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Amador Valley High School is a public school in Pleasanton, California, a city east of San Francisco. Amador Valley is one of three high schools in the Pleasanton Unified School District, which includes Foothill High School and Village High School. The school was founded as Amador Valley Joint Union High School and opened in 1922. Major construction and renovations were undertaken after district voters approved bonds in 1922, 1965, 1997, and 2016. The school has been named a California Distinguished School and a National Blue Ribbon School. Amador Valley offers its students Advanced Placement courses, varsity sports, vocational training, and a variety of extracurricular activities. The school placed second in RoboSub, an international robotics competition, and first in We the People, a national civics competition, in 2022. The Amador Theater, one of Pleasanton's performing arts facilities, has been hosted at the high school since 1932. (Full article...)
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- Amid a government crisis, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Liz Truss (pictured) announces her resignation.
- Ulf Kristersson is elected Prime Minister of Sweden following a four-party agreement.
- Hurricane Julia leaves more than 80 people dead across South and Central America.
- After an explosion damages the Crimean Bridge, Russia attacks many Ukrainian cities with missiles.
On this day
- 1740 – Under the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction, Maria Theresa (pictured) ascended the Habsburg throne.
- 1969 – Experimental results from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center were published showing that protons were composed of smaller particles, the first evidence of quarks.
- 1977 – Three members of the American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd died when their chartered plane crashed in Gillsburg, Mississippi.
- 1982 – During a UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, a large number of attendees trying to leave the Central Lenin Stadium resulted in a stampede that caused 66 deaths.
- 2011 – First Libyan Civil War: Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed Libyan leader, was captured by rebel forces during the Battle of Sirte, and was killed shortly thereafter.
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Abraham Bradley Jr. (1767–1838) was an American lawyer, judge, and cartographer who served as Assistant Postmaster General for 30 years during the earliest history of the United States Post Office Department. He was responsible for moving the federal government's post office from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the new capital at Washington, D.C., and briefly hosted the national post office in his own home. The continuity brought by Bradley's long employment during the tenures of five United States postmasters general helped establish the budding postal service as a reliable provider; he also drew detailed and innovative postal route maps that built the office's efficiency. He drew one of the first comprehensive maps of the United States in 1796; it "represented the first clear cartographic break in European-dominated map making and introduced a new, more distinctly American style of cartography to the United States". In 1804, Bradley drew this map of American post roads and post offices, spanning the Orleans Territory (now Louisiana) in the southwest to Maine in the northeast. The hand-colored map measures 98 by 132 centimeters (39 in × 52 in). Map credit: Abraham Bradley Jr.
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