Evolution |
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| 1969 | Seymour Hersh Breaks the Story of the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam |
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| 1970 | Cyclone /Tidal Wave Hits East Pakistan: 200,000 Die |
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| 1971 | President Richard Nixon Sets February 1, 1972, as the Deadline for the Withdrawal of an Additional 45,000 U.S. Troops. |
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| 1973 | Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 14 Is Premiered in Leningrad by the Beethoven Quartet |
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| 1975 | Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas Retires |
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| 1977 | Ernest Morial Is Elected as the First African-American Mayor of New Orleans |
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| In Minnesota, Steve Carter's Eden Is the First Documented Performance at St. Paul's Penumbra Theatre |
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| 1979 | President Jimmy Carter Stops the Importation of Petroleum from Iran |
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| 1980 | U.S. Space Probe Voyager I Passes within 77,0000 mi. of Saturn |
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| 1981 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-2) As the First Space Vehicle to Be Reused |
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| 1982 | Yuri Andropov Assumes Power in the Soviet Union |
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| After 11 Months of Internment, the Polish Government Frees Lech Walesa, the Leader of the Outlawed Solidarity Movement |
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| 1984 | The British Government Announces It Will Discontinue Use of £1 Notes |
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| 1985 | Xavier Suarez Is Elected As Miami, Florida's First Cuban-American Mayor |
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| A Liberian Military Faction Fails in Its Attempt to Overthrow the Rule of Samuel Doe |
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| 1987 | American Medical Association Policy Makes It Unethical to Refuse Treatment for AIDS Patients |
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| 1990 | Crown Prince Akihito Is Enthroned as the 125th Japanese Monarch Two Years After the Death of His Father |
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| 1992 | Canada's Inuit Vote for Self-Government in the Eastern Arctic |
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| 1995 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-74) for a Docking with the Russian Space Station Mir |
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| 1996 | Jesse Jackson Threatens Boycott of Texaco for Discrimination |
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| The Defense Ministers of South Africa and Malaysia Sign a Memorandum Establishing Co-Operation Between the Two Countries |
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| 7.7 Magnitude Earthquake on the Coast of Peru Kills 14 People, Injures 560 and Leaves 12,000 Homeless |
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| 1997 | Ramzi Yousef Is Found Guilty of 1993 World Trade Center Bombing |
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| Brazil Refuses to Extradite Ronnie Biggs, "the Great Train Robber," Back to Britain |
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| 1999 | An Earthquake Strikes Western Turkey, Killing at Least 834 People |
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| 2001 | An American Airlines Flight Crashes into a New York City Neighborhood after Takeoff from JFK Airport, Killing 265 People. |
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