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

National Bird Day 5 St. Joan of Arc's 6

Birthday (1412)
X-Ray Discovered
(1896)
Telegraph First
Demonstrated (1838)
New Mexico Ratified
(1912)

Jupiter's Moons
Discovered (1610)

7 Last Battle of War 8 Static Electricity

of 1812 (1815)
Day

Sir Sandford
Fleming's Birthday
(1827)

U.S. Hydrogen
Bomb Revealed (1953)

3 Author Jakob
4
Grimm's Birthday

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

(1785)

Alaska Named 49th

Inventor Louis
State (1959)
Braille's Birthday
(1809)

Utah Admission Day

(1896)

Nancy Pelosi
Elected First Female
Speaker of the
House (2007)

9 Oil Discovered
in Texas (1901)

Elvis Presley's
Birthday (1935)

UN General
Connecticut
Ratification Day (1788) Assembly First
Convened (1946)
Jan. 8-14
Pres. Richard
Letter Writing Week Nixon's Birthday (1913)

10 First Diabetic
11
Patient Treated with
Insulin (1922)
Amelia Earhart Flew
Solo Across Pacific
(1935)

John Hancock's 12 Clean Off Your

Birthday (1737)
Desk Day

13 Revolutionary
14 Hat Day
15 Operation
16 Ben Franklin's 17 A.A. Milne's
War Ended (1784)
Desert Storm
Birthday (1706)
Birthday (1882)
Martin Luther King's Announced (1991)
First Public Museum Author James Joyce
First Baby Born in
Birthday (1929)
Opened in SC (1773) Died (1941)
White House (1806)

18

First Woman
Elected to Senate
(1932)

19 Martin Luther 20
King Day
World Religion Day
World's First
Edgar Allan Poe's
Organized
Birthday (1809)
Basketball Game
Popcorn Day

(1892)

21 500 Russians
22 Handwriting Day 23
Killed on "Bloody
Elizabeth Blackwell
Sunday" (1905)
Becomes First
Vietnam Draft
Abortion Legalized Female Physician in
Evaders Pardoned in Roe v. Wade (1973) U.S. (1849)
First Atomic
Submarine
Launched (1954)

(1977)

25
Compliment Day 24 First
Transcontinental
California Gold Rush Phone Call (1915)
Began (1848)
First Winter
Author Edith
Olympics (1924)
Wharton's Birthday
(1862)

Reagan Became
Oldest President
(1981)

Jan. 20-24

No Name-Calling
Week

26 Composer
27 Artist Jackson 28
Wolfgang Amadeus Pollock's Birthday
Michigan Admission Mozart's Birthday
(1912)
Day (1837)
(1756)
Louis Brandeis
Appointed First
Writer Lewis
Jewish Supreme
Carroll's Birthday
(1832)
Court Justice (1916)
Vietnam War Peace Challenger Shuttle
Accords Signed (1973) Exploded (1986)
Australia Day

Eye Care Month

Hot Tea Month

29 Adolf Hitler
30
Named German
Poe's "The Raven" Chancellor (1933)
Published (1845)
"Blue Suede Shoes"
Kansas Admission Recorded (1956)
Day (1861)
Puzzle Day

Chinese New 31
Year
Thirteenth
Amendment
Abolished Slavery
(1865)

Jackie Robinson's
Birthday (1919)

Oatmeal Month
Thank-You Month

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National Freedom
Day

Robinson Crusoe
Day
Columbia Space
Shuttle Disaster (2003)
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
World Cancer
Groundhog Day 15th Amendment
Girls & Women in
Babe Ruth's
2014 Winter
Jules Verne's
Day
Signed (1868)
Sports Day
Birthday (1895)
Olympics Begin Birthday (1828)
Super Bowl Sunday
Feb. 3-7
Queen Elizabeth II Love Your Robot
Russo-Japanese
First U.S.
National
World Wetlands Day School Counseling Presidential Election Weatherperson's
Crowned (1952)
War Began (1904)
Day
Week
(1789)
Day
Mexican-American
NASDAQ Debuted
Charles Dickens's
War Ended (1848)
Confederacy
(1971)
Hank Aaron's
Birthday (1812)
Formed (1861)
Birthday (1934)
Tattooing Machine
Rosa Parks's
Introduced (1875)
Birthday (1913)

Toothache Day

Umbrella Day

10

National Weather
Treaty of Paris
Service Established Signed Ending
(1870)
French and Indian
War (1763)

Hershey's
Chocolate Founded
(1894)

16
King
Presidents'
Tutankhamen's
Day
Tomb Opened (1923)
National PTA
Nylon Patented (1937) Founders Day

11

Red Hand Day

12

Charles Darwin's
Birthday (1809)

Thomas Edison's
Birthday (1847)

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)

Pres. Abraham
First Weekly
Lincoln's Birthday
Weather Report (1878) (1809)
NAACP Founded
Nelson Mandela
(1909)
Freed (1990)
17
18
19
20
The Adventures
Nicolaus
Metropolitan
of Huckleberry Finn Copernicus's
Museum of Art
Published (1885)
Birthday (1473)
Opened in NYC (1872)
Pluto Discovered

Last Classic VW
Beetle Assembled

Fidel Castro
Became Leader of
Cuba (1959)

Steamboat
Patented (1809)

Phonograph
Patented (1878)

(1930)

International
Mother Language
Day

21

Malcolm X
Assassinated (1965)

Santa Anna
Began Siege of the
Alamo (1836)
The Tootsie Roll
Debuted (1896)
Feb. 23-Mar.1

Eating Disorders
Awareness Week

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
National Park
(1925)
Established (1919)

Wilhelm Carl
Grimm's Birthday

American Heart Month

Bird Feeding Month
Black History Month
Children's Dental Health Month

25

(1564)

Muhammad Ali Lost

Boxing Title (1978)

World Thinking
Day

22

Woolworth Opened
First "Five Cent
Store" (1879)

(1945)

24

Scientist Galileo
Galilei's Birthday

Spain Ceded Florida

to the U.S. (1819)

U.S. Marines Went

Ashore at Iwo Jima

23

15

Pres. George
Washington's
Birthday (1732)

"Batman & Robin"

Peace Symbol
Comic Debuted (1944) Designed (1958)

FDR Authorized
Japanese
Internment (1942)

(1972)

Arizona Admission
Day (1912)

Susan B.
Anthony Day

Polar Bear Day

27

Maha Shivratri

28

15th Recorded
DNA Discovered
Passage of Halley's (1953)
Comet (837)
Computer Core
Memory Patented
Poet H.W.
(1956)
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)
Nebraska Admission
Day (1867)
Peace Corps
Established (1961)

2 Inventor
3 Mardi Gras
4
Alexander Graham
Bell's Birthday (1847) U.S. Constitution
Went into Effect (1789)
Texas Declared
Independence from "Star-Spangled
Vermont
Admission
Banner" Became
Mexico (1836)
Day (1791)
National Anthem
Dr. Seuss's Birthday (1931)
Mar. 4-11
(1904)
World Orphan Week
Mar. 3-7
National School
Breakfast Week

6 Hitler Broke
7
World Read Aloud 5 Artist
Day
Michelangelo's
Treaty of Versailles
(1936)
Birthday (1475)
Boston Massacre
(1770)
Civil Rights Protest
"Cyclops"
Dubbed "Bloody
Disappeared
in
Stapler Invented (1868)
Sunday" (1965)
Bermuda Triangle

Read Across
America Day

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

(1918)

(1965)

Daylight Saving 9 Harriet Tubman 10 Johnny

Time Begins
Day
Appleseed Day
Amistad Slaves
Freed (1841)

First Phone Call (1876)

Jumbo Arrived in
U.S. (1882)

Brain Awareness
Week

11 Writer Jack
12 Uranus
13 Passover
14
Kerouac's Birthday Discovered (1781)
Begins at
(1922)
Sundown
Pres. Andrew
Terrorist Bombing in
Truman Doctrine
World Kidney Day
Johnson's
Madrid Killed 200
Enacted (1947)
(2004)
Impeachment Trial
Eli Whitney
Began (1868)
Janet Reno Made
Patented Cotton Gin
U.S. Attorney
Teaching Evolution (1793)
General (1993)
Prohibited in Tenn. Physicist Albert
Schools (1925)
Einstein's Birthday

Mar. 10-16

Barbie Debuted (1959)

Mar. 9-15

Teen Tech Week

Maine Admission
Day (1820)
First Blood Bank
Opened (1937)

(1879)

16 St. Patrick's
Pres. James
Madison's Birthday Day
(1751)

Barnum & Bailey

Circus Debuted (1919)

17 Britain Repealed 18 Academy

19 Spring Begins 20
the Stamp Act (1766) Awards First
Agriculture Day
Televised (1953)
First Space Walk
(1965)
Iraq War Began (2003) Uncle Tom's Cabin
Published (1852)

22
International Day 21 World Water
for Elimination of
Day
Racial
Hale-Bopp Comet
Discrimination
Approached Earth
(1997)
World Poetry Day

Mar. 16-22

Johann Bach's
Birthday (1685)

Poison Prevention
Week

23 Harry Houdini's 24 Meteorite

25
World
Meteorological Day Birthday (1874)
Exploded in
Wisconsin (1865)
Exxon Valdez Oil
Ponce de Leon
Spill (1989)
Fire at Triangle
Discovered &
Shirtwaist Co. Killed
Named Florida (1513)
145 (1911)
Lewis & Clark
Began Expedition
North America's
(1806)
First Test Tube
Twins Born (1982)
Near Miss Day (1989)
30 Eiffel Tower
31
Artist Vincent
Van Gogh's Birthday Officially Opened
(1853)

(1889)

Treaty to Purchase
Alaska Submitted

Major League
Baseball Strike
Ended (1995)

(1867)

15
Julius Caesar
Murdered"Ides of
March" (44 BC)

Deaf History Month (3/13-4/15)

Irish-American Heritage Month
Music in Our Schools Month
National Craft Month

Make Your Own 26 World Theatre

Holiday Day
Day

27 First Washing
28 Coca-Cola
Machine Patented
Invented (1886)
(1930)

Playwright
Tennessee
Williams's Birthday

Rosenbergs Found
Guilty of Treason

Spanish Civil War

Ended (1939)

(1951)

(1911)

Last U.S. Troops

Left South Vietnam

Sandra Day
O'Connor's Birthday

(1973)

(1930)

29

National Nutrition Month

Save Your Vision Month
Women's History Month
Youth Art Month

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2
April Fool's Day1 International
Children's Book Day
Cigarette Ads
Banned from Radio World Autism
& TV (1970)
Awareness Day

Apple Computer
Founded (1976)

3 Pres. William H. 4 Pocahontas

5
First Pony
Express Service (1860) Harrison Died (1841)
Married John Rolfe
Scientist Jane
Goodall's Birthday
(1934)

Philadelphia Mint
Authorized (1792)

(1614)

NATO Created (1949)

Martin Luther King
Jr. Assassinated

Booker T.
Washington's
Birthday (1856)

Microsoft Founded

Helen Keller First

Learned Sign
Language (1887)

(1968)

Hans Christian
Andersen's Birthday

(1975)

(1805)

Tartan Day
First Modern
Olympics (1896)

6 U.N. World Health 7 17th Amendment 8 Name Yourself

Day
Ratified (1913)
Day

9 Encourage a
10 Einstein
11 Civil War Began 12
Young Writer Day
Revealed Theory of (1861)
Relativity (1905)
First Man in Space
Civil War Ended (1865) Joseph Pulitzer's
(1961)
1968 Civil Rights
Birthday (1847)
First Full-Color Film
Act Signed (1968)
Shown (1914)

5,000 Suffragists
Marched on
Washington (1913)

North Pole First

Reached (1909)

Billie Holiday's
Birthday (1915)

U.S. Entered WWI

(1917)

Apr. 6-12

Volunteer Week

13 Webster's First 14
Thomas
Jefferson's Birthday Dictionary
(1743)
Copyrighted (1828)
Oxygen Tank Burst Abraham Lincoln
on Apollo 13 (1970)
Assassinated (1865)
Apr. 13-19

The Titanic Hit

Iceberg (1912)

Library Week

20 City of Rome
Founded (753 BC)
First Game Played
at Fenway Park (1912)
Easter

Jackie Robinson 15 Wilbur Wright's

Day
Birthday (1867)

16 Daffy Duck
Debuted (1937)

Leonardo da Vinci's Wayne Gretzky

Retired (1999)
Birthday (1452)

17 International
Jugglers Day

Ford Mustang
Debuted (1964)

18 American
19
Revolution Began
(1775)

Paul Revere Day

Okla. City Bombing

Killed 168 (1995)

Ray Kroc Acquired

McDonald's (1955)
Boston Marathon
Terrorist Attack (2013)

21 Earth Day

Columbine High
School Shooting
Killed 15 (1999)

Jelly Bean Day

First Earth Day
Observed (1970)

22 World Book &

Copyright Day
Shakespeare's
Birthday (1564)

23 Take Our
24 First Use of
25
Daughters & Sons
Name "America"
(1507)
to Work Day
Library of Congress First License Plates
Required (1901)
Established (1800)
Ella Fitzgerald's
Mailbox Inventor
Birthday (1917)
Born (1815)

26
John Wilkes
Booth Killed (1865)
Studio 54 Disco
Opened (1977)
Chernobyl Nuclear
Reactor Disaster
(1986)

Spain Declared War

on U.S. (1898)

27 Pres. James
28
Holocaust
Remembrance Day Monroe's Birthday
(1758)
Begins at
Sundown
Maryland Admission
Day (1788)
Tell a Story Day
York Captured by
U.S. (1813)
Activist Coretta
Scott King's Birthday

International
Dance Day

29 International
Jazz Day

30

Zipper Patented (1842) Louisiana Admission

Day (1812)
Prince William
Casey Jones Died
Married Kate
(1900)
Middleton (2011)
Vietnam War Ended
(1975)

(1927)

Alcohol & Drug Awareness Month

Animal Cruelty Prevention Month
Autism Awareness Month
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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May Day
Empire State
Building Opened
(1931)

1 Soviet Union
2 National
3
Announced Fall of
Scrapbooking Day
Berlin (1945)
World Press
Nelson Mandela
Freedom Day
Elected President of
South Africa (1994)

4 Cinco de Mayo 5 International No

Diet Day
(Mexico)

International
Firefighters Day

Freedom Riders Left

D.C. for New
Orleans (1961)
May 4-11

John Scopes
Arrested for
Teaching Darwinism
(1926)

First American in
Space (1961)

National Music
Week

May 5-9

Teacher
Appreciation Week

6 School Nurse Day 7 World Red Cross 8 John Brown's

9 Astronomy Day 10
Day
Birthday (1800)
Composer Peter
World Fair Trade
Beatles Signed First
National Teacher
Tchaikovsky's
Pres. Harry S.
Day
Recording Contract
Day
Birthday (1840)
Truman's Birthday
Giant Squid Attack
(1884)
(1962)
(1847)
Lusitania Sunk (1915)
World Asthma Day
VE Day (1945)
First
Psychoanalysist
Transcontinental
Sigmund Freud's
Railway Completed
Birthday (1856)
(1869)

Hindenburg Disaster

Nelson Mandela
Became South
Africa's President

(1937)

May 5-11

Screen-Free Week
Mother's Day 11 Kite Day
Minnesota
Admission Day

(1858)

Sports Writer Mike

Lupica's Birthday

Florence
Nightingale's
Birthday (1820)

(1994)

12 U.S. Declared
War on Mexico

13 Lewis and Clark 14 Int'l Day of

Families
Expedition Began

(1846)

(1803)

First Olympic
Games Held in U.S.

Pres. Jimmy Carter

Visited Cuba (2002)

(1952)

May 11-17

(1904)

First U.S. Space

Station Launched

May 12-18

Transportation
Week

Children's Book
Week

(1973)

15 Biographers Day 16 Armed Forces

17
Day
First U.S. Nickel
U.S. Dept. of
Minted (1866)
International Day
Agriculture Created
Against
(1862)
Homophobia
First Air Mail Route
Lag BaOmer
Established in U.S.
(Jewish Festival)
(1918)
Begins at Sundown
New York Stock
Exchange
Established (1792)

Police Week

Supreme Court
Ruled on Brown v.
Board of Education
(1954)

International
Museum Day
Pope John Paul II's
Birthday (1920)

18 New England
Confederation
Formed (1643)

Mount St. Helens

Erupted (1980)

19 Dolley Madison's 20 American Red

21 Buy a Musical
Birthday (1768)
Cross Established
Instrument Day

May 19-26

Backyard Games
Week

Jesse Owens Broke

Three World
Records (1935)

(1881)

Amelia Earhart Flew

Solo Across the
Atlantic (1932)
First Hydrogen
Bomb Dropped by
Air (1956)

25 Memorial Day 26
International
Missing Children's
Dorothea Lange's
Day
Birthday (1895)
Fork Debuted in
Sally Ride's Birthday
U.S. (1630)
(1951)
Babe Ruth Hit 714th
Home Run (1935)

Charles Lindbergh
Began Transatlantic
Flight (1932)

22 Botanist Carolus 23 First Telegraph

24
Linnaeus's Birthday
Message
(1707)
Transmitted (1844)
International Day for
South
Carolina
Brooklyn Bridge
Biological Diversity
Admission Day (1788) Opened (1883)
Pres. Nixon Visited
Wright Brothers
Israeli Troops Pulled
the Soviet Union
Patented the Aircraft Out of Lebanon (2000)
(1972)
(1906)

27 Athlete Jim
28 Ascension Day
29
Thorpe's Birthday
(Christian Feast
(1888)
Day)
St. Petersburg
Sierra
Club
Founded
Founded (1703)
Rhode Island
(1892)
Admission Day (1790)
Golden Gate Bridge
Linda Finch
Opened (1937)
Completed Earhart's Wisconsin
Admission Day (1848)
Flight Around the
World (1997)
Hillary and Tenzing
Reached Mt.
Everest Summit (1953)
First Recorded
Witch Execution

(1647)

Asian-Pacific-American Heritage Month

Asthma & Allergy Awareness Month
Better Hearing and Speech Month
Clean Air Month
Get Caught Reading Month
Inventors Month

Indianapolis 500 30 World No

Debuted (1911)
Tobacco Day
Lincoln Memorial
Dedicated (1927)

Mental Health Month

National Bike Month
National Water Safety Month
Physical Fitness & Sports Month
Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Transportation Month

31

First U.S. Copyright

Law Enacted (1790)
South Africa
Became
Independent (1961)

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2 Shavuot (Jewish 3 First Supermarket 4
Festival) Begins at Cart Introduced (1937)
Sundown
American
Indians
Kentucky Admission
Granted
U.S.
Day (1792)
First U.S. Space
Citizenship (1924)
Walk (1965)
Tennessee Admission
USDA
Introduces
Tiananmen Square
Day (1796)
MyPlate Nutrition
Demonstrations (1989)
CNN Debuted (1980)
Guidelines (2011)
Stand for Children
Day

1 Radio Patented

5 First Drive-In
6 Homer Plessy
7
U.N. World
Environment Day
Movie Theater (1933) Broke Segregation
Laws (1892)
Robert F. Kennedy D-Day (1944)
VCR Introduced (1975)
Assassinated (1968)

(1896)

8 Hong Kong
9
Leased to UK for 99
Pentecost/Whitsunday Years (1898)
World Oceans Day
Children's Day

Alcoholics
Anonymous
Founded (1935)
Ballpoint Pen
Patented (1943)

First AIDS Report

Published (1981)

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

15 Valentina
16 M.C. Escher's 17
Tereshkova First
Birthday (1898)
Arkansas Admission Woman in Space
Day (1836)
Republic of Iceland
(1963)
Established (1944)
Oregon Boundary
Treaty Signed (1846)
Father's Day

War of 1812
Began (1812)

Poet William
Butler Yeats's
Birthday (1865)

13 Flag Day

14

Official U.S. Flag

Adopted (1777)

Presidents of North
& South Korea Met First Commercial
Computer
(2000)
Introduced (1951)

18 First Official
19 World Refugee 20 Summer
Game of Baseball
Day
Begins
(1846)

21

New Hampshire
West Virginia
Admission Day (1863) Admission Day (1788)

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

Cyrus McCormick
Patented
Mechanical Reaper
(1834)

WNBA Debuted (1997)

24 General Custer 25
Explorer George 22 First Typewriter 23 Term "Flying
Vancouver's Birthday Patented (1868)
Saucers" First Used Died at Little
(1757)
(1947)
Bighorn (1876)
Athlete Wilma
Pledge of Allegiance Rudolph's Birthday
Author George
Recognized by
(1940)
Orwell's Birthday
Congress (1942)
(1903)
Supreme Court
Eric Carle's Birthday
Justice Clarence
(1929)
Thomas's Birthday
(1948)
First Color TV
Broadcast (1951)
Ramadan Begins 29 Meteor Day

30

Bicycle
Patented (1819)

26 Helen Keller's
Birthday (1880)

Inventor of the
Thermometer Born

First Newbery
Medal Awarded (1922)

(1824)

First Map of Human

Genome Completed
(2000)

26th Amendment
Shakespeare's
Theater Destroyed by Changed Voting
Age (1971)
Fire (1613)
Remote Control
Introduced (1964)

Child Vision Awareness Month

Dairy Month
Fireworks Safety Month
National Rivers Month

27 Paul Bunyan
Day

National Rose Month

Safety Month
Smile Month

28

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Battle of
Gettysburg (1863)

1 Pres. James
2 Compliment Your 3 Independence 4 P. T. Barnum's
Garfield Shot (1881)
Mirror Day
Day (1776)
Birthday (1810)

Canada Day (1867)

First U.S. Zoo
Opened (1874)
ZIP Codes
Introduced (1963)

Amelia Earhart
Disappeared (1937)

Stay Out of the Sun Thoreau Moved to

Walden Pond (1845)
Day

Civil Rights Act of

1964 (1964)

Idaho Admission
Day (1890)

Larry Doby Signed

with Cleveland
Indians (1946)

Statue of Liberty
Presented (1884)

First Cloned Sheep

(Dolly) Born (1996)

U.S. Veterans
Administration
Created (1930)

Republican Party 6 Pinocchio First

Formed (1854)
Printed (1883)

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

Don't Step on a 10 World

Bee Day
Population Day

11 Etch-a-Sketch
Introduced (1960)

12

First Female VicePresidential

(1767)
Candidate
Babe Ruth Debuted Announced (1984)
in Major League
Baseball (1914)

Wyoming Admission Pres. John Quincy

Day (1890)
Adams's Birthday

(2005)

Author Patricia
Polacco's Birthday
(1944)

First World Cup 13 Bastille Day in

Soccer Tournament France (1789)

14 Howard Hughes 15
Set New Speed
(1930)
Record (1938)
Nazis Became Sole
25-hour Blackout in Political Party in
First International
New York City (1977) Germany (1933)
Manned Spaceflight
$100 Bill Became
Largest U.S.
Currency (1969)
National Ice
Cream Day
First Special
Olympics (1968)

20 Ernest
Hemingway's
Birthday (1899)

First Moon Landing

(1969)

Scopes Found
Guilty in "Monkey
Trial" (1925)

(1975)

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

Mein Kampf
Published (1925)

18 First Women's 19
Rights Convention
Held (1848)

Gymnast Nadia
Comaneci Scored
First East to West
First Perfect 10 (1976) Rowing of the
Atlantic (1969)

First Parking Meters

(1935)

21 Pied Piper
22 Pneumatic Tires 23 Apollo 11
24
Arrived in Hamelin
Invented (1888)
Astronauts Safely
(1264)
Return to Earth (1969)
Hale-Bopp Comet
Discovered (1995)

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

Janet Reno's
Birthday (1938)

27 Beatrix Potter's 28 Sharon Creech's 29

Korean War
Veterans' Armistice Birthday (1866)
Birthday (1945)
Day
14th Amendment
NASA Established
(1958)
Ratified (1868)
Parents' Day
World War I Began Prince Charles
Bugs Bunny
Married Lady Diana
(1914)
Debuted (1940)
Spencer (1981)
Bombing at Olympic
Games in Atlanta

Emily Bront's
Birthday (1818)
Henry Ford's
Birthday (1863)
In God We Trust
Made U.S. Motto

30 Columbus
31
Arrived in Trinidad
(1498)

J.K. Rowling's
Birthday (1965)

(1956)

(1996)

Blueberries Month
Hot Dog Month

Read an Almanac Month

Recreation and Parks Month

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1 Ice Cream
Colorado
Admission Day (1876) Sandwich Day

Declaration of
Independence
Signed (1776)
First U.S. Census:
Population
3,929,214 (1790)
Lincoln Penny
Issued (1909)

3 Musician Louis
4 Electric Traffic
5 Bacteriologist
6
Armstrong's Birthday Lights First Installed Alexander Fleming's
National Kids Day
(1901)
(1914)
Birthday (1881)
Columbus Set Sail Nazis Arrested Anne Astronaut Neil
Atomic Bomb
(1492)
Frank & Family (1944) Armstrong's Birthday Dropped on
(1930)
Hiroshima (1945)
William Faulkner
President Barack
Stamp Issued (1987)
Obama's Birthday

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)
Jesse Owens Won
Nixon Announced
Four Olympic Gold
Resignation (1974)
Medals (1936)

Friendship Day

(1961)

10 Martian Moon
11 International
Missouri
Admission Day (1821) Phobos Discovered Youth Day
(1677)

Smithsonian
Institution Opened

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

Panama Canal
Opened (1914)

Tyrannosaurus Sue Activist Lucy Stone's

First Inmates Arrived Discovered (1990)
Largest Blackout in
Birthday (1818)
(1846)
at Alcatraz (1934)
U.S. History (2003)
First Two-Way
Japanese
Satellite
Internment Survivors
Conversation (1948)
Awarded $20K (1988)

19 Pres. Benjamin 20
Davy Crockett's 17 First American 18 Aviation Day
Birthday (1786)
Child of English
Harrison's Birthday
Adolf Hitler Elected (1833)
Parents Born (1587)
Klondike Gold Rush
Fuhrer (1934)
Began (1896)
Explorer Meriwether
Lewis's Birthday (1774)

15 Bathysphere
16
Reached Record
Depth (1934)

Woodstock Music &

Art Fair Opened (1969)
New Solar System
Discovered (2001)

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)

International Day 23
for Remembrance of
Slave Trade & Its
Abolition
Sacco & Vanzetti
Executed Amid
Protest (1927)

Mona Lisa Stolen

King Kong
Premiered (1933)

(1911)

Hawaii Statehood
Day (1959)

25 Women's
Mount Vesuvius 24 New Orleans
Erupted (79)
Founded by French Equality Day
(1718)

Mexico Gained
Independence from
Spain (1821)

Athlete Althea
Gibson's Birthday
(1927)

First Swimmer
Earth First
Crossed the English Photographed from
Channel (1875)
the Moon (1966)
International
Blog Day

31

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
Cleopatra
Committed Suicide
(30 BC)

Author Mary
Shelley's Birthday
(1797)

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

Trail Mix Day

Princess Diana Died
(1997)

Back to School Month

Family Fun Month
Get Ready for Kindergarten Month

Happiness Happens Month

Kids' Vision and Learning Month

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Labor Day
Germany Invaded
Poland, Starting
WWII (1939)
Titanic Wreckage
Located (1985)

Grandparents 7 International
Day
Literacy Day
Babe Ruth Hit First
Home Run (1915)
Sept. 7-13

Pres. Ford
Pardoned Pres.
Nixon (1974)

1 Great Fire of
London (1666)
Pres. Theodore
Roosevelt: "Speak
Softly & Carry a Big
Stick" (1901)

2 Treaty of Paris
Ended American
Revolution (1783)

Victory over Japan

(V-J) Day (1945)

3 Los Angeles
Founded (1781)

Wizard of Oz
Published (1900)

4 Be Late for
Something Day

Little Rock 9
Prevented from
Integrating (1957)

First Pictures Taken

of Mars's Surface

Suicide Prevention
Week

Yellow Star of David

Required for All
German Jews (1941)

Mother Teresa Died

Star Trek Debuted

on TV (1966)

(1972)

(1997)

11 Henry Hudson
12 International
13
Began Exploration
Chocolate Day
Writer O. Henry's
of Hudson River (1609)
Birthday (1862)
Milton Hershey's
First AfricanBirthday (1857)
Tragic Terrorist
American Woman in
Attack on Three
Roald Dahl's
Space (1992)
American Cities (2001)
Birthday (1916)
Patriot Day

14 Agatha Christie's 15 International Day 16

Star-Spangled
Banner Composed
Birthday (1890)
for Preservation of
(1814)
Ozone Layer
Alexander Fleming
Psychologist Ivan
Discovered Penicillin Stepfamily Day
Pavlov's Birthday
(1928)
(1849)
Mexican
Nuremberg Law
Independence Day
First Peacetime
Enacted in Germany (1810)
Draft Established
(1935)
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
Sept. 17-23
Published (1851)
Constitution Week

21 Elephant
22
23
Autumn Begins
Appreciation Day
Neptune Discovered
"Yes, Virginia, there
Emancipation
(1846)
is a Santa Claus"
Proclamation Issued
(1862)
Editorial Published
(1897)
Iran-Iraq War Began
(1980)
The Hobbit Was
Published (1937)

24 Bill of Rights
25
Rosh
Hashanah Begins Created (1789)
at Sundown
Sandra Day
Author F. Scott
O'Connor Became
Fitzgerald's Birthday First Female
(1896)
Supreme Court
Justice (1981)

International
Day of Peace

(1895)

Pres. Chester A.
Arthur Inaugurated
(1881)

Samuel Adams's
Birthday (1722)

First Televised
Presidential Debate

First Skyscraper
Opened in NYC

(1960)

30

Nuremberg Trials
Found 22 Guilty (1946)

(1920)

Be Kind to Editors & Writers Month

Better Breakfast Month
Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
Classical Music Month
Hunger Action Month

(1878)

Johnny Appleseed's
Birthday (1774)

Sept. 21-27

Black Sox Scandal

Indictments Given

19 Author Upton
20
Sinclair's Birthday

27
Native American 26 Ancestor
Day
Appreciation Day

%DQQHG%RRNV
Week

(1820)

6
(1901)

Tragedy at Munich
Summer Olympics

(1976)

8 Name "United
9 Rickshaw
10
Invented (1869)
States of America"
Adopted (1776)
20 Black Students
California Admission Entered Alabama
Public School (1963)
Day (1850)

28 Bacteriologist
29 International
Tomatoes First
Proven Safe to Eat
Louis Pasteur Died
Translation Day

5 Pres. William
McKinley Shot

Kids'Good Manners Month

Library Card Sign-Up Month
National Chicken Month
National Piano Month
National Sickle Cell Month

(1932)

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World Teacher's
Day
Oct. 5-11

Fire Prevention
Week

1 Mohandas
2 Yom Kippur
3
Spain Ceded
Louisiana to France Gandhi's Birthday
Begins at
(1800)
(1869)
Sundown
Henry Ford
Peanuts Comic Strip Frank Robinson
Introduced the
Debuted (1950)
Became First Black
Model T (1908)
Baseball Manager
(1974)
Pres. Jimmy Carter's
East and West
Birthday (1924)
Germany United (1990)

5 Child Health Day 6 Carbon Paper

Patented (1806)
Thomas Edison
Showed First Motion Niels Bohr's
Birthday (1885)
Picture (1889)

Metric Week

12 Columbus Day13
Columbus
Landed in Bahamas
Cornerstone of
(1492)
White House Laid
USS Cole Attacked (1792)
(2000)

Oct. 12-18

15 Dictionary Day

Teen Read Week

U.S. Dept. of
Transportation
Created (1966)

International Day 11
of the Girl
Eleanor Roosevelt's
Birthday (1884)
First Staffed Apollo
Mission Launched
(1968)

16 Black Poetry
Day

Mother Teresa
Awarded Nobel
Peace Prize (1979)

21 Nat'l Nut Day

22
Last Major Battle 19 Senate Ratified 20 Apple Day
Louisiana Purchase
of American
Alfred Nobel's
First Parachute
(1803)
Revolution Ended
Birthday (1833)
Jump from Balloon
(1781)
Oct. 20-24
(1797)
School
Bus
Safety
Thomas Edison
Largest Mass of
Week
Invented Light bulb
Gold Discovered
(1879)

(1872)

Oct. 4-10

World Space Week

17 Alaska
18
Purchased from
World Food Day
Russia (1867)
International Day for
Cuban Missile Crisis Ending Poverty
Black Olympians
Began (1962)
Suspended for
Mae Jemison's
Protest (1968)
Birthday (1956)

Nelson Mandela
Awarded Nobel
Peace Prize (1993)

Earth Science Week

Oct. 19-25

Chemistry Week

23 United Nations 24 Make a

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

27
First Continental 26 Navy Day
Congress Adjourned
Pres. Theodore
(1774)
Roosevelt's Birthday
Hillary Rodham
(1858)
Clinton's Birthday
First NYC Subway
(1947)
Opened (1904)
Two Gray Whales
Freed from Ice (1966) Nylon Fabric
Debuted (1938)

Statue of Liberty 28 First Oscar Night 29

(1929)
Dedicated (1886)
National Prohibition "Black Tuesday"
Stock Market
Act Passed (1919)
Crashed (1929)
Cuban Missile Crisis
National
Ended (1962)
Organization for
Women Founded

Bullying Prevention Month

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

Sputnik I Launched
into Orbit (1957)

7 Great Fire of
8 Leif Erikson Day 9 U.S. Naval
10
Chicago Started (1871)
Academy Opened in
Washington
MD (1845)
Monument Opened
(1888)
King Tut's Treasures
Discovered (1924)
John Lennon's
Birthday (1940)
Pac-Man Arcade
Game Released (1979)

14 White Cane
Battle of
Hastings Fought (1066) Safety Day
Martin Luther King
Jr. Awarded Nobel
Peace Prize (1964)

Astronomy Day

John Adam's
Birthday (1735)

30 Halloween

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

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

(1966)

Hispanic Heritage Month (9/15-10/15)

International Dinosaur Month
Learning Disabilities Month
School Safety Month
Stamp Collecting Month
Youth Against Tobacco Month

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Day of the Dead1
Stamp Act in Effect
(1765)

2 Ashura

Daylight Saving
Time Ends

National Sandwich
Day

North & South

Dakota Admission
Day (1889)

First Dog Orbited

Earth (1957)

3 First Cash
4 First Automobile
Register Patented
Patented (1885)
(1880)

King Tut's Tomb

Discovered (1922)

Pres. Franklin
Roosevelt Won
Third Term (1940)

90 Americans Taken
First Black Female
Hostage in Iran (1979)
Senator Elected (1992)

Harry Truman
Elected President
(1948)

5 Abraham Lincoln
Elected President

6 Scientist Marie
Curie's Birthday

(1860)

Jefferson Davis
Elected President of
Confederacy (1861)
First Intercollegiate
Soccer Match (1869)

7 Montana
Admission Day

(1867)

8
(1889)

FDR Won Fourth

Presidential Term

Grover Cleveland
Elected President

Douglas Wilder (VA)

First Black Governor
Elected (1989)

John F. Kennedy
Elected President

(1944)

(1892)

(1960)

Jimmy Carter
Elected President
(1976)

9 Sesame Street
10 Veterans Day 11
Astronomer
Benjamin
Premiered on PBS
Pilgrims Signed
Banneker's Birthday (1969)
Mayflower Compact
(1731)
(1620)
Great Wall of China
Opened for World
Kristallnacht Began
(1938)
Tourism (1970)
Berlin Wall Opened
Vietnam Veterans
(1989)
Memorial Opened in
Washington, DC (1982)

12 World Kindness
Elizabeth C.
Stanton's Birthday
Day
(1815)

Joseph Stalin
Became Ruler of
Soviet Union (1927)

Zoom Lens
Patented (1948)

Mark Twain's
Birthday (1835)

23 Pres. Zachary
24 Pittsburgh,
25
Taylor's Birthday
Pennsylvania
(1784)
Founded (1758)
Darwin's Origin of
Wind-Up Car
the Species
Patented (1881)
Published (1859)
Athlete Joe
Jack Ruby Shot Lee
DiMaggio's Birthday
Harvey Oswald (1963) (1914)

15

Articles of
Confederation
Approved (1777)
Largest War Protest
Ever (1969)

World War II Battle

of Guadalcanal
Began (1942)

20 Voltaire's
Birthday (1694)

21 Mount St.
Helens Erupted

First Hot-Air Balloon

Flight (1763)
North Carolina
Statehood Day

Winston Churchill's
Birthday (1874)

International Drum Month

Native American Heritage Month
Peanut Butter Lovers' Month

22
(1842)

JFK Assassinated
(1963)

(1789)

26 Thanksgiving 27 Buy Nothing Day 28

First
Thanksgiving Day
Anders Celsius's
Ferdinand Magellan
(1789)
Birthday (1701)
Passed through
Charles Schulz's
Magellan Strait (1520)
Nobel Prize
Birthday (1922)
Established (1895)
Ka Lahui
(Independence Day,
Hawaii) (1843)

30

Aviation History Month

Child Safety and Prevention Month
Diabetes Month

14 America
Recycles Day

Laws for
Segregation on
Buses Ended (1956)

16 Queen Elizabeth I 17 William Tell Shot 18 Lincoln's

19 New Jersey First
International
Ascended
Throne
Day for Tolerance
the Apple (1307)
Gettysburg Address to Ratify Bill of
(1558)
(1863)
Rights (1789)
Same-sex Marriage
Oklahoma
Suez
Canal
Opened
Guaranteed in
Edwin Hubble's
Statehood Day (1889)
in Egypt (1869)
Massachusetts (2004)
Birthday (1889)
Nov. 16-22
Nov. 17-21
Geography
American Education
Awareness Week
Week

Cashew Day

13 Claude Monet's
Birthday (1840)

29
Louisa May
Alcott's Birthday (1832)
Jewish Homeland
Established in
Palestine (1947)

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1 International Day 2 International Day 3
for the Abolition of
of Persons with
James Baldwin's
Slavery
Disabilities
Birthday (1924)
Environmental
Illinois Admission
Rosa Parks Arrested Protection Agency
Day (1818)
(1955)
Established (1970)
First Human Heart
First Artificial Heart Transplant (1967)
Transplant (1982)
World AIDS Day

4 International
Volunteer Day

National Cookie
Day
James Monroe
Elected President

5 Feast of St.
Nicholas

Martin Van Buren's

Birthday (1789)

(1816)

13th Amendment
Ratified (1865)
Washington
Monument
Completed (1884)

Game of "Monopoly"
Debuted (1935)

First Taxicabs
Began Operation
(1897)

Delaware Ratified 7 Eli Whitney's

Birthday (1765)
U.S. Constitution
(1786)

Japanese Attacked
Pearl Harbor (1941)
Dec. 7-13

Handwashing Week

8 Poet John
9 Human Rights
Milton's Birthday
Day

U.S. Entered WWII

(1941)

John Lennon
Murdered (1980)

14 Sitting Bull Killed 15

Alabama
Admission Day (1819) (1890)
Game of Basketball
South Pole First
Created (1891)
Reached (1911)
DNA First
Synthesized (1967)

Roller Skates
Patented (1884)

Hanukkah
Begins at
Sundown
Boston Tea Party
(1773)

11 Poinsettia Day

Mississippi
Admission Day (1817)

Indiana Admission
Day (1816)

First Nobel Prizes

Awarded (1901)

Astronomer Annie
Jump Cannon's
Birthday (1863)

16 Maple Syrup
Day

Battle of the Bulge

Began (1944)

George W. Bush
Accepted
Presidency After
Recount (2000)

12 New Zealand
13
Discovered (1642)

Pennsylvania
Admission Day (1787)

First Susan B.
Anthony Dollar
Issued (1979)

Stolen Mona Lisa

Recovered (1913)

Saddam Hussein
Captured (2003)

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

Wright Brothers' Day The Nutcracker

Suite Premiered in
France Recognized Russia (1892)
American
Independence (1777) Steven Spielberg's
Birthday (1946)

20

South Carolina First

to Secede from
Union (1860)

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

First Black Secretary

of State Selected
(2000)

Winter Solstice 21 Beatrix Potter

Died (1943)
Pilgrims Landed at
Plymouth (1620)
Crossword Puzzle
Debuted (1913)

(1608)

10 Noodle-Ring
Day

22 Maryland Voted 23 Christmas Eve

to Cede Land for
District of Columbia Ku Klux Klan
Formed (1865)
(1788)
Transistor Debuted
(1947)

24 Christmas
Clara Barton's
Birthday (1821)

25 Kwanzaa
Begins

26 Visit the Zoo

Day

First Performance of Johannes Kepler's

King Lear (1606)
Birthday (1571)

Verdi's Opera Aida

Premiered (1871)

First Kwanzaa
Celebrated (1966)

First Nonstop Flight

Around the World

Louis Pasteur's
Birthday (1822)
World Bank Created

(1986)

29 Rudyard
30 New Year's
31
Iowa Admission 28 Pres. Andrew
Day (1846)
Johnson's Birthday Kipling's Birthday
Eve
(1808)
(1865)
Make Up Your Mind
Chewing Gum
Texas Admission
Sun Yat-sen Elected Day
Patented (1869)
Day (1845)
First President of
Truman Proclaimed
First Film Shown
China (1911)
(1895)
End of Hostilities in
USSR Established WWII (1946)
Pledge of Allegiance
(1922)
Recognized by
Congress (1945)

Bingo's Birthday Month

Identity Theft Prevention and Awareness Month
Safe Toys & Gifts Month
Stress-Free Family Holiday Month

27

(1945)

Universal Human Rights Month

World AIDS Month
Write to a Friend Month