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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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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 children's author or illustrator born on this date:
JUDO HOG GRIT |
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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 1920 work by George Santayana
(according to the Authors' Calendar)
LETS SAY LITES |
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Bahrain: National Day (Day 1 of 2)
(Celebration of independence from Britain: 12/16/1971) |
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Bangladesh: Victory Day
(Commemoration of the Bangladesh resistance defeat of the Pakistan Army: 12/16/1971) |
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Kazakhstan: Independence Day
(Celebration of independence from Russia: 12/16/1991) |
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Mexico: Las Posadas (Day 1 of 9)
(Commemoration of journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem) |
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Republic of the Philippines: Misa de Gallo/Simbang Gabi/Misa de Aguinaldo
(Day 1 of 9: Early morning Christmas masses) |
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South Africa: Day of Reconciliation
(Observance of a traditional holiday renamed in 1994 with the end of Apartheid) |
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| 1893 | Marie Hall Ets (Wisconsin-born Children's Author, Illustrator Awarded the 1960 Caldecott Medal for Nine Days to Christmas) |
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| 1912 | Jane Andrews Lee Hyndman (Lee Wyndham: Russian-American Children's Author) |
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| 1917 | Arthur C. Clarke (English Science Fiction Novelist, Children's Author) |
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| 1921 | John T. Carter (Mississippi-born Children's Author) |
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| 1927 | Peter Dickinson (English Children's Author) |
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| Sandol Stoddard Warburg (Alabama-born Children's Author) |
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| 1930 | Bill Brittain (New York-born Children's Author) |
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| 1932 | Quentin Blake (English Children's Author, Illustrator; 3-time Winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration) |
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| 1936 | Karleen Bradford (Canadian Children's Author) |
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| 1938 | Judith Gorog (Wisconsin-born Author of Short Stories for Children) |
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| 1945 | Laurene Krasny Brown (New York City-born Children's Authors, Illustrator, Broadcaster) |
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| 1956 | E. B. (Earl Bradley) Lewis (Pennsylvania-born African-American Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1775 | Jane Austen (English Novelist) |
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| 1863 | George Santayana (Spanish-American Philosopher, Poet) |
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| 1899 | Noël Coward (English Playwright) |
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| 1900 | V.S. Pritchett (English Author) |
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| 1928 | Philip K. Dick (Chicago-born Science Fiction Novelist) |
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| 1814 | Horace W. S. Cleveland (Massachusetts-born Landscape Architect) |
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| 1770 | Ludwig van Beethoven (German Classical Composer) |
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| 1775 | Francois Boieldieu (French Composer) |
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| 1926 | James McCracken (Indiana-born Operatic Tenor) |
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| 1850 | Hans Buchner (German Bacteriologist) |
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| 1857 | Edward Emerson Barnard (Tennessee-born Astronomer) |
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| 1901 | Margaret Mead (Pennsylvania-born Anthropologist) |
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| 1872 | Anton Ivanovich Denikin (Polish-Russian General. Military Dissident) |
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| 1714 | George Whitefield (English Anglican Minister; Namesake of Whitfield County, Georgia) |
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| 1769 | Jesse Mercer (North Carolina-born Clergyman; Founder of Georgia's Mercer College) |
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| 1485 | Catherine of Aragon (Queen of England) |
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| 1808 | Kingsley S. Bingham (New York-born Governor of Michigan) |
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| 1843 | Josephine Shaw Lowell (Massachusetts-born Philanthropist, Social Reformer Who Helped Create Modern Programs for the Poor and Needy) |
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| 1861 | Oscar Branch Colquitt (Georgia-born Governor of Texas) |
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| 1930 | C. W. "Bill" Young (Pennsylvania-born Member of the U.S. Congress From Florida) |
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| 1938 | Liv Ullmann (Norwegian Actress) |
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| 1943 | Steven Bochco (New York City-born Television Writer, Producer) |
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| 1882 | Jack (John Berry) Hobbs (First English Cricket Player to be Knighted) |
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| 1859 | Wilhelm Grimm (German Author of Folktales; The Brothers Grimm) |
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| 1860 | Charles J. McDonald (South Carolina-born Governor of Georgia) |
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| 1916 | Gregory Rasputin (Russian Mystic: Murdered) |
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| 1921 | Camille Saint-Saëns (French Composer, Pianist) |
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| 1922 | James Davidson (Norwegian-American Governor of Wisconsin: 1906-1911) |
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| 1945 | Fumimaro Konoe (Japanese Prince: Suicide) |
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| 1965 | W. Somerset Maugham (English Novelist) |
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| 1431 | Henry VI Is Crowned King of France |
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| 1653 | Oliver Cromwell Takes on Dictatorial Powers As Lord Protector of Britain |
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| 1773 | The Sons of Liberty Dump 342 Cases of Tea into Boston Harbor to Protest Tea Tax |
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| 1783 | George Washington Passes through Wilmington, Delaware on His Way to Annapolis, Maryland to Resign His Military Commission Before Congress |
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| 1803 |
 Clark: Friday - Continuing to raise cabins. Sent Floyd and Cahokia off with letters to Captain Lewis to put in post office. Several boats came down the river today. A Pierogue came too, a Mr. Samuel Griffeth lives nine miles up the Missouri as well as a Mr. Gilbert, a trader in salt. The winds were high today, it was cloudy. We raised one cabin last night. I wrote a speech. |
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Clark: a clear Cold morning, the Thermtr. at Sun rise Stood at 22° below 0, a verry Singaler appearance of the Moon last night, as She appeared thro: The frosty atmispear—
Mr. Henny, from the Establishment on River Ossinnniboin, with a letter from, Mr. Le rock [Larocque] a Clerk, of the N W Company and Mr. George Bunch a Clerk of the Hudsons bay Compy accompanied Mr. Henny from the Village—
Ordway:
Some of our men went up to the Mandan Village
4 men came here which belonged to the N W. Compy. of Traders, which are
Gass:
A clear cold day;
I went up with some of the men to the 1st and 2nd village of the Mandans, and we were treated with much kindness.
Three of the traders from the N. W. Company came to our fort, and brought a letter to our commanding officers. They remained with us all night. The object of the visits we received from the N. W. Company, was to ascertain our
Hugh Heney and Franois-Antoine Larocque of the North West Company and George Bunch, or Budge, of the Hudson's Bay Company. Heney and Larocque delivered a letter from Charles Chaboillez of the North West Company on the Assiniboine River
The North West Company was first formed in the winter of 1783–4, by the merchants of Canada engaged in the fur trade, uniting their interests in a commercial association agreeing among themselves to carry on the fur trade, founded on a more solid basis. This and Hudson's Bay Company, would carry on almost the whole of the fur trade in the northwest portion of North America.
Hugh Heney, or Hené, was supposedly an employee of Régis Loisel on the Missouri. In 1804 he entered the service of the North West Company. At some point he traded with the Minniconjou Sioux near the mouth of Cheyenne River in South Dakota. The captains questioned him extensively about this tribe, and they later sought his aid in persuading Teton Sioux chiefs to go to Washington.
George Bunch could speak the Hidatsa language well, an indication that he had been to their villages before. This gave him an advantage in trading over Larocque, whose journal indicates that the two were more concerned with competing with each other than with spreading British influence among the Indians.
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| 1806 | Two Boatloads of Men Leave Jeffersonville, Indiana to Join Aaron Burr in His Quest To Take Over a Large Segment of the Southwest U.S. |
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| 1809 | Napoleon Bonaparte Divorces Empress Josephine by Act of the French Senate |
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| 1811 | The Greatest Series of Earthquakes in U.S. History Begins with an 8.6 Magnitude Earthquake Near New Madrid, Missouri |
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| 1815 | William Cullen Bryant Writes the Poem, "To a Waterfowl" |
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| 1826 | Benjamin Edwards Seizes a Fort in Mexican-Controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and Proclaims Himself Ruler of the Texas Republic of Fredonia |
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| 1835 | New York City Fire Destroys 600 Buildings |
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| 1836 | The Republic of Texas Charters the Texas Railroad, Navigation, and Banking Company |
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| 1838 | South African Boers Kill 3,000 Zulus at the Battle of Blood River |
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| 1847 | Georgia's Governor Signs Legislation Authorizing Construction of a State School for the Deaf |
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| 1853 | Kinchafoonee County Is Created as Georgia's 104th County (Later Renamed Webster County in Honor of Daniel Webster) |
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| 1857 | 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake Leaves 11,000 Dead in Naples, Italy |
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| 1859 | 2 of 5 African-Americans Participants Are Hanged for the Harper's Ferry Raid |
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| 1861 | Georgia Legislation Allows Married Women to Have Bank Accounts of Less Than $1000 Separate From Their Husbands |
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| 1863 | General Joseph Johnston Is Named Commander of the Army of Tennessee |
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| Iowa-born Confederate Colonel Sul Ross Merges Four Texas Cavalry Regiments into Ross's Brigade |
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| 1864 | Union Troops Devastate Confederate Forces at Nashville, Tennessee |
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| 1865 | Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" Is Printed in the San Francisco Californian |
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| 1871 | George A. Edes Is Appointed Collector of Customs for Alaska with Headquarters at Sitka |
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| 1884 | Longman's Magazine Publishes "A Humble Remonstrance" by Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| In Fall River, Massachusetts, French Canadian Roman Catholic Parishioners Refuse to Accept an Irish Catholic Priest |
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| Minnesota Machinist William H. Fruen Is Issued the First U.S. Patent for a Coin-Operated Liquid-Dispensing Vending Machine |
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| The New Orleans Exposition Opens through May 31, 1885 |
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| 1889 | The Minneapolis Public Library Opens |
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| 1893 | Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" Premieres |
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| 1897 | Georgia Designates Jefferson Davis' Birthday (June 3) as a State Holiday |
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| 1898 | U.S. President William McKinley Visits Alabama's Tuskegee Institute at the Invitation of Booker T. Washington, the School's President |
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| 1913 | Charlie Chaplin Reports to Work for His First Day in the Film Business |
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| 1914 | Germans Bombard English Ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough |
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| 1916 | Noblemen Murder Russian Mystic Gregory Rasputin |
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| The Last Public Hanging in West Virginia Occurs in Ripley |
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| 1920 | 8.6 Magnitude Earthquake Hits China's Gansu Province: 200,000 Die |
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| 1924 | The First Trip over Florida's Cross-State Highway Is Completed From West Palm Beach to Tampa-St. Petersburg |
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| 1934 | Construction Begins on the All-American Canal That Will Carry Water From the Colorado River to Southern California |
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| 1935 | In Lower Manhattan, Fire Ravages the Inside of the Merchants' Exchange |
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| The Movie "A Tale of Two Cities" Is Registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office |
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| 1936 | The Ohio Legislature Enacts an Unemployment Compensation Law to Provide Unemployment Insurance for Workers |
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| 1944 | Battle of the Bulge Begins in Belgium when Germans Launch a Surprise Attack |
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| 1945 | Prince Fumimaro Konoe Commits Suicide to Escape War Crimes Charges |
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| 1949 | Achmad Sukarno Is Elected Indonesia's First President as a Sovereign Country |
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| Mao Zedong, Leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Meets in Moscow with Josef Stalin, Leader of the Soviet Union |
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| Swedish Automaker SAAB Produces Its First Motorcar |
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| 1950 | President Truman Declares State of Emergency in Reply to Chinese Intervention in Korea |
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| 1951 | Dragnet First Appears on Television As a Sneak Preview |
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| 1954 | The First Synthetic Diamond Is Produced at General Electric Research Laboratories |
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| Remote Dixie Valley, Nevada Is the Epicenter of a 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake |
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| 1955 | England's Queen Elizabeth II Inaugurates New Buildings at Heathrow Airport |
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| 1960 | United DC-8 & TWA Super Constellation Collide over New York City: 134 People Die |
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| 1961 | 263 Demonstrators Led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Are Arrested on the Steps of the Albany, Georgia City Hall |
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| 1962 | Nepal's Revised Constitution Strengthening Royal Authority Is Adopted on the Second Anniversary of the Royal Coup |
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| Explorer 16 Is Launched From Cape Canaveral, Florida for the Study of Meteors and Other Space Debris |
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| 1963 | Kenya Is Admitted to the United Nations |
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| 1965 | NASA Launches the Pioneer 6 Satellite into Orbit Around the Sun |
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| 1966 | United Nations Adopts Economic Sanctions Against Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) |
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| Built for the Washington State Ferries, the Superferry Elwha Is Launched at the San Diego Yard of the National Steel & Shipbuilding Company |
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| 1969 | British House of Commons Permanently Abolishes the Death Penalty |
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| 1971 | East Pakistan (Bangladesh) Resistance Defeats the Pakistan Army |
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| Bahrain Gains Its Independence from British Protection |
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| 1973 | Buffalo Bills O.J. Simpson Is the First Running Back to Rush for More Than 2,000 Yards in a Single Season |
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| 1976 | President Jimmy Carter Appoints Georgia Congressman Andrew Young U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. |
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| 1977 | England's Queen Elizabeth II Formally Opens an Underground Link to Heathrow Airport |
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| 1978 | Cleveland, Ohio Is the First U.S. City Since the Great Depression to Default on Loans |
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| 1979 | Women!! Make Turban in Own Home by Eudora Welty Is Published by Palaemon Press Limited |
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| 1982 | 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 450 People in Afghanistan |
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| 1984 | Future Soviet Leaders, Mikhail Gorbachev, Talks for 5 Hours with the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher |
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| 1990 | Jean-Bertrand Aristide Haiti's First Democratically Elected President |
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| The African National Congress Ends Its First Conference in 31 Years to be Held Within South Africa |
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| 1991 | Kazakhstan Gains Its Independence from Russia |
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| United Nations Rescinds 1975 Resolution Equating Zionism with Racism |
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| 1997 | President Clinton Awards 14 Scientists the National Medal of Science |
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| 1998 | President Clinton Orders U.S. Air Strikes in Retaliation for Iraq's Defiance of Weapons Inspectors |
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| 2000 | President-elect George W. Bush Selects Colin Powell as the First African-American Secretary of State |
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| 2002 | Canada Ratifies the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions |
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