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Eugenie Clark
Born May 4, 1922 in New York City -
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The US Supreme Court rules that organized baseball is a sport and not a business. -
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Worst tornado in U.S. history hit Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana causing 689 deaths. -
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In 1941, Pearl Harbor was bombed. -
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The Pentagon is completed and becomes the largest office building in the world. -
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She went to the Pacific Ocean as a research assistant in 1947. -
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Finished school with her Ph.D. in Zoology from New York University in 1950. -
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Wrote a book called Lady with a Spear which was published in 1953. -
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Became a director of a marine biology laboratory in Florida in 1954. -
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The laboratory moved to Siesta Key in Sarasota, Florida in 1960. -
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Started teaching marine biology at the University of Maryland in 1967. -
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Richard M. Nixon announces he will resign the next day, the first President to do so. -
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Space shuttle Challenger explodes after launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla., killing all seven aboard -
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Retired from her job in 1992. -
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Mad cow disease makes an appearance in Europe. -
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Florida continuously gets hit with hurricanes. -
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California's Supreme Court rules that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. -
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Osama Bin Laden is pronounced dead in 2011. -
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Her last research project about mysterious deepwater triggerfish was published in 2015. -
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Eugenie Clark was pronounced dead on February 25, 2015 from complications from lung cancer.