Bookish Calendar
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1692 – The Salem witch hysteria begins National Pig Day (USA) Holi (India) |
1904 – Dr. Seuss was born. |
1847 – The birthday of inventor Alexander Graham Bell Hinamatsuri -Doll Festival – (Japan) |
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1512 – Mapmaker Gerhardus Mercator was born |
1836 – The fall of the Alamo 1475 – The birthday of painter and sculptor, Michelangelo |
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Girls Write Now Day (USA) International Women’s Day |
1451 – The birthday of adventurer and explorer Amerigo Vespucci |
1913 – American Abolitionist Harriet Tubman died |
Johnny Appleseed Day (USA) |
1888 – The Great Blizzard of ‘88 |
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1879 – The birthday of Albert Einstein |
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| 1767 – Andrew Jackson, American president, was born |
1751 – The birthday of James Madison, America’s 4th president 1678 – Composer and violinist, Antonio Vivaldi, was born |
St. Patrick’s Day (Ireland) |
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1848 – Famous American lawman Wyatt Earp was born |
Spring Equinox – The first day of spring | 1685 – The birthday of musician and composer Johann Sebastian Bach |
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1857 – The birthday of Fannie Farmer, cook and cookbook writer
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1874 – Magician and escape artist Harry Houdini was born 1693 – The birthday of John Harrison, the man who invented the first reliable sea clock. |
1911 – A fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City |
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1854 – France and England declared war on Russia – The Crimean War began |
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Passover begins at sundown |
1853 – The birthday of painter Vincent Van Gogh |
1732 – The birthday of composer and musician Franz Joseph Haydn 1889 – The Eiffel Tower was completed 1927 – Cesar Chavez, labor leader, was born |
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April 2010 |
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April Fools Day |
1834– The birthday a French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi who created the Statue of Liberty 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen was born
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1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. Was killed |
1856 – Educator and leader, Booker T. Washington, was born 1827 – Dr. Joseph Lister, founder of antiseptic surgery, was born |
1909 – Robert E. Peary reached the North Pole |
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Buddha’s birthday |
1866 – The Civil Right’s Bill was passed by Congress 1865 – The American Civil War ended |
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1955 – Anniversary of the development of a safe polio vaccine |
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1743 – The birthday of Thomas Jefferson, American President 1866 – The Birthday of Helen Keller’s “Teacher,” Anne Sullivan |
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1817 – The first public American school for the deaf was founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc. 1912 – The luxury liner “Titanic” sank on her maiden voyage 1947 – Jackie Robinson played his first game in the Major Leagues breaking the color barrier in baseball 1452 – Leonardo da Vinci was born |
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1775 – Paul Revere made his famous ride from Boston to Concord 1906 – San Francisco was rocked by an earthquake that destroyed much of the city |
1775 – The American Revolution began with the battles of Lexington and Concord |
1933 – Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt went on a flight together |
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St. George’s Day (UK) 1564 – The birthday of William Shakespeare National Arbor Day (USA) |
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1874 – The birthday of Guglielmo Marconi – the inventor of wireless telegraphy |
1785 – The birthday of naturalist John James Audubon |
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan died in the Philippines 27th, 1791 – Samuel Morse was born 1927 – The birthday of Coretta Scott King |
28th, 1789 – The anniversary of the Mutiny on the Bounty |
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1899 – The birthday of musician and composer “Duke” Ellington |
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