In 1804, the Louisiana Purchase was divided into the Territory of Orleans and the District of Louisiana.
In 1982, groundbreaking ceremonies took place in Washington D.C., for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, two 200-foot black granite walls bearing the names of Americans killed or missing in the war.
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Conductor Pierre Boulez (1925)
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conner (1930)
Actor-director Leonard Nimoy (1931)
Actor Alan Arkin (1934)
Actor Jame Caan (1940)
Author Erica Jong (1942)
Singer Diana Ross (1944)
Rock singer Steve Tyler (1948)
Singer Teddy Pendergrass (1950)
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"The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that we are to be here and now by the power of the resurrection; not so much that we are to live forever as that we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever."
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Phillips Brooks, American religious leader (1835-1893)