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1944—Bretton Woods Conference establishes IMF & World Bank
Avalon Project (W)
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1890—President Harrison signs Sherman Antitrust Act
The President's Roles and Responsibilities:
Communicating with the President (LP)
1925, Born—Patrice Lumumba, Zaire, revolutionary
Art and Life in Africa Online: Congo (W)
Born 1908—Thurgood Marshall, first African-American Supreme Court Justice
Oyez Project at Northwestern University (W)
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Born 1883—Franz Kafka
Goethe Institute (W)
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1776—Congress approves Declaration of Independence
The Constitutional Convention: Four Founding Fathers You May Never Have Met(LP)
The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said (LP)
1804: born—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne: Author and Narrator (LP)
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1962—Algeria declared its independence from France
Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal! (LP)
1811 Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence from Spain
Conquistadors (W)
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The American President (W)
1964—Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain—Independence Day
African Studies WWW (W)
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1621: born—French fable-writer Jean de La Fontaine
Fairy Tales Around the World (LP)
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire: The Poet of Sickness and Evil (LP)
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Died 1941—Jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton
Jazz and World War II (LP)
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Born 1817—Henry David Thoreau
More Amazing Americans: A Web Quest (LP)
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Born 100 B.C.—Julius Caesar
In Old Pompeii (LP)
VROMA (W)
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Born 1912—Woody Guthrie, folk singer
Dust Bowl Days (LP)
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1790—Congress declared Washington, DC, the permanent capital of the U.S.
A Landmark Lesson:
The U.S. Capitol Building (LP)
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1959—Paleontologist Mary Leakey discovered one of the oldest hominid skulls in Tanzania
Kennewick Man (LP)
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Died 1792—John Paul Jones, in Paris
Portrait of a Hero (LP)
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1848—First Women's Right's Convention, Seneca Falls, NY
Cultural Change (LP)
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Born 1886—Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese author
Teaching (and Learning) About Japan (W)
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Died 1946—Gertrude Stein
Academy of American Poets (W)
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Born 1919—Primo Levi, author of Survival in Aushchwitz
Holocaust and Resistance (LP)
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