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1937
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Jean Van Leeuwen (New Jersey-born Children's Author)
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1716
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Thomas Gray (English Poet)
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1820
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Dion Boucicault (Irish-American Playwright, Actor)
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1891
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Henry Miller (New York City-born Author)
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1894
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Nathaniel Jean Toomer (Washington, D.C.-born African-American Poet, Novelist)
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1926
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Doris Lilly (California-born Columnist)
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1956
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David Sedaris (New York-born Humorist)
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1893
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Robert Ripley (California-born Newspaper Cartoonist; Founder of "Ripley's Believe It or Not!")
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1926
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Earle Brown (Massachusetts-born Composer, Conductor)
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1792
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Charles Babbage (English Mathematician Who Designed and Built the First Forerunners to the Modern Digital Computer)
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1861
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Emil Wiechert (German Pioneer in the Science of Seismology)
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1926
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Martin Cooper (Chicago-born Inventor of the Cell Phone)
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1837
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George Dewey (Vermont-born Admiral in the United States Navy)
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1813
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Andrew Hunter (Irish-American Preacher; President of the Arkansas State Senate)
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1873
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Norman Angell (English Economist; 1933 Nobel Laureate for Peace)
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1893
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Mao Zedong (Leader of the Chinese Communist Revolution)
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1945
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John Walsh (New York-born Creator and Host of America's Most Wanted Television Show)
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1914
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Richard Widmark (Minnesota-born Actor)
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1915
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Una Mae Carlisle (Ohio-born African-American Jazz Singer, Pianist, Songwriter)
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1921
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Steve Allen (New York City-born Television Entertainer, Songwriter, Creator of the Tonight Show)
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1940
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Phil Spector (New York City-born Record Producer, Songwriter)
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1954
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Susan Butcher (Massachusetts-born Dogsled Racer; 4-time Winner of the Alaska Iditarod)
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1800
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John Patten (Delaware-born Veteran of the Revolutionary War; Member of the U.S. Congress)
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1890
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Pete French (Eastern Oregon Cattle Baron: Shot and Killed)
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1908
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Claus Spreckels (German-American Sugar Magnate)
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1970
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Lillian Board (22-year-old English Track and Field Champion)
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1972
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Harry Truman (Missouri-born 33rd President of the United States)
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1974
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Jack Benny (Illinois-born Comedian)
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1987
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Pauline G. Fiore (Madison Wisconsin Business Leader)
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1990
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Sister Mary Giovanni Gourhan (Founder of the Guadalupe Alternative Programs (GAP) in St. Paul, Minnesota)
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1999
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Curtis Mayfield (Chicago-born African-American Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
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2000
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Jason Robards (Chicago-born Actor)
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1604
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William Shakespeare's Play Measure for Measure Is Performed at the Court of King James I of England
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1606
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William Shakespeare's Play King Lear Is Performed at the Court of King James I of England
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1662
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Molière's The School for Wives Premieres in the Theatre of the Palais-Royal.
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1723
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J.S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 40 and "Magnificat" in E-flat Are Performed As the Second Day of Bach's First Annual Sacred Cantata Cycle
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1724
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J.S. Bach's "Sacred Cantata No. 121" Is Performed As Bach's Second Annual Sacred Cantata Cycle in Leipzig, Germany
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1725
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J.S. Bach's "Sacred Cantata No. 57" Is Performed As Bach's Third Annual Sacred Cantata Cycle in Leipzig, Germany
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1728
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J.S. Bach's "Sacred Cantata No. 197a" Is Performed As Bach's Fourth Sacred Cantata Cycle in Leipzig, Germany
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1776
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Washington Achieves First Major U.S. Victory by Surprising Hessian Forces at Trenton, New Jersey
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1799
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George Washington Is Eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
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1811
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68 of Richmond's Most Prominent Citizens, Including the Governor of Virginia, Perish in a Theater Fire
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1820
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Moses Austin Meets Spanish Authorities in San Antonio Asking Permission to Settle 300 Anglo-American Families in Texas
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1827
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Madison and Hamilton Counties Are Established as Florida's 14th & 15th Counties
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1831
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Cherokee and Sumter Counties Are Created as Georgia's 79th & 80th Counties
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1833
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Opposing President Andrew Jackson, Kentucky Senator Henry Clay Speaks Out in Favor of the Bank of the United States
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1834
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The Orphaned Edgar Allan Poe Is Taken Into the Home of John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia
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1835
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The State of Georgia Prohibits the Use of Slaves in the Mixing and Dispensing of Any Drug or Medicine
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1848
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Husband and Wife Slaves, Ellen and William Craft, Begin Their Escape to Freedom from Georgia to Philadelphia
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1850
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Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey Declares Minnesota's First Thanksgiving Day
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1853
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In New York Harbor, the Clipper Ship Great Republic Burns to the Water Line a Day Before Its Maiden Voyage
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1861
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President Lincoln Ends the Trent Affair by Releasing Confederate Diplomatic Envoys James Mason and John Slidell
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1862
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President Lincoln Meets with His Cabinet to Discuss the New State of West Virginia
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38 Dakota Indians, Convicted of Crimes Committed During the U.S.–Dakota War, Are Hanged in Mankato, Minnesota
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Pro-Union Tejanos Lynch Secessionist Judge in Zapata County, Texas
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1864
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Union General Sherman Issues Special Field Order No. 143 to the Residents of Savannah, Georgia
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President Lincoln Telegraphs Congratulations to General Sherman on His Capture of Savannah, Georgia
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1865
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James H. Nason of Franklin, Massachusetts Receives a Patent for a Coffee Percolator
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1870
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In Canada, a 6.5 Magnitude Earthquake Has Its Epicenter Between Montreal and Quebec
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1874
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Joseph McComb Leads a Party Out From Fort Griffin on the First Commercial Buffalo Hunt in Texas
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1886
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Tacoma Light and Water Co. Illuminates the City's Streets for the First Time
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1892
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Meeting in Augusta, 34 African-American Editors and Publishers Form the Negro Press Association of Georgia
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1908
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Jack Johnson Is the First African American to Win the World Heavyweight Boxing Title Knocking Out Canadian Tommy Burns
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1917
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Woodrow Wilson Announces the Nationalization of Most U.S. Railroads under the Federal Possession and Control Act
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1926
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English Major C Court Treatt Completes the First Overland Crossing of Africa from Cape Town to Cairo (27months, 13,000 miles)
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1929
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The City of Independence Heights Is Formally Annexed by Houston
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1933
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The Nissan Motor Company Is Organized in Tokyo Under the Name Dat Jidosha Seizo Co.
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New York Radio Pioneer, Edwin Armstrong, Is Granted a Patent for a Two-Path FM Radio
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1935
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West Virginia Opera Singer, Susanne Fisher, Makes Her Debut at the Metropolitan Opera
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1936
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The First Concert of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra Is Performed In Tel Aviv, Israel
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The Ohio Legislature Enacts a Law to Provide Unemployment Insurance for the State's Workers
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1939
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President Franklin Roosevelt Is Given a Private Viewing of "Gone With The Wind" at the White House
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1941
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Winston Churchill Is the First British Prime Minister to Address the U.S. Congress
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1943
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German Battle Cruiser Scharnhorst Is Sunk by British Warships in the Arctic
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1944
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Patton's Troops Relieve Besieged Allied Defenders of Bastogne, Belgium, During the Battle of the Bulge
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Floyd M. Edwards of Kalamazoo Is Michigan's First World War II Veteran to Take Advantage of the "G.I. Bill of Rights"
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Tennessee Williams' Play The Glass Menagerie Opens in Chicago
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1947
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New York City Is Buried Under 25.8" of Snow in 16 Hours; 80 People Die
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1955
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Porgy and Bess Opens in Leningrad
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1960
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The Philadelphia Eagles Defeat the Green Bay Packers 17-13 to Win the National Football League Championship
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1966
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China's People's Daily Editorial Calls for the Extension of the Cultural Revolution to Rid China of Capitalists
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The First Day of the First Kwanzaa Is Celebrated in Los Angeles
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1971
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Air Canada Flight 932 Is Hijacked from Toronto to Cuba
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1979
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Patriotic Front Guerrillas Return to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) to Help Monitor a Ceasefire and Change to Black Minority Rule
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1986
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8.3 Magnitude Earthquake Has Its Epicenter Located in New Zealand's Kermadec Islands Region
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1988
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A Suitcase Is the First Clue Found in the Crash of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland
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1998
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Two Top Leaders Defect from Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Rebel Organization
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1999
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Alfonso Portillo Scores a Resounding Victory in Guatemala's First Peacetime Presidential Elections in Nearly 40 years
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2004
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Second-most Powerful Earthquake Ever Recorded Triggers a Tsunami Leaving 230,000 Dead in 7 Countries
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