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Today's 5-Minute Quest
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 Use all of these letters to spell the name of a children's author born on this date:
LIE PLY ENVELOPE |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a work by Kate Greenaway (according to the University of Southern Mississippi):
MOOSE GOT HER |
(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 play in which Helen Hayes appeared in the 1960s (according to the Internet Broadway Database):
OF HOW SHEFT
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Catholicism: St. Patrick's Day
(Commemorates the death of St. Patrick: 03/17/461) |
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United States: Camp Fire USA
(Annual March 17 observance commemorates founding in 1910) |
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Boston, Massachusetts: Evacuation Day
(Observed annually on March 17 since 1901 to celebrate the end of the British occupation of Boston in 1776) |
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| 1846 | Kate Greenaway (English Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1933 | Penelope Lively (English Children's Author) |
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| 1894 | Paul Green (North Carolina-born Playwright Awarded the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Drama: In Abraham's Bosom) |
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| 1901 | Turner Catledge (Journalist: Executive Editor of the New York Times) |
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| 1904 | Patrick Hamilton (English Author) |
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| 1948 | William Ford Gibson III (South Carolina-born Science Fiction Writer Who Coined the Term "Cyberspace") |
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| 1686 | Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French Rococo Painter, Designer, Illustrator) |
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| 1866 | Alice Austen (New York City-born Photographer) |
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| 1920 | John LaMontaine (Chicago-born Composer) |
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| 1938 | Rudolf Nureyev (Russian Ballet Dancer) |
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| 1806 | Norbert Rillieux (New Orleans-born African-American Engineer, Inventor) |
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| 1849 | Charles Brush (Ohio-born Inventor) |
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| 1881 | Walter Rudolf Hess (Swiss Nobel Prize-winning Physiologist) |
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| 1804 | Jim Bridger (Virginia-born Pioneer, Frontiersman) |
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| 1884 | Frank "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Buck (Texas-born Animal Trapper) |
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| 1939 | Robin Knox-Johnston (English Adventurer; First Person to Sail Non-stop and Solo Around the World) |
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| 1777 | Roger Brooke Taney (Maryland-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1825 | Benjamin Sterling Turner (North Carolina-born Politician Who Served as the First African-American Congressman from Alabama) |
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| 1849 | Patrick Cudahy (Irish-American Wisconsin Business Leader, Philanthropist) |
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| 1862 | Homer Plessy (New Orleans African-American Civil Rights Activist Named in the Landmark Case of Plessy v. Ferguson) |
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| 1866 | Pierce Butler (Minnesota-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1912 | Bayard Rustin (Pennsylvania-born African-American Civil Rights Activist) |
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| 1933 | Myrlie Evers (Mississippi-born Wife of Medgar Evers; Chairperson of the Board of Directors Chair of the NAACP) |
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| 1920 | Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Founding father of Bangladesh) |
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| 1955 | Cynthia McKinney (Georgia's First African-American Female Congressional Representative) |
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| 1899 | Shemp Howard (According to some sources May 4: New York-born Comedic Actor; Member of the "Three Stooges") |
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| 1919 | Nat "King" Cole (Alabama-born African-American Jazz Musician, Singer) |
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| 1944 | John Sebastian (New York City-born Popular Musician; Member of the "Lovin' Spoonful") |
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| 1951 | Kurt Russell (Massachusetts-born Actor) |
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| 1954 | Lesley-Anne Down (English Actress) |
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| 1955 | Gary Sinise (Illinois-born Actor) |
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| 1964 | Rob Lowe (Virginia-born Actor) |
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| 1902 | Bobby Jones (Georgia-born Member of the Golf Hall of Fame) |
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| 1970 | Mia Hamm (Alabama-born Olympic and World Champion Soccer Player) |
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| 461 | St. Patrick (Catholic Saint) |
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| 1902 | George W. Warren (New York-born Organist, Hymnist: Author of the National Hymn: "God of Our Fathers") |
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| 1929 | Bascom B. Clarke (Wisconsin Farm Publisher) |
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| 1993 | Helen Hayes (Washington, D.C.-born Actress) |
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| 1734 | Salzburgers (Persecuted Protestants from Salzburg) Settle at What Will Be Ebenezer, Georgia |
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| 1737 | Charitable Irish Society of Boston Hosts America's First Saint Patrick's Day Municipal Celebration |
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| 1762 | Irish Soldiers Serving in the British Army Hold the First Saint Patrick's Day Parade in New York City |
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| 1776 | British Troops Retreat to Their Ships. Continental Army Reoccupies Boston |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a windey Day attempted to air our goods
Mr. Chabonah Sent a french man of our party that he was Sorry for the foolissh part he had acted and if we pleased Ordway: clear and pleasant. all the Indian Goods put out to air also the parched Meal. Mr. Sharbonow began to move his baggage across the river in order to Go up to the Grossvantares to live. had Got the most of his things across the River he concluded and agreed to Go with us. then moved his effects back to the Fort, & pitched a lodge near the Fort. the wind high from the West. Warner has lost his Tommahawk, expect the Indians Stole it. |
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| 1806 |
Clark: we have had our Canoes prepared for our departure, and Shall Set out as Soon as the weather will permit. the weather is So precarious that we fear by waiting untill the first of April that we might be detained Several days longer before we could get from this to the Cath-lah-mahs, as it must be Calm or we cannot accomplish that part of the rout in our Canoes. Drewyer returned late this evening from the Cath-lah-mahs with our Indian Canoe which Sergt. Pryor had left Some days since, and also a Canoe, which he had purchased from those people. for this canoe he gave Captn. Lewis's uniform laced coat and nearly half a Carrot of tobacco. it Seams that nothing except this Coat would induce them to dispose of a Canoe which in their mode of traffic is an article of the greatest value except a wife, with whome it is nearly equal, and is generally given in exchange to the father for his Daughter. I think that the United States are in justice indebted to Captn Lewis another uniform Coat for that of which he has disposed of on this ocasion, it was but little worn. We yet want another Canoe as the Clatsops will not Sell us one, a proposition has been made by one of our interpt and Several of the party to take one in lieu of 6 Elk which they Stole from us this winter |
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| 1806 | In Indiana, Joshua, a Christian Indian, Is Burned at the Stake by the Shawnee for Witchcraft |
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| 1808 | The City of Detroit Holds Its First Saint Patrick's Day Celebration |
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| 1812 | Spain Surrenders Fernandina, Florida to U.S. Troops and Florida Patriots |
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| 1828 | Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat, Nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, Is Admitted to Practice Law in Florida |
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| 1830 | Frederic Chopin Makes His Concert Debut in Warsaw, Poland, Performing His Own Piano Concerto in f-minor |
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| 1842 | The Wyandotte Indians Sign a Treaty Relinquishing Their Lands in Michigan and Ohio |
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| 1847 | The Michigan State Legislature Meets in Detroit for the Last Time Before Moving to Lansing |
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| 1851 | St. Paul Hosts Minnesota's First St. Patrick's Day Parade |
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| 1855 | The First Law School in Texas Is Created at Austin College |
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| 1859 | Residents of Corvallis Begin a 10:00 p.m. Celebration upon Learning of Oregon's Admission to the Union |
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| 1862 | U.S. Treasury Sanctions Two Issues of Greenbacks |
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| President Lincoln Accepts from Philanthropist, Cornelius Vanderbilt, a Yacht Offered as a Gift to the Government |
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| 1863 | Union Cavalry Holds Its Own in the Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia |
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| 1865 | President Lincoln Calls for Arrest and Court Martial of Any Person Furnishing Arms to Hostile Indians |
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| President Lincoln Speaks to the 140th Indiana Regiment, Which Captured Fort Anderson, NC |
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| 1866 | Georgia Law Defines "Persons of Color" and Grants Them the Same Rights As Whites |
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| 1869 | Iowa State University Begins Its First Term of Classes |
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| 1870 | Massachusetts Legislature Authorizes Incorporation of Wellesley College |
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| 1879 | New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace Meets Billy the Kid on Condition That The Kid testify Against Others in Exchange for Immunity |
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| 1884 | Californian John J. Montgomery Pilots a Home-Made Glider from Wheeler Hill near San Diego, Traveling 200 - 600' |
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| 1888 | Henry James' Essay, "Guy de Maupassant," Is Published in the English Magazine Fortnightly Review |
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| 1891 | West Virginia State University Is Established as the West Virginia Colored Institute |
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| 1894 | 18 Dutch Colonists Arrive on Washington's Whidbey Island and Settle in Oak Harbor |
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| 1899 | German Ship Elbe Runs Aground in Fog, Sends First Radio Distress Signal |
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| 1901 | Vincent Van Gogh's Paintings Are First Shown at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery in Paris |
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| 1905 | Eleanor Roosevelt Marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York |
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| 1906 | 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 1,300 in Kagi, Formosa (Taiwan) |
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| 1910 | Camp Fire Girls Is Formed As the First U.S. Organization Open to Girls of All Religions |
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| 1912 | The U.S. Marines, Withdraw from Sitka, Alaska Where a Contingent Had Been Stationed Since 1879. |
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| 1914 | New York Fifth Avenue Coach Co. Introduces First Bus with Seats Facing Forward |
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| 1917 | France's Prime Minister, Aristide Briand, Resigns Under Pressure |
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| 1922 | Atlanta Constitution Begins Operation of WGST, Radio |
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| 1925 | Explosion in Bethlehem Mine No. 41 Kills 33 Coal Miners in Barrackville, West Virginia |
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| 1929 | The President of the University of Detroit Threatens to Expel Any Coed Caught Talking to Boys |
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| 1933 | Human Nature by Edith Wharton is Published by D. Appleton and Company |
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| 1940 | Dr. Fritz Todt Is Appointed Nazi Minister for Weapons and Munitions |
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| 1941 | The National Gallery of Art Opens in Washington, D.C. |
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| Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Airport Is Named in Honor of General Billy Mitchell |
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| 1942 | Gen. MacArthur Supreme Becomes Allied Commander of Southwest Pacific Theater |
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| 1943 | A Commission Is Created to Revise Georgia's Reconstruction-era Constitution of 1877 |
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| 1946 | Jackie Robinson Plays His First Exhibition Game with the Brooklyn Dodgers in Daytona Beach, Florida |
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| 1948 | Zelda Fitzgerald is Buried with F. Scott Fitzgerald in Rockville Union Cemetery, Rockville, Maryland |
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| 1949 | First Car with the Porsche Family Name Is Introduced at Swiss Automobile Show |
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| 1950 | California Berkeley Scientists Announce Synthesis of the Element Californium |
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| 1953 | Tennessee Williams' Camino Real Is First performed at the National Theater in New York City |
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| 1954 | Quincy Porter's Pulitzer Prize-Winning "Concerto Concertante" for Two Pianos and Orchestra Is First Performed in Louisville, Kentucky |
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| 1957 | A Blizzard Drops 24" of Snow on Duluth, Minnesota |
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| 1958 | U.S. Launches Its Second Satellite Vanguard I to Test 3-Stage Rocket |
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| 1959 | The 24-year-old Dalai Lama Begins His Escape from Tibet to Avoid Abduction by the Chinese |
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| 1962 | Wing Luke (Seattle City Council) Is First Chinese American Elected to a Major Post in the Continental U.S.A |
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| 1963 | Mount Agung on Bali Erupts, Killing at Least 11,000 People |
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| 1964 | LBJ and National Security Council Secretly Escalate U.S. Role in Vietnam |
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| 1966 | Submarine Locates U.S. Hydrogen Bomb Fallen from Aircraft into Mediterranean |
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| 1968 | 200 Are Arrested as Thousands Protest the Vietnam War Outside U.S. Embassy in London |
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| 1969 | Golda Meir Sworn in As Israel's First Female Prime Minister |
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| Florida Marks the End of 768 Consecutive Days of Sunshine |
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| 1970 | U.S. Army Accuses 14 Officers of Covering Up the My Lai Massacre |
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| The Alabama Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville Is Dedicated |
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| 1973 | 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 14 on the Philippines island of Luzon |
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| 1975 | First U.S. Doctor's Strike Takes Place in 21 New York City Hospitals |
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| 1978 | Thousands Flee Southern Lebanon as Israeli Attacks Continue for Third Day |
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| 1980 | PBS Broadcasts a Production of William Faulkner's Short Story, Barn Burning |
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| 1985 | 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered Near the Central Coast of Chile |
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| 1988 | Apple Sues Microsoft for Copying the Macintosh Interface for Windows 2.0 |
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| 1990 | Lithuania Rejects Soviet Demand to Renounce Its Independence |
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| 1992 | In National Referendum, South Africa's Whites Overwhelmingly Vote to End Apartheid |
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| 1995 | Sinn Fein Leader Gerry Adams Meets President Bill Clinton |
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| 1999 | National Academy of Sciences Supports Medical Value of Marijuana |
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| Six International Olympic Committee Members Expelled in Bribery Scandal |
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| 2005 | Players Testify to Congress About Use of Illicit Drugs in Major League Baseball |
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| 2008 | Legally Blind, David Paterson Becomes the First African-American Governor of New York |
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