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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 scientist, mathematician or inventor born on this date:
JOHN WINCED |
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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 an 1846 work of poetry by John Greenleaf Whittier (according to the Academy of American Poets)
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Bahrain: National Day (Day 2 of 2)
(Celebration of independence from Britain: 12/16/1971) |
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Bhutan: National Day
(Commemoration of the election of first hereditary king: 12/17/1907) |
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Mexico: Las Posadas (Day 2 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 2 of 9 early morning Christmas masses) |
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United States: Wright Brothers Day
(Commemoration of Orville Wright's first powered flight: 12/17/1903) |
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| 1904 | William Lipkind (New York City-born Poet, Children's Author) |
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| 1931 | David Kherdian (Wisconsin-born Poet, Children's Author) |
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| 1616 | Roger L'Estrange (English Journalist, Pamphleteer) |
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| 1796 | Thomas C. Haliburton (Canadian Judge and Humorist) |
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| 1807 | John Greenleaf Whittier (Massachusetts-born Quaker Poet, Abolitionist) |
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| 1873 | Ford Madox Ford (English Writer, Editor; a Founding Fathers of English Modernism) |
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| 1903 | Erskine Caldwell (Georgia-born Novelist) |
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| 1929 | William Safire (New York City-born Columnist, Author Awarded the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary) |
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| 1925 | Calvin Tomkins (New Jersey-born Arts Journalist) |
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| 1749 | Domenico Cimarosa (Italian Composer) |
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| 1894 | Arthur Fiedler (Boston-born Conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra) |
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| 1778 | Humphrey Davy (English Chemist Who Discovered Sodium, Barium, Magnesium, Potassium and Strontium |
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| 1797 | Joseph Henry (New York-born Physicist; Pioneer in the Study of Electromagnetism) |
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| 1839 | Newton H. Winchell (New York-born State Geologist for Minnesota) |
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| 1861 | Arthur Edwin Kennelly (English-American Electrical Engineer Who Discovered the Ionosphere) |
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| 1892 | Edwin J. Cohn (New York City-born Biochemist; Pioneer in Protein Chemistry) |
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| 1908 | William Libby (Colorado-born Chemist; 1960 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for Development of Radiocarbon Dating) |
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| 1760 | Deborah Sampson (Massachusetts-born Woman Who Served in the American Revolution Disguised as a Man) |
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| 1833 | James Thadeus Holtzclaw (Georgia-born Confederate General) |
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| 1842 | John Maberry (Delaware-born Recipient of the Medal of Honor at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863) |
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| 1927 | Barbara A. Sizemore (Chicago-born African-American Educator) |
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| 1778 | Juan Martín de Veramendi (Mexican Governor of Texas) |
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| 1874 | W.L. MacKenzie King (Prime Minister of Canada: 1921-26, 1926-30, 1935-48) |
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| 1938 | L.C. Dorsey (Mississippi-born African-American Civil Rights Activist) |
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| 1874 | Horace Goldin (Russian-American Magician, Illusionist) |
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| 1910 | Sy Oliver (Michigan-born African-American Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Bandleader) |
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| 1939 | Eddie Kendricks (Alabama-born African-American Popular Singer; Member of "The Temptations") |
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| 1830 | Simón Bolívar (Venezuelan-born General, Statesman Who Brought Political Independence to Five South American Nations) |
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| 1861 | Henry Ruffner (Virginia-born Anti-Slavery Minister, Educator, Author) |
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| 1983 | Josefina Niggli (Mexican Author) |
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| 2008 | Sammy Baugh (Texas-born Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 2009 | Jennifer Jones (Oklahoma-born Actress Awarded 1943 Best Actress Academy Award for Song of Bernadette) |
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| 2011 | Kim Jong Il (North Korean Dictator) |
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| 1538 | Pope Paul III Excommunicates England's King Henry VIII |
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| 1777 | France Formally Recognizes the United States as a Sovereign Nation |
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| 1778 | Americans at Fort Sackville in Vincennes Surrender to a Superior British and Indian force |
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| 1790 | The Aztec Sun Stone Is Unearthed in Mexico City |
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| 1793 | Hancock County Is Created As Georgia's 15th County, in Honor of John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress |
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| 1801 | In the Treaty of Fort Adams, the Choctaw Nation Cedes 2,264,920 Acres of Land Along the Mississippi River to the U.S. for $2,000 |
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| 1803 |
 Clark: Saturday - A cold, fine morning. Took equal altitudes: m m A. M. [38] 38 45 P. M. [3]2 20 41 do [3]8 41 59 " [3]2 21 46=32o 47' 45" do [3]8 43 1 " [3]2 23 45 Missed the altitude at 12 o'clock with the quadrant. |
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Clark: a verry Cold morning the Thrmt. Stood a 43° below 0. We found Mr. Henny a verry intelligent man from whome we obtained Some Scetches of the Countrey between the Mississippi & Missouri, and Some Sketches from him, which he had obtained from the Indins. to the West of this place also the names and charecktors of the Sceoux &c about 8 oClock P M. the thermometer fell to 74° below the freesing pointe— the Indian Chiefs Sent word that Buffalow was in our neighbourhood, and if we would join them, in the morning they would go and kill them—
Ordway:
Some of our men went up to the Mandan Village
a clear & cold morning. the Thurmometer Stood at about 35 fat. it has been Several degrees lower Some days past.
towards evening the chiefs Son came from 1st vill. of the Mandans & Informed us that the Buffalow were comming in towards the River, & that their was a large Gang near the Fort So that our men Scared them back by cutting fire wood for the night.—
Whitehouse: This day was clear and cold weather. Sergt. Gass fixed a horse Sled for one of the N. W. Compy. tradors to go to thier forts with. A number of the North west traders being in the two Villages of the Mandan Nation. They trafficed with the natives for Furr, Peltry & Buffalo hides to a very considerable amount, in the afternoon some Mandan Indians arrived at our Camp, and informed our officers, that the Buffaloes had returned near the River again— |
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| 1805 |
Clark: Some rain last night and a continuation of it this morning. all the men at work about the houses, Some Chiking, Dobbing Cutting out dores &c. &c. The 7 men left to bring in the Elk arrived and informed that they Could not find the meat that the party who Stayed out all night had left— the forepart of this day rained hailed and blew hard, the after part is fair and Cool— a Mountain which is S. E. about 10 mile distant has got Snow on its top which is ruged and uneavin Cause a Small fire & Smoke to be made under the meat which is hung up in Small peaces: The trees which our men have fallen latterly Split verry badly into boards. The most of our Stores are wet. our Leather Lodge has become So rotten that the Smallest thing tares it into holes and it is now Scrcely Sufficent to keep off the rain off a Spot Sufficiently large for our bead. |
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| 1817 | A New Steamboat, Superior, Begins Daily Trips from Philadelphia to Baltimore via Wilmington, Delaware |
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| 1843 | Charles Dickens Publishes A Christmas Carol |
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| 1852 | Columbia County, Arkansas Is Created |
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| 1853 | Johannes Brahms Plays the First Public Performance of His: Piano Sonata No. 1 in C, Op. 1, and "Scherzo" in eb |
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| 1859 | Georgia Law Makes It Illegal for Free African Americans to Enter the State; Those Who Do Will Be Seized and Sold as Slaves |
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| 1860 | President Lincoln Refuses to Compromise on the Further Extension of Slavery in the U.S. |
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| President Lincoln Says There Is No Legal Means for a State to Secede from the Union Without the Consent of the Other States |
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| 1861 | Florida Legislature Appropriates $10,000 for the Purchase of Cloth to be Given to Patriotic Women's Societies to Manufacture Uniforms |
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| 1862 | Upset with Cotton Speculators, General Grant Expels Jews from Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi |
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| 1863 | President Lincoln Proposes a Bureau of Emancipation |
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| U.S. Forces Capture the British Blockade Runner Ringdove and Its 5-Man Crew Off Florida's Indian River Inlet |
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| 1865 | Franz Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony in b (No. "8") Is Premiered in Vienna, Austria |
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| 1877 | Mark Twain Speaks at the Public Celebration of the 70th birthday of John Greenleaf Whittier |
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| 1879 | Anton Dvorák's "String Quartet No. 10, Op. 51" Is First Performed in Prague |
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| 1884 | The Northern Pacific Railroad Reaches Yakima City, Washington, But Won't Stop |
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| 1887 | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Conducts the Russian Symphony in the Premiere of His "Capriccio Espagnol," in St. Petersburg |
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| 1892 | Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker First Performed |
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| 1897 | The Town of LaCrosse Is Incorporated in Alachua County, Florida |
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| Steamship Service from Miami to Nassau and Cuba Is Inaugurated by Henry M. Flagler |
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| 1898 | President McKinley Visits Savannah, Georgia as Part of the Nation's Spanish-American War Victory Celebration |
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| The Oregon Historical Society Is Created |
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| 1902 | The Coat of Arms Is Modified on Georgia's First State Flag |
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| 1903 | Orville Wright Makes the First Sustained, Controlled, Powered Flight: 12 secs/120 ft |
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| 1907 | Ugyen Wangchuck Is Elected as the First Hereditary Monarch of Bhutan |
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| 1915 | Mesaba Transportation Company of Hibbing, Minnesota Is Incorporated and Will Eventually Become the Greyhound Bus Lines |
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| 1917 | In California, Labor Radicals Bomb the Governor's Mansion |
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| 1920 | The League of Nations Grants South Africa a Mandate to Govern South-West Africa (now Namibia) |
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| 1921 | Pierce County, Washington Opens a Bridge over the Carbon River, Providing the First Automobile Access to Fairfax |
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| 1925 | Colonel William "Billy" Mitchell Is Convicted of Insubordination |
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| 1926 | Benny Goodman Records his First Solo "He's The Last Word" |
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| 1927 | Off the Massachusetts Coast, Navy Submarine S-4 Sinks When Hit by a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter, Killing 6 |
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| 1929 | A Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake Is Centered on Alaska's Near Islands |
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| The U.S.S. Lexington Docks at Tacoma, Washington to Help the City Overcome Its Power Shortage |
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| 1931 | A Magnitude 4.6 Earthquake Is the Largest in Mississippi's Recorded History |
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| 1932 | In Garland County, Arkansas, Construction Is Completed on the Ouachita River's Carpenter Dam |
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| 1933 | The Chicago Bears Defeat the New York Giants 23-21 to Win the NFL Championship at Wrigley Field |
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| 1936 | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Debut on Radio |
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| 1939 | German Battleship Graf Spee Is Scuttled Off Uruguay |
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| 1941 | Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, U.S. Commander at Pearl Harbor, Is Relieved of His Post |
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| 1942 | British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Condemns the Persecution of Jews in Eastern Europe |
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| In Minneapolis, the Elizabeth Kenny Institute for the Treatment of Infantile Paralysis Is Dedicated in Honor of the Australian Nurse |
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| 1944 | A Military Proclamation Approves the Release of Japanese Americans from Internment Camps |
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| German Tanks, Aircraft and Paratroops Cross the Luxembourg And Belgian Borders in a Massive Ardennes Counter-Offensive |
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| 1947 | A Prototype of Boeing's First Jet Bomber, the B-47, Makes Its Maiden Flight Over Washington |
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| 1949 | The African National Congress (ANC) Adopts a Programme of Action to Protest Apartheid in South Africa |
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| Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire Closes in New York After 855 Performances. |
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| 1951 | The Radio Show of Texas Storyteller John Henry Faulk Debuts on WCBS |
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| 1953 | The FCC Approves RCA's Color Television Specifications As Industry Standard |
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| Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 Is First Performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic |
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| 1957 | A Plane Operated by the Stanford Research Institute Crashes on Alaska's Gravina Island |
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| U.S. Test-Fires Its First Intercontinental Ballistic Missile on a 500-Mile Flight from Cape Canaveral |
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| 1959 | On the Beach Opens in Theaters |
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| 1960 | Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie Returns from Brazil to Suppress a Coup at Home |
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| 1961 | A Fire at a Circus in Brazil Kills More Than 300 People and Severely Burns Hundreds More |
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| 1963 | Congress Passes the Clean Air Act |
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| The C-141A Aircraft Makes Its First Successful Test Flight over Georgia's Dobbins AFB |
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| 1965 | The Supremes Performance Opens Houston Astrodome |
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| 1966 | At the University of Minnesota Hospitals, Doctors Perform the World's First Successful Kidney and Pancreas Transplant |
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| Built for the Washington State Ferries, the Superferry Hyak Is Launched at the San Diego Yard of the National Steel & Shipbuilding Company |
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| 1969 | US Air Force Closes 22-yr Investigation into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) |
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| 1974 | The 1,000,000th U.S. Trademark Is Issued to Cumberland Packing Corporation for the G Clef and Staff Design Used on "Sweet'n Low" |
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| 1975 | In Sacramento, California, Lynette Fromme Is Sentenced to Life in Prison for the Attempted Assassination of President Gerald Ford |
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| The NAACP Presents Its Annual Spingarn Medal to Baseball Player Hank Aaron |
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| 1976 | Atlanta, Georgia Television Station WTCG-TV Change to WTBS, Broadcasting Via Satellite and Cable as America's First America's Super Station |
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| 1979 | Missouri Stunt Man, Stan Barrett Drives the First Rocket Car to Break the Sound Barrier at 739.666 mph. |
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| 1981 | Leah Aleice Simms Is Appointed County Judge of Dade County; the First African-American Woman to Hold a Judgeship in Florida |
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| 1983 | An IRA Car Bomb Kills 6 and Injures 90 at London's Harrods Department Store |
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| 1989 | The First Episode of 'The Simpsons' Airs as a Christmas Special |
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| 1990 | Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a Roman Catholic Priest and Opponent of Dictator of Jean-Claude Duvalier, Is Elected President of Haiti in a Landslide |
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| Winter Storms Cause More Than $3 Million Damage to the Vessels and Ferry Terminals Operated by Washington State Ferries |
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| 1991 | The Announcement Is Made That the Soviet Union Will Cease to Exist on or Before January 1, 1992 |
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| 1992 | U.S., Canada & Mexico Sign the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) |
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| 1993 | American Troops Pull Out of Somalia Following a Series of Gun Battles with Local Militias |
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| 1994 | In Montreal, 26-year-old Popular Singer, Céline Dion, Marries Her 51-year-old Longtime Manager René Angélil |
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| 1996 | Leftist Rebels Begin a 4-month Occupation of the Japanese Embassy in Lima, Peru, Holding 490 People Hostage |
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| Kofi Annan of Ghana Is Appointed United Nations Secretary-General. |
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