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• Earth and Sky
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• The Space Place
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Anne Sexton, American poet (Live or Die), born, (1928)

• Volumes of Verse: Poetry Resources on the Internet
  You have probably heard the Web compared to a virtual library. In the case of poetry, that statement couldn't be more true. Poets from William Blake to Walt Whitman now have virtual homes in cyberspace.

Benjamin Banneker, Black American astronomer, mathematician, and surveyor (of Washington, DC) born (1731)

• Ten Activities Celebrate Achievements of African Americans!
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Elijah P. Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher and abolitionist, born (1802)

Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist (Fathers & Sons), born (1818)

Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer known for his pioneering work in studying animal locomotion, born (1830)

Asa Mahan, American educator and president of Oberlin College in Ohio (1835-1850) who broke new ground in establishing both female and interracial college enrollment, born (1799)

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Dylan Thomas, Welsh author (Under Milkwood) died in New York at 39 (1953)

The Berlin Wall, symbol of the Cold War that separated East and West Germany for 28 years, was opened to allow free travel between the two countries (1989)

Napoleon Bonaparte became ruler of France (1799)

National Child Safety Council founded (1955)

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King's College opened in New York (later became Columbia University) (1767)

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Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox (1865)

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• Valley of Shadow: Two Communities in American Civil War
  The Valley of the Shadow Project looks at two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the lens of the American Civil War. The project is an extensive archive of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, and maps, plus church, census and military records.

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union established (1935)

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UN General Assembly condemned apartheid in South Africa (1976)

Gary Kasparov, 22 year old Armenian became the youngest person ever to win the world chess champion title when he beat Anatoly Karpov (1985)