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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
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  Use all of these letters to spell the title of a novel by Robin McKinley (according to York University):
EAT BUY |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a song written by W.C. Handy (according to the African American Registry):
UNSUITABLE SOILS |
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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 spell the title of a 1977 work by Chinua Achebe (according to the Authors' Calendar):
FLU TEETH |
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United Nations: International Day of Tolerance
(Observed annually on November 16) |
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Estonia: Day of Declaration of Sovereignty
(Commemorates Estonia's declaration of sovereignty from the Soviet Union: 11/16/1988) |
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Oklahoma: Admission Day
(Commemorates Oklahoma's admission as the 46th state: 11/16/1907) |
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| 1912 | Joan Phipson (Australian Children's Author) |
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| 1915 | Jean Fritz (China-born American Children's Author) |
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| 1920 | Colin Thiele (Australian Poet, Playwright and Children's Author) |
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| 1937 | Ronald Himler (Ohio-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1939 | Victoria Chess (Chicago-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1943 | Stephanie Spinner (Iowa-born Children's Author) |
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| 1947 | Ann Blades (Canadian Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1952 | Robin McKinley (Ohio-born Children's Author Awarded the 1985 Newbery Medal for "The Hero and the Crown") |
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| 1953 | Gibbs Davis (Wisconsin-born Children's Author) |
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| 1957 | Barbara Reid (Canadian Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1886 | Arthur Krock (Kentucky-born Journalist and Recipient of Four Pulitzer Prizes) |
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| 1889 | George S. Kaufman (Pennsylvania-born Playwright) |
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| 1922 | José Saramago (Portuguese Author: 1998 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1930 | Chinua Achebe (Nigerian Author) |
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| 1943 | Phillip Lopate (New York City-born Author) |
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| 1951 | Paula Vogel (Washington, D.C.-born Playwright Awarded the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for "How I Learned to Drive") |
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| 1954 | Andrea Barrett (Massachusetts-born Author of Earth and Environmental Sciences) |
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| 1766 | Rodolphe Kreutzer (French Composer) |
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| 1873 | W.C. Handy (Alabama-born African-American Ragtime Composer) |
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| 1896 | Lawrence Tibbett (California-born Operatic Baritone) |
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| 1943 | James W. Mitchell (North Carolina-born African-American Chemist) |
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| 1884 | Charles Leo O'Donnell (Indiana-born President of the University of Notre Dame) |
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| 42 B.C. | Tiberius (Roman Emperor) |
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| 1867 | William Fosgate Kirby (Arkansas-born Member of the U.S. Congress) |
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| 1905 | Eddie Condon (Indiana-born Jazz Musician) |
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| 1907 | Burgess Meredith (Ohio-born Actor) |
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| 1958 | Marg Helgenberger (Nebraska-born Actress) |
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| 1967 | Lisa Bonet (San Francisco-born African-American Actress: Cosby) |
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| 1970 | Martha Plimpton (New York City-born Actress) |
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| 1963 | Zina Garrison (Texas-born African-American Professional Tennis Player) |
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| 1964 | Dwight Gooden (Florida-born African-American Baseball Player) |
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| 1977 | Oksana Baiul (Ukrainian Olympic Figure Skater) |
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| 1272 | King Henry III of England |
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| 1797 | Frederick William II (King of Prussia) |
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| 1724 | Jack Sheppard (Notorious English Thief) |
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| 1939 | Pierce Butler (Minnesota-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1960 | Clark Gable (Ohio-born Actor) |
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| 1961 | Sam Rayburn (Texas-born Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives) |
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| 1999 | Daniel Nathans (Delaware-born 1978 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine) |
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| 2000 | Hosea Williams (Georgia-born African-American Religious Leader, Civil Rights Activist) |
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| 2004 | Margaret Hassan (Irish-born CARE Aide Worker Assassinated in Iraq by Islamic Militants) |
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| 2006 | Milton Friedman (New York City-born 1976 Nobel Laureate for Economics) |
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| 1272 | England's King Henry III Dies and Is Succeeded by His Son Edward I |
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| 1620 | Pilgrim Landing Party Returns to The Mayflower After Spending Night Ashore |
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| 1632 | Gustav Adolf, King of Sweden Is Killed in the Battle of Luetzen |
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| 1724 | British Highwayman, Jack Sheppard, Hanged in Front of Est. Crowd of 200,000 |
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| 1776 | 3,000 Hessian Mercenary Soldiers Capture Long Island's Fort Washington |
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| 1797 | Frederick William II, King of Prussia, Dies - Succeeded by Frederick William III |
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| 1801 | Alexander Hamilton's New York Evening Post Is First Published |
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| 1804 |
 Clark: a verry white frost all the trees all Covered with ice, Cloudy, all the men move into the huts which is not finishd
Several Indians Come to Camp to day, The Ossinboins is at the Big bellie [Shoshone] Camp, Some trouble like to take place between them from the loss of horses &c. as is Said by an old Indian who visited us with 4 buffalow men imployed untill late in dobing [coating the walls with clay to close the chinks between the logs] their huts, Some horses Sent down to Stay in the woods near the fort, to prevent the Ossinboins Steeling them Ordway: a cold frosty night. the Trees were covered with frost which was verry course white & thick even on the Bows of the trees all this day. Such a frost I never Saw in the States. we continued building. raised a provision & Smoak house 24 feet by 14 f. the air verry thick with fogg from the R.
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| 1805 |
Clark: Cool the latter part of the last night this morning Clear and butifull; I had all our articles of every discription examined and put out to Dry. The 5 Chin nooks left us I took a meridenal altitude with the Sextn. 50° 36' 15 which gave for Lattitude 46° 19' 11 1/10" North. I Sent out Several hunters and fowlers in pursute Elk, Deer, or fowls of any kind. wind hard from the S W The Waves high & look dismal indeed breaking with great fury on our beech an Indian canoe pass down to day loaded with Wap-pa-toe roots; Several Indians came up to day from below, I gave them Smoke but allowed them no kind of privilage whatever in the camp, they with the 4 which came down yesterday encamped a Short distance from us. The evening proved Cloudy and I could not take any Luner observations— One man Sick with a violent cold, Caught by laying in his wet leather Clothes for maney nights past. The Countrey on the Stard Side above Haley Bay is high broken and thickley timbered on the Lard Side from Point Adams the Contrey appears low for 15 or 20 miles back to the mountains, a pinical of which now is Covered with Snow or hail, as the opposit is too far distant to be distinguished well, I Shall not attempt to describe any thing on that Side at present. Our hunters and fowlers killed 2 Deer 1 Crain & 2 Ducks, and my man York killed 2 geese and 8 Brant, 3 of them white with a part of their wings black and much larger than the Grey brant which is a Sise larger than a Duck. Ocian 4142 Miles from the Mouth of Missouri R.
Gass:
This was a clear morning and the wind pretty high. We could see the waves, like small mountains, rolling out
We are now at the end of our voyage, which has been completely accomplished according to the intention of the expedition, the object of which was to discover a passage by the way of the Missouri and Columbia rivers to the
The day being clear we got all our baggage dried, and in good order; and quietly rested until Capt Lewis and his party should return.
Whitehouse:
A clear cool morning. several Indians staid near our Camp last night. several of our party went out a hunting; We put out our baggage to dry.—
The hunters all returned but one, to our Camp. they had killed 4 deer, & a number of Ducks, Geese & brants.
A Number of Indians staid with us all day.
We are now in plain view of the Pacific Ocean. the waves rolling, & the surf roaring very loud. on the opposite shore
We are now of opinion that we cannot go any further with our Canoes, & think that we are at an end of our Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and as soon as discoveries necessary are made, that we shall return a short distance up the
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| 1821 | Indian Trader, William Becknell, Arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico from Independence, Missouri |
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| 1825 | The Granite Industry Is Started in Quincy, Massachusetts |
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| 1833 | Johnson County, Arkansas Is Created |
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| 1841 | New York City's Napoleon Guerin Granted First U.S. Patent for a Life Preserver |
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| 1845 | The Republic of Texas and Indian Tribes Conclude Tehuacana Creek Peace Treaty Councils |
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| 1849 | Russian Fyodor Dostoevsky Sentenced to Death for Antigovernment Activities |
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| 1854 | Minnesota's Oldest College, Hamline University, Opens for Business in Red Wing |
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| 1855 | British Explorer/Missionary, David Livingstone, Discovers Victoria Falls |
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| 1861 | The United States Christian Commission Is Founded to Provide Spiritual Support for Soldiers of the American Civil War |
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| 1863 | General Burnside's Union Troops Fend Off Longstreet at Campbell Station, TN |
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| 1875 | Ethiopian Forces Surround and Annihilate Egyptian Army of 2,000+ at Gundet |
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| Alabama Adopts a New State Constitution That Empower White Planters |
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| Six Hours of Gale-force Winds Destroy Buildings, Topple Trees in Western Washington |
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| 1881 | The First Street Signs Are Hung in Faribault, Minnesota |
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| 1883 | Having Sailed from Minnesota, the Steamer Manistee Sinks in Lake Superior; 23 Sailors Perish |
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| 1887 | The Wisconsin Veterans Home Is Established in Waupaca |
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| 1889 | In Hawaii, Oahu Railway and Land Company Begins Moving Inland Food Products to Port |
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| 1896 | The First Rural Free Delivery Route in Wisconsin Is Established at Sun Prairie |
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| 1897 | Iowa's First RFD Postal Service Begins at Morning Sun |
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| In Florida, the First Edition of the Kissimmee Valley Gazette Is Published |
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| 1898 | West Virginia Court Rules Schools May Not Discriminate with Regard to Length of School Term |
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| 1907 | Oklahoma Is Admitted to the Union As the 46th State |
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| 1912 | Knee Injury Ends College Football Career of Future President Dwight Eisenhower |
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| 1914 | Twelve Federal Reserve Banks Are Opened Across the Country |
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| 1915 | Ravensdale Coal Mine Explosion Kills 31 Men in Washington |
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| 1918 | Hungary Is Proclaimed a "People's Republic" |
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| 1926 | The South Texas Chamber of Commerce Is Established |
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| 1930 | Construction Begins on Louisiana's New State Capitol |
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| 1931 | The Chicago Bears' Joe Lintzenich Gets Off a 94-yard Punt Against the New York Giants |
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| 1933 | United States and the Soviet Union Establish Diplomatic Relations |
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| Under Secretary of Treasury, Dean Acheson, Resigns Protesting FDR's Gold/Currency Policies |
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| 1941 | Joseph Goebbels Blames Jews for World War II in NAZI Propaganda Magazine |
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| The Wustum Museum of Fine Arts Opens in Racine, Wisconsin |
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| 1943 | Britain's Lord Mountbatten Is Appointed Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia |
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| 1945 | The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Is Founded |
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| 88 German Scientists Arrive in the U.S. to Start Rocket Program |
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| At the Annual Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Glenn T. Seaborg, Announces the Discovery of Elements 95 & 96 |
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| California Governor Earl Warren Convenes a Water Conference to Develop a State Water Policy |
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| 1951 | Wallace Stevens Reads "A Collect of Philosophy" at the University of Chicago |
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| 1955 | His Majesty Mohammed V and the Royal Family of Morocco Return from Exile |
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| 1957 | Notre Dame Ends Oklahoma's 47-game Winning Streak with 7-0 Victory |
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| Boston Celtic's Bill Russell Pulls Down in 111-89 Win Against the Warriors |
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| 1959 | Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical ''The Sound of Music'' Opens on Broadway |
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| 1961 | President Kennedy Delivers Policy Speech at University of Washington's Centennial Convocation |
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| President Kennedy Increases Military Aid to South Vietnam |
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| 1962 | Unmanned Saturn Rocket Launched with 23,000 Gallons of Water Aboard for Atmospheric Test |
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| 1963 | President Kennedy Observes Submarine Launch of a Polaris Missile Off Coast of Cape Canaveral |
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| 1965 | Soviet Union Launches Venera 3, First Spacecraft to Impact Another Planet |
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| 1966 | Dr. Sam Sheppard Acquitted of Charges of Murdering His Pregnant Wife in 1954 |
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| 1972 | Police Shoot and Kill Two Student Protesters at Louisiana's Southern University |
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| 1973 | Skylab 4 Launched with Crew of Three for 84-day Mission |
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| President Nixon Signs Bill Authorizing Construction of Trans-Alaska Pipeline |
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| 1977 | Stephen Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" Is Registered |
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| 1982 | 5.6 Magnitude Earthquake Kills One in Albania |
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| NFL and Players Union Reach Agreement Ending 57-day Strike |
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| 1983 | 6.7 Magnitude Earthquake Injures Six in Hawaii |
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| English Football Fans Riot in Luxembourg |
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| 1988 | Estonia Declares Its Sovereignty from the Soviet Union |
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| Benazir Bhutto Is Elected Leader of Pakistan |
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| 1990 | U.S. Congress Passes Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act |
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| 1995 | U.N. Tribunal Charges Bosnian Serb Leaders with Genocide |
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| Britain's 95-year-old Queen Mother Has Right Hip Replaced |
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| 1997 | Chinese Dissident, Wei Jingsheng, Arrives in U.S. After 17+ Years in a Labor Camp |
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| 1998 | The Albany Civil Rights Mission Museum Opens in Albany, Georgia |
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| 2001 | Congress Passes Aviation Security Bill Mandating Federal Security in Airports |
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| Investigators Quarantine Letter with Anthrax Addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) |
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| 2004 | C.A.R.E. Worker, Margaret Hassan, Is Assassinated by Islamic Terrorists in Iraq |
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| 2010 | President Obama Presents Medal of Honor to Salvatore Giunta, First Living Recipient of the Iraq/Afghanistan War |
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