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1 2 New Year's Day Science Fiction Day Paul Revere's Birthday (1735) Georgia Ratification Day (1788) Betsy Ross's Birthday (1752) Moon First Photographed (1839) Ellis Island Opened for Immigration (1892) Euro Debuted (2002) 3 4 5

J.R.R. Tolkien's Birthday (1892)

Trivia Day

National Bird Day X-Ray Discovered

(1896)

Author Jakob Alaska Named 49th Grimm's Birthday (1785) State (1959) Inventor Louis Braille's Birthday
(1809)

Utah Admission Day

(1896)

Nancy Pelosi Elected First Female Speaker of the House (2007) St. Joan of Arc's Birthday (1412) Telegraph First Demonstrated (1838) New Mexico Ratified
(1912)

Jupiter's Moons Discovered (1610) Sir Sandford Fleming's Birthday

(1827)

Last Battle of War of 1812 (1815) Elvis Presley's Birthday (1935)

Static Electricity Day

Oil Discovered in Texas (1901)

10

U.S. Hydrogen Bomb Revealed (1953) Clean Off Your Desk Day

UN General Connecticut Ratification Day (1788) Assembly First Convened (1946) Pres. Richard Nixon's Birthday (1913)

11 12 First Diabetic John Hancock's Patient Treated with Birthday (1737) Insulin (1922) First Public Museum Amelia Earhart Flew Opened in SC (1773) Solo Across Pacific (1935) First Woman Elected to Senate
(1932)

Author James Joyce Died (1941)

13

14

Hat Day

Revolutionary War Ended (1784) World Religion Day World's First Organized Basketball Game
(1892)

Operation Desert Storm Martin Luther King's Announced (1991) Birthday (1929) 500 Russians Killed on "Bloody Sunday" (1905)

15

16

Ben Franklin's Birthday (1706)

17

A.A. Milne's Birthday (1882)

18

Popcorn Day

19

First Baby Born in White House (1806)

Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday (1809)

20

Martin Luther King Day First Atomic Submarine Launched (1954)

21

22

Handwriting Day

Abortion Legalized in Roe v. Wade (1973)

Reagan Became Oldest President

(1981)

Vietnam Draft Evaders Pardoned

(1977)

First Transcontinental Elizabeth Blackwell California Gold Rush Phone Call (1915) Becomes First Began (1848) First Winter Female Physician in Author Edith Olympics (1924) U.S. (1849) Wharton's Birthday
(1862)

23

Compliment Day

24

25

Australia Day

26

Michigan Admission Day (1837)

Jan. 21-25

No Name-Calling MLK Day Week Celebrated as Federal Holiday (1986)

27 28 29 Composer Artist Jackson Puzzle Day Wolfgang Amadeus Pollock's Birthday (1912) Poe's "The Raven" Mozart's Birthday (1756) Published (1845) Louis Brandeis Writer Lewis Appointed First Kansas Admission Carroll's Birthday Jewish Supreme Day (1861) (1832) Court Justice (1916)
Vietnam War Peace Challenger Shuttle Accords Signed (1973) Exploded (1986)
Eye Care Month Hot Tea Month

Adolf Hitler Named German Chancellor (1933)

30

31 Thirteenth Amendment Abolished Slavery

(1865)

"Blue Suede Shoes" Jackie Robinson's Recorded (1956) Birthday (1919)

Oatmeal Month Thank-You Month

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National Freedom 1 Groundhog Day2 Day World Wetlands Day Robinson Crusoe Mexican-American Day War Ended (1848) Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster (2003) Super Bowl Sunday 15th Amendment Signed (1868)

World Cancer Day

First U.S. Presidential Election Hank Aaron's (1789) Birthday (1934) Confederacy Formed (1861) Rosa Parks's Birthday (1913) School Counseling Week
Feb. 4-8

National Weatherperson's Day

Girls & Women in Sports Day Babe Ruth's Birthday (1895) Queen Elizabeth II Crowned (1952)

Love Your Robot Day Charles Dickens's Birthday (1812) Tattooing Machine Introduced (1875)

Jules Verne's Birthday (1828) Russo-Japanese War Began (1904) NASDAQ Debuted
(1971)

Toothache Day

National Weather Service Established

(1870)

Hershey's Chocolate Founded

(1894)

Chinese New Year Umbrella Day

10

Steamboat Patented (1809) Thomas Edison's Birthday (1847)

11

Mardi Gras Red Hand Day Charles Darwin's Birthday (1809)

12

Treaty of Paris Signed Ending French and Indian War (1763)

First Weekly Weather Report (1878) Pres. Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (1809) Nelson Mandela Freed (1990) NAACP Founded
(1909)

13 14 First Public Valentine's Day School Founded in Read to Your Child U.S. (1635) Day Strauss's Blue Danube Premiered Oregon Admission Day (1859) (1867)
Arizona Admission Day (1912)

Susan B. Anthony Day Scientist Galileo Galilei's Birthday

(1564)

15

16 King Tutankhamen's Tomb Opened (1923)

Nylon Patented (1937)

Fidel Castro Muhammad Ali Lost Became Leader of Boxing Title (1978) Cuba (1959)

National PTA Founders Day

17

Presidents' Day

18

Last Classic VW Beetle Assembled

(1972)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Published (1885) Pluto Discovered

(1930)

Nicolaus Copernicus's Birthday (1473) Phonograph Patented (1878) FDR Authorized Japanese Internment (1942)

19

20 21 Metropolitan International World Thinking Museum of Art Mother Language Day Opened in NYC (1872) Day Pres. George "Batman & Robin" Peace Symbol Washington's Comic Debuted (1944) Designed (1958) Birthday (1732)
Malcolm X Assassinated (1965)

22

23 Santa Anna Began Siege of the Alamo (1836)

The Tootsie Roll Debuted (1896)

Spain Ceded Florida to the U.S. (1819) Woolworth Opened First "Five Cent Store" (1879)

U.S. Marines Went Ashore at Iwo Jima

(1945)

25 26 First AfricanTell a Fairy Tale American Elected to Day (1786) U.S. Senate (1870) Author Victor Hugo's First Uranus "Flyby" Glacier Bay (Alaska) Birthday (1802) by Voyager 2 (1986) Proclaimed a National Monument Grand Canyon (1925) National Park Established (1919)
Wilhelm Carl Grimm's Birthday Eating Disorders Awareness Week
American Heart Month Bird Feeding Month Black History Month Children's Dental Health Month
Feb. 2 -Mar.

24

Polar Bear Day

27

DNA Discovered
(1953)

28

15th Recorded Passage of Halley's Computer Core Memory Patented Comet (837) (1956) Poet H.W. Longfellow's Birthday (1807)

Library Lovers' Month National Cherry Month National Heart Month

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Self-Injury Awareness Day First Census Authorized (1790)

1 Read Across America Day

Nebraska Admission Day (1867) Dr. Seuss's Birthday Peace Corps Established (1961) Florida Admission 3 U.S. Constitution 4 Stop the Clocks Day (1845) Went into Effect (1789) Day Inventor Alexander Graham Bell's Birthday (1847) "Star-Spangled Banner" Became National Anthem
(1931) (1904)

Texas Declared Independence from Mexico (1836)

5 World Read Aloud 6 World Kidney Day 7 Day Hitler Broke Treaty Vermont Admission Boston Massacre Artist Michelangelo's of Versailles (1936) (1770) Day (1791) Birthday (1475) Civil Rights Protest Mar. 4-8 Stapler Invented (1868) "Cyclops" Dubbed "Bloody National School Disappeared in Sunday" (1965) Breakfast Week Bermuda Triangle
World Orphan Week
Mar. 4-10
(1918)

International 8 Amistad Slaves Women's Day Freed (1841) Hubble Photo Shows Millions of Galaxies (1934) U.S. Combat Troops Arrived in Vietnam
(1965)

Jumbo Arrived in U.S. (1882) Barbie Debuted (1959)

10 Johnny 11 Writer Jack 12 Daylight Kerouac's Birthday Saving Time Appleseed Day (1922) Begins Terrorist Bombing in Truman Doctrine Harriet Tubman Day Madrid Killed 200 (2004) Enacted (1947) Maha Shivratri Mar. 11-17 Janet Reno Made First Phone Call (1876) Brain Awareness U.S. Attorney Week General (1993) Mar. 10-16 Teen Tech Week 19 St. Patrick's 17 Britain Repealed 18 Academy Day the Stamp Act (1766) Awards First Televised (1953) Mar. 17-23 First Space Walk Poison Prevention (1965) Iraq War Began (2003) Week

13 Eli Whitney 14 Julius Caesar 15 Uranus Discovered (1781) Patented Cotton Gin Murdered"Ides of (1793) March" (44 BC) Pres. Andrew Physicist Albert Johnson's Maine Admission Day (1820) Impeachment Trial Einstein's Birthday (1879) Began (1868) First Blood Bank Teaching Evolution Opened (1937) Prohibited in Tenn. Schools (1925)
Spring Begins 20 International Day 21 for Elimination of Agriculture Day Racial Uncle Tom's Cabin Discrimination Published (1852) World Poetry Day Johann Bach's Birthday (1685) World Water Day
(1997)

16 Pres. James Madison's Birthday

(1751)

Barnum & Bailey Circus Debuted (1919)

22 World 23 Meteorological Day

Ponce de Leon Discovered & Named Florida (1513) Lewis & Clark Began Expedition
(1806)

Hale-Bopp Comet Approached Earth

25 Harry Houdini's 24 Passover Birthday (1874) Begins at Sundown Exxon Valdez Oil Fire at Triangle Spill (1989) Shirtwaist Co. Killed 145 (1911)
North America's First Test Tube Twins Born (1982) Easter Eiffel Tower Officially Opened
(1889)

Make Your Own 26 World Theatre Holiday Day Day Playwright Tennessee Williams's Birthday
(1911)

27 First Washing 28 Coca-Cola Machine Patented Invented (1886)

(1930)

29 Artist Vincent 30 Van Gogh's Birthday

(1853)

Spanish Civil War Ended (1939)

Rosenbergs Found Guilty of Treason

(1951)

Treaty to Purchase Alaska Submitted

(1867)

Sandra Day O'Connor's Birthday

(1930)

Last U.S. Troops Left South Vietnam

(1973)

31

Major League Baseball Strike Ended (1995)

Deaf History Month (3/13-4/15) Irish-American Heritage Month Music in Our Schools Month National Craft Month National Nutrition Month Save Your Vision Month Women's History Month Youth Art Month

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1 2 April Fool's Day International Children's Book Day Cigarette Ads Banned from Radio World Autism & TV (1970) Awareness Day
Apple Computer Founded (1976) Philadelphia Mint Authorized (1792) Hans Christian Andersen's Birthday
(1805)

3 4 5 First Pony Pres. William H. Pocahontas Tartan Day Express Service (1860) Harrison Died (1841) Married John Rolfe (1614) First Modern Scientist Jane NATO Created (1949) Olympics (1896) Booker T. Goodall's Birthday (1934) Washington's Martin Luther King North Pole First Birthday (1856) Jr. Assassinated Reached (1909)
(1968)

Microsoft Founded
(1975)

Helen Keller First Learned Sign Language (1887)

U.S. Entered WWI

(1917)

World Health Day 5,000 Suffragists Marched on Washington (1913) Billie Holiday's Birthday (1915)

8 Name Yourself 9 Holocaust Day Remembrance Day Civil War Ended (1865) 17th Amendment First Full-Color Film Ratified (1913) Shown (1914)

10 Einstein 11 Civil War Began 12 Encourage a Young Writer Day Revealed Theory of (1861) Relativity (1905) First Man in Space Joseph Pulitzer's (1961) 1968 Civil Rights Birthday (1847) Act Signed (1968)

13 Thomas Jefferson's Birthday

(1743)

Oxygen Tank Burst on Apollo 13 (1970)

Webster's First 14 Jackie Robinson 15 Day Dictionary Copyrighted (1828) Leonardo da Vinci's Abraham Lincoln Birthday (1452) Assassinated (1865) Ray Kroc Acquired The Titanic Hit McDonald's (1955) Iceberg (1912) Library Week City of Rome Founded (753 BC) Volunteer Week
Apr. 21-27 Apr. 14-20

Wilbur Wright's Birthday (1867) Wayne Gretzky Retired (1999)

16 Daffy Duck Debuted (1937)

Ford Mustang Debuted (1964)

17 International Jugglers Day

18 American 19 Astronomy Day 20 Revolution Began (1775) First Game Played Paul Revere Day at Fenway Park (1912) Okla. City Bombing Killed 168 (1995) Columbine High School Shooting Killed 15 (1999)

21 Earth Day
Jelly Bean Day First Earth Day Observed (1970)

22 World Book & Copyright Day

Shakespeare's Birthday (1564)

23 Library of 24 Take Our 25 John Wilkes 26 Congress Daughters & Sons Booth Killed (1865) Established (1800) to Work Day Studio 54 Disco Opened (1977) Mailbox Inventor First Use of Name Born (1815) "America" (1507) Chernobyl Nuclear Spain Declared War First License Plates Reactor Disaster (1986) on U.S. (1898) Required (1901)
Ella Fitzgerald's Birthday (1917)

27 Lag BaOmer (Jewish Festival) Begins at Sundown

Tell a Story Day York Captured by U.S. (1813) Activist Coretta Scott King's Birthday
(1927)

(1758)

28 International Pres. James Monroe's Birthday Dance Day

29 International Jazz Day

30

Zipper Patented (1842) Louisiana Admission Day (1812) Maryland Admission Prince William Day (1788) Married Kate Casey Jones Died (1900) Middleton (2011) Screen-Free Week
Apr. 29-May.5

Vietnam War Ended

(1975)

Alcohol & Drug Awareness Month Animal Cruelty Prevention Month Autism Awareness Month Deaf History Month (3/13-4/15) Keep America Beautiful Month Mathematics Education Month

National Garden Month National Poetry Month School Library Media Month World Habitat Awareness Month Youth Sports Safety Month

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1 Soviet Union 2 National 3 Announced Fall of Scrapbooking Day Empire State Berlin (1945) Building Opened World Press (1931) Nelson Mandela Freedom Day Elected President of South Africa (1994)
May Day Cinco de Mayo 5 International No Diet Day (Mexico) John Scopes Arrested Psychoanalysist for Teaching Sigmund Freud's Darwinism (1926) Birthday (1856) First American in Space (1961) National Music Week Mother's Day
May 5-12
(1937)

International Firefighters Day Freedom Riders Left D.C. for New Orleans (1961)

6 National Teacher 7 School Nurse Day Day

World Asthma Day World Red Cross Day Pres. Harry S. Truman's Birthday
(1884)

8 Ascension Day (Christian Feast Day)

John Brown's Birthday (1800)

9 Giant Squid Attack (1847)

10 World Fair Trade Day

11

Composer Peter Tchaikovsky's Hindenburg Disaster Birthday (1840) Teacher Appreciation Week
May 6-10

Lusitania Sunk (1915)

VE Day (1945)

First Minnesota Transcontinental Admission Day (1858) Railway Completed (1869) Sports Writer Mike Lupica's Birthday Beatles Signed First (1952) Recording Contract Nelson Mandela Became South (1962) Africa's President
(1994)

12 U.S. Declared 13 Shavuot (Jewish 14 War on Mexico (1846) Festival) Begins at Kite Day Sundown May 13-19 Florence Nightingale's Children's Book Lewis and Clark Birthday (1820) Week Expedition Began (1803) Pres. Jimmy Carter Visited Cuba (2002) First Olympic Games Held in U.S. May 12-18 (1904) Police Week First U.S. Space Transportation Week Station Launched
(1973)

International Day 15 Biographers of Families Day U.S. Dept. of First U.S. Nickel Agriculture Created Minted (1866)
(1862)

16 International Day Against Homophobia

New York Stock Exchange Established (1792)

17 Armed Forces Day

International Museum Day

18

First Air Mail Route Established in U.S.

(1918)

Supreme Court Ruled on Brown v. Board of Education

(1954)

Pope John Paul II's Birthday (1920) Mount St. Helens Erupted (1980)

19 Dolley 20 American Red 21 Buy a Musical 22 Botanist Carolus 23 First Telegraph 24 Pentecost/Whitsunday Madison's Birthday Cross Established Instrument Day Linnaeus's Birthday Message (1768) (1881) (1707) Transmitted (1844) New England International Day for Charles Lindbergh Amelia Earhart Flew Biological Diversity South Carolina Confederation Brooklyn Bridge Began Transatlantic Solo Across the Admission Day (1788) Opened (1883) Formed (1643) Flight (1932) Atlantic (1932) Pres. Nixon Visited Wright Brothers Israeli Troops Pulled the Soviet Union Patented the Aircraft Out of Lebanon (2000) First Hydrogen (1972) (1906) Bomb Dropped by Air (1956) May 2 -2 Backyard Games Week 28 Dorothea Lange's 26 Memorial Day 27 Athlete Jim Birthday (1895) Thorpe's Birthday First Recorded (1888) Sally Ride's Birthday Witch Execution (1647) (1951) Sierra Club Founded (1892) St. Petersburg Founded (1703) Linda Finch Completed Earhart's Golden Gate Bridge Flight Around the Opened (1937) World (1997)
Asian-Pacific-American Heritage Month Asthma & Allergy Awareness Month Better Hearing and Speech Month Clean Air Month Get Caught Reading Month

25 International Missing Children's Day

Fork Debuted in U.S. (1630) Babe Ruth Hit 714th Home Run (1935) Jesse Owens Broke Three World Records (1935)

29 Indianapolis 500 30 World No Rhode Island Admission Day (1790) Debuted (1911) Tobacco Day
Wisconsin Lincoln Memorial Admission Day (1848) Dedicated (1927) Hillary and Tenzing Reached Mt. Everest Summit (1953)

31

First U.S. Copyright Law Enacted (1790) South Africa Became Independent (1961)

Mental Health Month National Bike Month Physical Fitness & Sports Month Skin Cancer Awareness Month Transportation Month

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Stand for Children 1 Day Kentucky Admission Day (1792) Tennessee Admission Day (1796) CNN Debuted (1980) Radio Patented
(1896)

2 First U.S. Space Walk (1965)

American Indians Granted U.S. Citizenship (1924) USDA Introduces MyPlate Nutrition Guidelines (2011)

3 First Supermarket 4 U.N. World 5 First Drive-In 6 Homer Plessy 7 World Oceans Cart Introduced (1937) Environment Day Movie Theater (1933) Broke Segregation Day Laws (1892) Tiananmen Square Robert F. Kennedy D-Day (1944) Demonstrations (1989) VCR Introduced (1975) Assassinated (1968)
First AIDS Report Published (1981)

9 Children's Day Hong Kong Leased to UK for 99 Years Alcoholics (1898) Anonymous Founded (1935)
Ballpoint Pen Patented (1943) Father's Day

10 Great Barrier 11 Diary Day 12 Reef Discovered (1770) Pres. George H. W. Bush's Birthday (1924) Jacques Cousteau's Birthday (1910) Anne Frank's Birthday (1929) 17 War of 1812 Began (1812)

Poet William Butler Yeats's Birthday (1865)

13 Flag Day
Official U.S. Flag Adopted (1777) First Commercial Computer Introduced (1951)

14 Arkansas 15 Admission Day (1836)

Oregon Boundary Treaty Signed (1846)

Presidents of North & South Korea Met

(2000)

Valentina Tereshkova First Woman in Space

(1963)

16 M.C. Escher's Birthday (1898)

18 First Official 19 World Refugee Game of Baseball Day

(1846)

20 Summer Begins

Republic of Iceland Established (1944)

Napoleon Defeated at Battle of Waterloo Juneteenth (1815) (Liberation of Slaves) (1865) Sally Ride First American Woman in Space (1983)

West Virginia Admission Day (1863)

New Hampshire Admission Day (1788) Cyrus McCormick Patented Mechanical Reaper
(1834)

21 Explorer George 22 Vancouver's Birthday (1757)

Pledge of Allegiance Recognized by Congress (1942)

WNBA Debuted (1997)

24 General Custer 25 Bicycle Patented 26 First Typewriter 23 Term "Flying (1819) Patented (1868) Saucers" First Used Died at Little (1947) Bighorn (1876) Inventor of the Athlete Wilma Thermometer Born Rudolph's Birthday Author George (1824) (1940) Orwell's Birthday (1903) First Map of Human Supreme Court Justice Clarence Eric Carle's Birthday Genome Completed (2000) (1929) Thomas's Birthday
(1948)

28 Shakespeare's 29 Theater Destroyed by Fire (1613) First Newbery Medal World War I Began (1914) Awarded (1922) Remote Control Introduced (1964)
Helen Keller's Birthday (1880)

27 Paul Bunyan Day

First Color TV Broadcast (1951)

Meteor Day 26th Amendment Changed Voting Age (1971)

30

Child Vision Awareness Month Dairy Month Fireworks Safety Month National Rivers Month

National Rose Month Safety Month Smile Month

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Battle of Gettysburg (1863) Canada Day (1867) First U.S. Zoo Opened (1874) ZIP Codes Introduced (1963)

1 Pres. James 2 Compliment Your 3 Independence 4 P. T. Barnum's Garfield Shot (1881) Mirror Day Day (1776) Birthday (1810)
Amelia Earhart Disappeared (1937) Civil Rights Act of 1964 (1964) Stay Out of the Sun Thoreau Moved to Walden Pond (1845) Day Idaho Admission Day (1890) U.S. Veterans Administration Created (1930) Don't Step on a 10 World Bee Day Population Day Statue of Liberty Presented (1884) Larry Doby Signed with Cleveland Indians (1946)

5 Republican Party 6 Formed (1854)

First Cloned Sheep (Dolly) Born (1996)

7 First Public 8 Ramadan Begins 9 Reading of Sugar Cookie Day Declaration of Hawaii Annexed by Independence (1776) U.S. (1898) Vermont Abolished Terrorist Bombing in Slavery (1777) London Killed 52
Pinocchio First Printed (1883)
(2005)

11 Etch-a-Sketch Introduced (1960)

12 First World Cup 13 Soccer Tournament

(1930)

Wyoming Admission Pres. John Quincy Day (1890) Adams's Birthday

(1767)

Babe Ruth Debuted in Major League Baseball (1914) Author Patricia Polacco's Birthday
(1944)

First Female VicePresidential Candidate Announced (1984)

25-hour Blackout in New York City (1977)

14 Howard Hughes 15 Set New Speed Record (1938) Nazis Became Sole Political Party in First International Germany (1933) Manned Spaceflight
Bastille Day in France (1789) $100 Bill Became Largest U.S. Currency (1969) National Ice Cream Day
(1975)

16 Potsdam 17 District of Columbia Conference (1945) Established (1790) Disneyland Opened Last Russian Czar (1955) Executed (1918)
First Parking Meters
(1935)

18 First Women's 19 First Special 20 Rights Convention Olympics (1968) Held (1848) Gymnast Nadia First Moon Landing (1969) Comaneci Scored First East to West First Perfect 10 (1976) Rowing of the Atlantic (1969)
Mein Kampf Published (1925)

21 Pied Piper 22 Pneumatic Tires 23 24 Arrived in Hamelin Invented (1888) Astronauts Safely (1264) Return to Earth (1969) Hale-Bopp Comet Ernest Hemingway's Discovered (1995) Birthday (1899)
Scopes Found Guilty in "Monkey Trial" (1925) Janet Reno's Birthday (1938) Parents' Day Beatrix Potter's Birthday (1866) 14th Amendment Ratified (1868)

Puerto Rico 25 New York 26 Became U.S. Admission Day (1788) Commonwealth (1952) Liberia Became Africa's First First Test-Tube Baby Born (1978) Republic (1847) FBI Created (1908)

Korean War 27 Veterans' Armistice Day Bugs Bunny Debuted (1940) Bombing at Olympic Games in Atlanta
(1996)

28 Sharon Creech's 29 Emily Bront's Birthday (1945) Birthday (1818)

NASA Established
(1958)

30 Columbus 31 Arrived in Trinidad

(1498)

Henry Ford's Birthday (1863)

Prince Charles In God We Trust Married Lady Diana Made U.S. Motto Spencer (1981) (1956)

J.K. Rowling's Birthday (1965)

Blueberries Month Hot Dog Month

Read an Almanac Month Recreation and Parks Month

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First U.S. Census: 1 Ice Cream Population Sandwich Day 3,929,214 (1790) Declaration of Colorado Admission Independence Day (1876) Signed (1776) Photo Flashbulb Invented (1930) Lincoln Penny Issued (1909)

2 National Kids Day 3

Columbus Set Sail
(1492)

William Faulkner Stamp Issued (1987)

4 Electric Traffic 5 Bacteriologist 6 Lights First Installed Alexander Fleming's (1914) Musician Louis Birthday (1881) Armstrong's Astronaut Neil Atomic Bomb Birthday (1901) Armstrong's Birthday Dropped on (1930) Nazis Arrested Anne Hiroshima (1945) Frank & Family (1944)
Friendship Day President Barack Obama's Birthday
(1961)

8 International Art 9 First Pictures of 7 Great Train Earth Taken from Robbery Thieves Appreciation Day Space (1959) Stole $6M (1963) Psychologist Jean Lynne Cox Swam First Canadian Piaget's Birthday (1896) Bering Strait (1987) Turtle Derby (1972)
Nixon Announced Resignation (1974) Jesse Owens Won Four Olympic Gold Medals (1936)

10 Missouri Admission Day (1821)

Smithsonian Institution Opened
(1846)

Japanese Internment Survivors Awarded $20K (1988)

11 International Martian Moon Phobos Discovered Youth Day

(1677)

12 International 13 Japan Agreed to 14 Julia Child's Left-Hander's Day Surrender in WWII Birthday (1912)
(1945)

Tyrannosaurus Sue Activist Lucy Stone's First Inmates Arrived Discovered (1990) Largest Blackout in Birthday (1818) at Alcatraz (1934) U.S. History (2003) First Two-Way Satellite Conversation (1948)

Panama Canal Opened (1914)

15 Bathysphere 16 Davy Crockett's 17 Reached Record Birthday (1786) Depth (1934) Klondike Gold Rush Began (1896)

Woodstock Music & Art Fair Opened (1969) New Solar System Discovered (2001) International Day 23 Mount Vesuvius 24 for Remembrance of Erupted (79) Slave Trade & Its Mexico Gained Abolition Independence from Spain (1821) Sacco & Vanzetti Executed Amid First Swimmer Protest (1927) Crossed the English Channel (1875)

19 Pres. Benjamin 20 First American 18 Aviation Day Child of English Harrison's Birthday Adolf Hitler Elected (1833) Parents Born (1587) Fuhrer (1934) Explorer Meriwether Lewis's Birthday (1774)
King Kong Premiered (1933)

Pueblo Indians 21 Tooth Fairy Day 22 Took Possession of Writer Annie Santa Fe, NM (1680) Proulx's Birthday (1935) Lincoln-Douglas Debates Began (1858) Mona Lisa Stolen
(1911)

Hawaii Statehood Day (1959)

25 Women's New Orleans Founded by French Equality Day

(1718)

Athlete Althea Gibson's Birthday

(1927)

26 Pres. Lyndon B. 27 First Radio 28 Musician Charlie 29 Johnson's Birthday Commercial Parker's Birthday (1908) (1920) Broadcasted (1922) MLK Gave "I Have a Hurricane Katrina Dream" Speech (1963) Devastated Gulf Coast (2005)

30 International Cleopatra Committed Suicide Blog Day

(30 BC)

31

Author Mary Shelley's Birthday

(1797)

Trail Mix Day Princess Diana Died

(1997)

Earth First Photographed from the Moon (1966)

Thurgood Marshall Confirmed as First Black Supreme Court Justice (1967)

Back to School Month Family Fun Month Get Ready for Kindergarten Month

Happiness Happens Month Inventor's Month Kids' Vision and Learning Month

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2 Treaty of Paris 3 4 Germany Invaded 1 Labor Day Rosh Hashanah Poland, Starting Ended American Begins at Great Fire of London Revolution (1783) WWII (1939) Sundown (1666) Los Angeles Titanic Wreckage Wizard of Oz Pres. Theodore Founded (1781) Located (1985) Published (1900) Roosevelt: "Speak Softly & Carry a Big First Pictures Taken Little Rock 9 Stick" (1901) Prevented from of Mars's Surface (1976) Integrating (1957) Victory over Japan (V-J) Day (1945) 9 Grandparents 8 Name "United States of America" Day Adopted (1776) International Literacy Day California Admission Day (1850) Pres. Ford Pardoned Pres. Nixon (1974)
Suicide Prevention Week Agatha Christie's 15 International Day 16 Birthday (1890) for Preservation of Ozone Layer Alexander Fleming Discovered Stepfamily Day Penicillin (1928) Mexican Nuremberg Law Independence Day Enacted in Germany (1810)
(1935)

Be Late for Something Day Tragedy at Munich Summer Olympics

(1972)

5 Pres. William 6 Babe Ruth Hit 7 McKinley Shot (1901) First Home Run (1915)
Yellow Star of David Singer Buddy Holly's Required for All Birthday (1936) German Jews (1941)

Mother Teresa Died Star Trek Debuted (1997) on TV (1966)

Rickshaw Invented (1869)

10 Patriot Day

20 Black Students Entered Alabama Public School (1963)

11 Henry Hudson 12 Began Exploration Writer O. Henry's of Hudson River (1609) Birthday (1862) First AfricanTragic Terrorist American Woman in Attack on Three Space (1992) American Cities (2001)

Yom Kippur Begins at Sundown International Chocolate Day Milton Hershey's Birthday (1857) Roald Dahl's Birthday (1916)

13 Star-Spangled 14 Banner Composed

(1814)

Psychologist Ivan Pavlov's Birthday

(1849)

Sep. 8-14

First Peacetime Draft Established Pre-WWII (1940)

U.S. Constitution 17 Play-Doh Day 18 Mickey Mouse Completed & Signed Debuted (1928) (1787) Fugitive Slave Act Passed (1850) 23,000 Killed at Battle of Antietam First Issue of The (1862) New York Times Sep. 17-23 Published (1851) Constitution Week

19 Author Upton 20 International Day 21 Sinclair's Birthday of Peace

(1878)

Pres. Chester A. Arthur Inaugurated

(1881)

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" Editorial Published

(1897)

The Hobbit Was Published (1937) Author Stephen King's Birthday (1947)

22 23 Author F. Scott 24 Bill of Rights 25 Autumn Begins Neptune Discovered (1846) Fitzgerald's Birthday Created (1789) Elephant (1896) Appreciation Day Sandra Day O'Connor Became Emancipation First Female Proclamation Issued Supreme Court (1862) Justice (1981) Iran-Iraq War Began
(1980)

Johnny Appleseed's Birthday (1774)

26 Ancestor 27 Tomatoes First 28 Appreciation Day Proven Safe to Eat

Native American Day Samuel Adams's Birthday (1722) First Skyscraper Opened in NYC (1932)
(1820)

First Televised Presidential Debate

(1960)

Black Sox Scandal Indictments Given

(1920)

29 International 30 Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur Died Translation Day

(1895)

Nuremberg Trials Found 22 Guilty (1946)

Be Kind to Editors & Writers Month Better Breakfast Month Childhood Obesity Awareness Month Classical Music Month Hunger Action Month

Kids' Good Manners Month Library Card Sign-Up Month National Chicken Month National Piano Month National Sickle Cell Month

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1 Mohandas 2 Frank Robinson 3 Sputnik I 4 World Teacher's Spain Ceded Louisiana to France Gandhi's Birthday Became First Black Launched into Orbit Day (1800) (1869) (1957) Baseball Manager
Henry Ford Introduced the Model T (1908) Pres. Jimmy Carter's Birthday (1924)
(1974) Oct. 4-10 Peanuts Comic Strip World Space Week Debuted (1950) East and West Germany United (1990)

8 Leif Erikson Day 9 U.S. Naval 10 Thomas Edison 6 Child Health Day 7 Great Fire of Chicago Started (1871) Academy Opened in Showed First Motion Washington Carbon Paper MD (1845) Picture (1889) Monument Opened Patented (1806) Oct. 6-12 (1888) King Tut's Treasures Fire Prevention Niels Bohr's Discovered (1924) John Lennon's Week Birthday (1885) Birthday (1940) Pac-Man Arcade Metric Week Game Released (1979) 13 Columbus Day14 White Cane 15 Dictionary Day 16 Safety Day Battle of Hastings World Food Day Cornerstone of Fought (1066) U.S. Dept. of White House Laid (1792) Cuban Missile Crisis Transportation Martin Luther King Began (1962) Created (1966) Oct. 13-19 Jr. Awarded Nobel Earth Science Week Peace Prize (1964) Nelson Mandela Awarded Nobel Teen Read Week Peace Prize (1993) 21 National Nut Day 22 Senate Ratified 20 Apple Day Louisiana Purchase (1803) Alfred Nobel's First Parachute Birthday (1833) Jump from Balloon Oct. 20-26 (1797) Chemistry Week Thomas Edison Invented Light bulb
(1879)

12 International Day 11 Columbus of the Girl Landed in Bahamas

Eleanor Roosevelt's USS Cole Attacked Birthday (1884) (2000) First Staffed Apollo Mission Launched
(1968) (1492)

17 Alaska 18 Last Major Battle 19 Purchased from of American Russia (1867) Revolution Ended (1781) International Day for Black Olympians Ending Poverty Largest Mass of Suspended for Gold Discovered Mae Jemison's Protest (1968) (1872) Birthday (1956)
Black Poetry Day Mother Teresa Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1979) Make a Difference Day

School Bus Safety Week

Oct. 21-25

23 United Nations 24 Picasso's 25 Women's Suffrage March, Day Birthday (1881) NYC (1915) Microwave Oven First Debuted (1955) Soccer Star Pel's Transcontinental Birthday (1940) Telegraph Line John Steinbeck Completed (1861) Apple's iPod Awarded Nobel Unveiled (2006) Prize in Literature
(1962)

26

First Continental Congress Adjourned

(1774)

Hillary Rodham Clinton's Birthday

(1947)

U.S. Invaded Grenada (1983)

Two Gray Whales Freed from Ice (1966)

27 28 First Oscar Night 29 John Adam's U.S. Navy's Birthday Statue of Liberty (1929) Dedicated (1886) Birthday (1735) (1775)
Pres. Theodore National Prohibition Roosevelt's Birthday Act Passed (1919)
(1858)

30 Halloween
Donner Party Snowbound (1846) Nevada Day (1864) Mt. Rushmore Completed (1941)

31

First NYC Subway Opened (1904) Nylon Fabric Debuted (1938)

Cuban Missile Crisis National Ended (1962) Organization for Women Founded
(1966)

"Black Tuesday" Stock Market Crashed (1929)

Ezra Pound's Birthday (1885) War of the Worlds Broadcast (1938)

Bullying Prevention Month Computer Learning Month Diversity Awareness Month Energy Awareness Month Family Health Month Filipino-American History Month Fire Prevention Month

Hispanic Heritage Month (9/15 -10/15) International Dinosaur Month Learning Disabilities Month National Book Month School Safety Month Stamp Collecting Month Youth Against Tobacco Month

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1 2 Day of the Dead North & South Dakota Admission Stamp Act in Effect Day (1889)
(1765)

Harry Truman Elected President

(1948)

Jimmy Carter Elected President

(1976)

Daylight Saving Time Ends National Sandwich Day First Dog Orbited Earth (1957)

3 First Cash 4 First Automobile Register Patented Patented (1885)

(1880)

King Tut's Tomb Discovered (1922) 90 Americans Taken Hostage in Iran (1979)

Pres. Franklin Roosevelt Won Third Term (1940)

First Black Female Senator Elected (1992)

5 Abraham Lincoln 6 Scientist Marie 7 Montana 8 Astronomer 9 Elected President Curie's Birthday (1867) Admission Day (1889) Benjamin (1860) Banneker's Birthday (1731) FDR Won Fourth Grover Cleveland Jefferson Davis Presidential Term Elected President Elected President of (1944) (1892) Kristallnacht Began (1938) Confederacy (1861) Douglas Wilder (VA) John F. Kennedy Berlin Wall Opened First Intercollegiate First Black Governor Elected President (1989) (1960) Soccer Match (1869) Elected (1989)
International Day 16 for Tolerance Oklahoma Statehood Day (1889) Oodaaq Island Discovered (1978)

Sesame Street 10 Veterans Day 11 Premiered on PBS Pilgrims Signed (1969) Mayflower Compact Great Wall of China (1620) Opened for World Nov. 11-17 Tourism (1970) Geography Awareness Week Vietnam Veterans Memorial Opened in Washington, DC
(1982)

12 World Kindness 13 Ashura 14 America 15 Elizabeth C. Day Recycles Day Stanton's Birthday (1815) Claude Monet's Laws for Birthday (1840) Articles of Joseph Stalin Segregation on Confederation Became Ruler of Buses Ended (1956) Approved (1777) Soviet Union (1927) Largest War Protest World War II Battle Ever (1969) of Guadalcanal Began (1942)

American Education Week

Nov. 10-16

17 William Tell Shot 18 Lincoln's 19 New Jersey First 20 21 Voltaire's Birthday the Apple (1307) Gettysburg Address to Ratify Bill of (1694) (1863) Rights (1789) Same-sex Marriage Queen Elizabeth I First Hot-Air Balloon Edwin Hubble's Guaranteed in Ascended Throne Flight (1763) (1558) Birthday (1889) Massachusetts (2004) North Carolina Suez Canal Opened Statehood Day (1789) in Egypt (1869)
Homemade Bread Day

Buy Nothing Day 22 Cashew Day Mount St. Helens Erupted (1842) JFK Assassinated
(1963)

23

Zoom Lens Patented (1948)

24 Pittsburgh, Pres. Zachary Taylor's Birthday Pennsylvania (1784) Founded (1758)

25 First 26 Hanukkah 27 28 Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Day Begins at (1789) Ferdinand Sundown Magellan Passed Darwin's Origin of Charles Schulz's Anders Celsius's Wind-Up Car through Magellan the Species Birthday (1922) Birthday (1701) Patented (1881) Strait (1520) Published (1859) Nobel Prize Athlete Joe Ka Lahui Day, Jack Ruby Shot Lee DiMaggio's Birthday Established (1895) (Independence Harvey Oswald (1963) (1914) Hawaii) (1843)
Aviation History Month Child Safety and Prevention Month Diabetes Month Family Stories Month

29 Mark Twain's Louisa May Alcott's Birthday (1832) Birthday (1835)

Jewish Homeland Established in Palestine (1947)

30

Winston Churchill's Birthday (1874)

International Drum Month Native American Heritage Month Peanut Butter Lovers' Month

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1 International Day 2 International Day 3 of Persons with for the Abolition of James Baldwin's Disabilities Slavery Birthday (1924) Illinois Admission Environmental Rosa Parks Arrested Protection Agency Day (1818) (1955) Established (1970) First Human Heart Dec. 1-7 Handwashing Week First Artificial Heart Transplant (1967) Transplant (1982)
World AIDS Day National Cookie Day James Monroe Elected President
(1816)

4 International Volunteer Day

5 Feast of St. Nicholas

13th Amendment Ratified (1865) Washington Monument Completed (1884) First Taxicabs Began Operation
(1897)

6 Delaware Ratified 7 U.S. Constitution

(1786)

Martin Van Buren's Birthday (1789)

Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor (1941)

Game of "Monopoly" Debuted (1935)

Eli Whitney's Birthday (1765)

(1941)

8 Poet John 9 Human Rights Milton's Birthday Day

(1608)

10 Noodle-Ring Day

11 Poinsettia Day

U.S. Entered WWII John Lennon Murdered (1980)

Roller Skates Patented (1884)

Mississippi Admission Day (1817) First Nobel Prizes Awarded (1901)

Indiana Admission Day (1816) Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon's Birthday (1863)

Pennsylvania Admission Day (1787) Stolen Mona Lisa Recovered (1913)

12 New Zealand 13 Alabama 14 Discovered (1642) Admission Day (1819)

First Susan B. Anthony Dollar Issued (1979) Saddam Hussein Captured (2003) South Pole First Reached (1911) DNA First Synthesized (1967) George W. Bush Accepted Presidency After Recount (2000)

Sitting Bull Killed 15 Boston Tea (1890) Party (1773)

16 Maple Syrup Day

17 New Jersey 18 Poor Richard's 19 Louisiana Admission Day (1787) Almanac Published Purchase (1803)
(1732)

20 Winter Begins 21

Game of Basketball Battle of the Bulge Created (1891) Began (1944)

Wright Brothers' Day The Nutcracker Suite Premiered in France Recognized Russia (1892) First Black Secretary American of State Selected Independence (1777) Steven Spielberg's (2000) Birthday (1946)

Apollo 17 Returned to Earth (1972) Pres. Bill Clinton Impeached (1998)

Pilgrims Landed at South Carolina First Plymouth (1620) to Secede from Crossword Puzzle Union (1860) Debuted (1913)

Beatrix Potter Died (1943)

22 Maryland Voted 23 Christmas Eve to Cede Land for District of Columbia Ku Klux Klan (1788) Formed (1865)
Transistor Debuted
(1947)

24 Christmas
Clara Barton's Birthday (1821)

25 Kwanzaa Begins

26 Visit the Zoo Day

27 Iowa Admission 28 Day (1846)

Chewing Gum Patented (1869) First Film Shown
(1895)

Verdi's Opera Aida Premiered (1871)

First Performance of Johannes Kepler's King Lear (1606) Birthday (1571) First Kwanzaa Celebrated (1966) Louis Pasteur's Birthday (1822)

First Nonstop Flight Around the World

(1986)

World Bank Created Pledge of Allegiance Recognized by (1945) Congress (1945)

29 Rudyard 30 31 Pres. Andrew New Year's Eve Johnson's Birthday Kipling's Birthday (1808) (1865) Make Up Your Mind Texas Admission Sun Yat-sen Elected Day Day (1845) First President of Truman Proclaimed China (1911) End of Hostilities in WWII (1946) USSR Established
(1922)

Bingo's Birthday Month Identity Theft Prevention and Awareness Month Safe Toys & Gifts Month Stress-Free Family Holiday Month

Universal Human Rights Month World AIDS Month Write to a Friend Month