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DECEMBER 20 |
  
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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 Lulu Delacre (according to the "My Books Section" of her official website):
ASIA LESS SORT |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a novel by John Steinbeck:
WORN CRANEY |
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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 solo project by John Fletcher (according to the History Channel):
CHIDE WAGS LOOSE |
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Mexico: Las Posadas (Day 5 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 5 of 9 early morning Christmas masses) |
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| 1936 | Carol Farley (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author) |
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| 1940 | M.B. Goffstein (Minnesota-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1945 | Dennis Brindell Fradin (Chicago-born Children's Author) |
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| 1955 | Michael J. Caduto (Rhode Island-born Children's Science Author) |
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| 1957 | Lulu Delacre (Puerto Rican Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1579 | John Fletcher (English Playwright |
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| 1902 | Max Lerner (Belarus-born American Newspaper Columnist) |
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| 1911 | Hortense Calisher (New York City-born Novelist and Short Story Writer) |
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| 1918 | W. Eugene Smith (Kansas-born Photojournalist) |
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| 1927 | David Markson (New York-born Novelist) |
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| 1946 | Andrei Codrescu (Romanian-born American Poet, Novelist, Essayist, Educator) |
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| 1954 | Elizabeth Benedict (Connecticut-born Novelist) |
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| 1871 | Henry Hadley (Massachusetts-born Composer, Conductor) |
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| 1938 | John Harbison (New Jersey-born Composer, Conductor) |
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| 1935 | William Julius Wilson (Pennsylvania-born African-American Scholar, Educator) |
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| 1833 | Samuel Mudd (Maryland-born Doctor Accused of Aiding John Wilkes Booth in the Assassination of President Lincoln) |
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| 1876 | Walter Adams (American Astronomer) |
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| 1901 | Robert J. Van de Graaff (Alabama-born Physicist Who Developed the Van de Graaff Particle Accelerator) |
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| 1868 | Harvey Firestone (Ohio-born Founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company) |
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| 1865 | Maud Gonne (English-born Nationalist for Irish Independence) |
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| 1898 | Irene Dunne (Kentucky-born Actress) |
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| 1921 | George Roy Hill (Minnesota-born Academy Award-Winning Director) |
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| 1957 | Billy Bragg (English Popular Musician) |
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| 1881 | Branch Rickey (Ohio-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1886 | Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (California-born Member of the Tennis Hall of Fame) |
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| 1900 | Gabby Hartnett (Rhode Island-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1942 | Bob Hayes (Florida-born African-American Member of the Track and Field Hall of Fame) |
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| 1812 | Sacajawea (Shoshone Indian Who Helped to Guide the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery) |
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| 1961 | Moss Hart (New York City-born Playwright) |
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| 1968 | John Steinbeck (California-born 1962 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1984 | William Kaynor (Iowa-born Member of the U.S. Congress from Massachusetts; Airplane Crash) |
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| 1973 | Carrero Blanco (Premier of Spain: Assassination) |
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| Bobby Darin (New York City-born Singer. Songwriter) |
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| 1996 | Carl Sagan (New York City-born Astronomer, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author) |
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| 2007 | Lydia Mendoza (Texas-born Tejano Singer) |
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| 1576 | Archbishop of Canterbury Protests Queen Elizabeth's Order Limiting Preachers to 3-4 Sermons/Year |
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| 1606 | Virginia Company Expedition to America Sets Sail from London |
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| 1699 | Czar Peter the Great Changes Russian New Year to January 1 |
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| 1783 | Virginia Cedes Its Western Land to the Federal Government |
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| 1790 | America's First Cotton Mill Begins Production in Rhode Island |
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| 1791 | British Government Declares Detroit to be Part of Canada |
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| 1803 | U.S. Completes $27M Purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France |
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| C.C. Claiborne Is Appointed as the First American Governor of the Province of Louisiana |
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| 1803 |
 Clark: Tuesday - I detained the wagon to haul logs for my building. Hauled logs today with the commissaries team. Men moved into their huts this evening. Chronometer stopped last night. I wound it up at 12 today, and, as usual, it now goes. A hard frosty morning. |
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| 1804 |
Clark: The wind from the N W a moderate day, the Thermometr 37° [WC: 24°] above 0, which givs an oppertunity of putting up our pickets next the river, nothing remarkable took place to Day river fall a little Ordway: Some cloudy & Warm this morning, but a pleasant day. we continued Setting up the pickets &.C. Whitehouse: This day we had moderate weather, the Snow melting fast. the Men were all employed picketting the fort as usual.— |
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| 1805 |
Clark: Some rain and hail last night and the rained Continued untill 10 oClock a,m, Men all employd in Carrying punchens or boads & Covering the houses, 4 of which were Covered to day, the after part of the day Cloudy with Several Showers of rain— 3 Indians arrive in a Canoe. they brought with them mats, roots & Sackacome berries to Sell for which they asked Such high prices that we did not purchase any of them. Those people ask generally double and tribble the value of what they have to Sell, and never take less than the real value of the article in Such things as is calculated to do them Service. Such as Blue & white beeds, with which they trade with the naivs above; files which they make use of to Sharpen their tools, fish hooks of different Sises and tobacco— Tobacco and blue beeds they do prefur to every thing. |
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| 1828 | Randolph County, Georgia is Created in Honor of John Randolph of Virginia |
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| 1835 | Residents of Golida, Texas Declare Their Independence from Mexico |
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| 1836 | Republic of Texas Creates a Post Office Department |
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| 1841 | U.S. Infantry Fight Seminole Warriors in Florida's Big Cypress Swamp |
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| 1843 | In Central Oregon, Abert Rim and Lake Abert Are Discovered by Lt. John Fremont |
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| 1845 | The Baldwin Institute (Baldwin-Wallace University) Is Founded in Berea, Ohio |
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| 1847 | Land Is Provided in Stillwater, Wisconsin Territory, to Construct What Will Be the First County Courthouse in Minnesota |
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| 1849 | Democrat Peter H. Burnett Is Inaugurated as California's First State Governor |
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| 1851 | Polk and Spalding Counties, Georgia Are Created |
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| 1853 | Fulton and Worth Counties, Georgia Are Created |
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| 1856 | Newberry College Is Chartered in Newberry, South Carolina |
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| U.S. Infantry Fight Seminole Warriors in Florida's Big Cypress Swamp |
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| 1859 | Lincoln Provides Autobiographical Sketch for Jesse Fell of Bloomington, Illinois |
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| The Town of Delmar, Delaware Is Founded Along a New Railroad Route |
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| Washington Territorial Legislature Charters Whitman Seminary (Whitman College) |
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| 1860 | South Carolina Is the First State to Secede from the Union |
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| 1862 | Confederates Raid Grant's Mississippi Supply Depot |
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| Lincoln Refuses to Accept Resignations of Seward and Chase |
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| 1863 | Union Troops Capture & Burn Confederate Steamer Little Lilly on Florida's Suwannee River |
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| A Landmark of St. Paul, Minnesota, the American House Hotel, Burns |
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| 1864 | Confederate Forces Evacuate Savannah, GA |
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| 1879 | Jacksonville, Florida's Southern Bell Telephone Company Is Chartered |
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| 1883 | The First Cantilever Bridge Across Niagara Falls Is Dedicated |
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| 1886 | The Driskill Hotel Opens in Austin, Texas |
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| 1888 | Body of Rose Mylett, Probable Victim of Jack the Ripper, Found in London |
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| 1893 | Georgia Law Makes Mob Lynching a Felony Subject to 1-20 Years in Prison |
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| 1899 | Georgia Law Requires Segregated Accommodations on Railroads |
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| 1902 | Clearwater County, Minnesota Is Established |
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| 1905 | The SS Portland Is Stranded on Alaska's Spire Island Reef Near Ketchikan, Suffering $20,000 Damage |
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| 1911 | Denman Arena Opens in Vancouver, Canada as the World's Largest Artificial Ice Rink |
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| 1914 | First Battle of Champagne Begins |
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| 1915 | Igor Stravinsky Makes His Public Debut as a Conductor, Leading a Performance of His "Firebird" Ballet Suite in Geneva, Switzerland |
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| 1920 | The Mail Steamer, SS Dora, Wrecks at Hardy Bay, Vancouver Island and Is a Total Loss |
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| 1929 | The Madison, Indiana-Milton, Kentucky Bridge Is Opened Across the Ohio River |
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| 1930 | Congress Approves a Federal Fish Hatchery to be Located in Leetown, West Virginia |
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| 1932 | Al Jolson Records "April Showers" |
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| 1940 | 5.5 Magnitude Earthquake Near Ossipee Lake Is Largest in New Hampshire's Recorded History |
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| 1942 | 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Leaves 3,000 Dead in Turkey |
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| 1943 | The Patrol Frigate U.S.S. Albuquerque Is Commissioned at Richmond, California |
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| 1946 | 8.4 Magnitude Earthquake and 10' Wave Kill 1,330 in Japan |
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| Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life Premieres in New York City Starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed |
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| The Yearling Is Trademarked |
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| 1956 | Martin Luther King Reads Statement Ending Montgomery, AL Bus Boycott |
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| 1957 | Elvis Presley Receives His Draft Notice for the U.S. Army |
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| 1960 | National Liberation Front (NLF) Forms in North Vietnam |
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| 1962 | Don Meyers Sets World Indoor Pole Vault Record: 16' 1 1/4" |
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| 1963 | The Berlin Wall Is Opened for Family Visits |
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| 1966 | The National Basketball Association Awards a Franchise to the City of Seattle |
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| 1973 | Spanish Premier Carrero Blanco Assassinated in Madrid |
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| 1981 | Dreamgirls Opens at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway |
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| 1989 | U.S. Troops Launch Operation Just Cause to Panamanian Dictator Manuel Noriega |
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| 1991 | Ante Markovic Resigns As Federal Prime Minister of Yugoslavia |
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| 1995 | NATO Assumes Peacekeeping Duties in Bosnia |
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| Province of Macau Transferred from Portugal to China |
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| 1999 | Vermont Supreme Court Rules Same-Sex Couples Entitled to Same Protections as Heterosexual Wedded Couples |
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| NASA Launches the ACRIM3 Satellite to Monitor Variability of Solar Irradiance |
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| 2005 | Federal Judge in Pennsylvania Strikes Down Teaching of Intelligent Design in Schools |
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