On this date in 1993 Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.

When reading aloud in the classroom, randomly call on students to keep them paying attention.

Can't boot from your Macintosh Hard Drive? Try booting up while holding down the command-option- shift-delete keys. With a system CD in the CD ROM drive this will cause the system to boot from the CD.

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