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Today in History

1520
Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan, having discovered a strait at the tip of South America, enters the Pacific.
1729
Natchez Indians massacre most of the 300 French settlers and soldiers at Fort Rosalie, Louisiana.
1861
The Confederate Congress admits Missouri to the Confederacy, although Missouri has not yet seceded from the Union.
1868
Mt. Etna in Sicily violently erupts.
1872
The Modoc War of 1872-73 begins in northern California when fighting breaks out between Modoc Chief Captain Jack and a cavalry detail led by Captain James Jackson.
1899
The British are victorious over the Boers at Modder River.
1919
Lady Astor is elected the first woman in Parliament.
1925
The forerunner of the Grand Ole Opry, called the WSM Barn Dance, opens in Nashville, Tennessee.
1935
The German Reich declares all men ages 18 to 45 as army reservists.
1937
Spanish leader Francisco Franco blockades the Spanish coast.
1939
The Soviet Union scraps its nonaggression pact with Finland.
1941
The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise departs from Pearl Harbor to deliver F4F Wildcat fighters to Wake Island. This mission saves the carrier from destruction when the Japanese attack.
1943
Sir Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet at Tehran, Iran, to hammer out war aims.
1944
The first shipment of supplies reach Antwerp by convoy, a new route for the Allies.
1948
Dr. Edwin Land’s first Polaroid cameras go on sale in Boston.
1950
In Korea, 200,000 Communist troops launch attack on UN forces.
1961
Ernie Davis becomes the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.
1963
Cape Canaveral is renamed Cape Kennedy.
1971
The Anglican cult ordains the first two women as priests.
1975
East Timor declares independence from Portugal.
1980
Operation Morvarid (Iran-Iraq War) takes place; Iranian Navy destroys over 70% of Iraqi Navy.
1984
Wingnut Robert Dole is elected Senate majority leader.
1989
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
1991
South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
2002
Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya.

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by Lucas High

Aviana Stevens wants to be a police officer when she grows up. Or maybe she’ll follow in her parents’ footsteps and join the military.
Or perhaps she’ll become an archaeologist.
She’s not quite sure yet.
But if the 8-year-old Bluffton, S.C., girl does end up studying fossils or ancient artifacts for a living, she will likely look back at last Sunday afternoon as a key milestone on her career path.

I got so excited that I started to cry.
M.C. Riley Elementary School student Aviana Stevens

Aviana found a fossilized shark tooth earlier this week at the bottom of the May River near the Alljoy Beach area.
But this wasn’t just any shark tooth — millions of years ago this tooth was inside the mouth of a Carcharodon megalodon, a long-extinct species that scientists regard as one of the largest and most ferocious marine predators to ever roam the ocean.
“I was feeling excited and nervous at the same time,” said Aviana, a third-grader at Bluffton’s M.C. Riley Elementary School, when she recalled pulling the tooth from the water. “I got so excited that I started to cry.”
Her father Jason Stevens, who said he “has loved hunting for shark teeth since (he) was a kid” and regularly accompanies Aviana on her adventures, was thrilled as well.
“She let out a squeal, and we were both kind of jumping up and down,” he said. “As soon as she pulled it out of the water, I knew it was a megalodon tooth.”
Stevens’ split-second assessment of the roughly 5-inch-long tooth appears to be an accurate one.
Shown photos of the fossil, Shawn Damon of Lowcountry Fossil Excursions, a company that guides amateur archaeologists on artifact hunts, immediately identified Aviana’s discovery as a megalodon tooth.
Adam Smith, a paleontologist and curator of the Campbell Geology Museum at Clemson University, came to the same conclusion.
Aviana’s find is “definitely a tooth from Carcharodon megalodon, the extinct giant white shark that was relatively common along the coasts” of South Carolina from about 23 million years ago until about 2 million years ago, Smith said in an email.
Aviana joked that she enjoys “learning about sharks and dinosaurs, but I wouldn't want to be face-to-face with a megalodon.”
If megalodons still cruised Lowcountry coastal waters today, staying out of their faces would be a pretty good idea.

Fossil evidence suggests that these giant marine predators preyed primarily on whales.
Clemson University paleontologist Adam Smith

“One of the most fascinating things about (the megalodon) was its immense size,” Smith said.
The giant sharks could grow to as long as 50 feet, which is “more than twice as large as the largest living white sharks,” Smith said.
“Fossil evidence suggests that these giant marine predators preyed primarily on whales,” he said.
The tooth Aviana found Sunday might be the largest she’s plucked from the May River, but it certainly isn’t the first.
“I’ve found a bunch of other shark teeth, but they’re usually tiny ones,” she said.
Scouring Bluffton for hidden treasures has become one of Aviana’s favorite hobbies.
“She got a metal detector from Santa last year,” Aviana’s mother Ronda Stevens said. “She’s been into treasure hunting for a while.”
Jason Stevens said, “We usually just find junk, but it’s a healthy hobby — it’s good to get outside.”
Ronda said her daughter has “a wide variety of interests.”
“She’s a cool kid,” Ronda said. “I’m just super proud of her.”
And Aviana is super proud of her recent discovery.
“When I found (the megalodon tooth), we got on my dad’s golf cart and we rode around showing it to everyone I know in the neighborhood,” she said. “Then I took it school (on Monday), and I can’t wait to show it to my grandma when she comes to visit me.”

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article117240803.html#storylink=cpy

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