February 4, 2002 - Mee Moua, a Hmong woman in St. Paul, makes history when she's sworn in as the nation's first Hmong legislator. The Southeast Asian hill tribe people started arriving in the U.S. more than 20 years ago. Yet, for many Hmong, their true date of arrival in this country starts with this political moment.
January 5, 1990 - Carl Sagan, author and astrophysicist, speaking at a Washington D.C. conference co-sponsored by the AMA National Initiative for Science and Technology. Sagan’s address was titled "Education: Strategies for Change," and dealt with the dangers of a scientifically illiterate population.