Amador Valley High School is a public high school in Pleasanton, California, a city east of San Francisco. Amador Valley is one of four high schools in the Pleasanton Unified School District, which includes Foothill High School, Village High School, and Horizon High School. The school was founded as Amador Valley Joint Union High School, from which its first class graduated in 1923. The school has been named a California Distinguished School, a National School of Character, and a National Blue Ribbon School. As of 2009, Amador Valley offers its 2,500 students 23 varsity sports, 20 Advanced Placement courses, a program to study local aquatic wildlife, and vocational training. A monthly school publication, the Amadon, reports on athletics, academic and extracurricular issues, and news of the school and community. Student groups, including the Marching Band and Math Team, have toured out-of-state after achieving high rankings in Californian competitions.

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1816:

The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur- trading companies, engaged in a violent confrontation in present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Seven_Oaks

1939:

Former American baseball player Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, now commonly known in the United States as "Lou Gehrig's Disease". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Gehrig

1978:

Garfield, created by American cartoonist Jim Davis, made its debut, eventually becoming one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield

1987:

Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb at the Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, killing 21 and injuring 45. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Hipercor_bombing

2006:

The ceremonial "first stone" of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a facility established to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds from locations worldwide in an underground cavern in Spitsbergen, Norway, was laid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault

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