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14					1 The first peace treaty between American colonists and an American Indian tribe was signed in 1621.	2 John Mauchly proposed ENIAC, the first modern computer, in 1943.	3 Howard Van Amringe, first President of the American Mathematical Society, was born in 1835.
15	4 Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968.	5 Pocahontas married John Rolfe in 1614.	6 The first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens in 1896.	7 Gabriela Mistral, first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in 1889.	8 Spanish artist Pablo Picasso died in 1973.	9 French poet Charles Baudelaire was born in 1821.	10 Journalist Joseph Pulitzer was born in 1847.
16	11 Andrew Wiles, the mathematician who proved Fermat's Last Theorem, was born in 1953.	12 Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in 1961.	13 Golf great Tiger Woods won the Masters Tournament in 1997.	14 The RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in 1912.	15 Walt Whitman wrote Oh Captain! My Captain! about the death of Abraham Lincoln, which occurred on this day in 1865.	16 The first Book-of-the-Month Club selection was distributed in 1926.	17 Mathematician and geometer Etienne Bobillier was born in 1798.
17	18 Longfellow's poem Paul Revere's Ride immortalized one of the riders who warned Boston colonists of the British invasion on this day in 1775.	19 The Warsaw ghetto uprising began in 1943.	20 Artist Joan Miro was born in 1893.	21 Economist John Maynard Keynes died in 1946.	22 The first national Earth Day was celebrated in 1970.	23 William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died on the same day in 1616.	24 William Butler Yeats' poem Easter 1916 remembers the Irish Easter rebellion which took place on this day in 1916.
18	25 Nobel Prize-winning mathematician Wolfgang Pauli was born in 1900.	26 John James Audubon was born in 1785 in Santo Domingo (present-day Haiti).	27 Samuel Morse was born in 1791.	28 The Allied occupation of Japan ended in 1952.	29 Jazz great Duke Ellington was born in 1899.	30 The Louisiana Purchase was made in 1803.

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