Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews
July 2012 |
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1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg began
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1908 - Thurgood Marshall was born |
1971 - Koko, the 'talking 'gorilla was born 1897 - Amelia Earhart was born.
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1906 - Baseball player Robert Leroy (Satchel) Paige was born |
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1830 - Painter Camille Pissarro was born |
1767 - American President John Quincy Adams was born |
1854 - Inventor George Eastman was born |
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| 1606 - Painter Rembrandt van Rijn was born |
1872 - Explorer Roald Amundsen was born 1862 - Journalist Ida B. Wells was born |
1921 - Astronaut John Glenn was born |
1834 - French painter Edgar Degas was born |
1969 - Man landed on the moon for the first time.
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1897 - Amelia Earhart was born.
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1796 - American painter George Gatlin was born |
1953 - The Korean war came to an end |
1914 - Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated. World War I began soon after this day. | |
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1863 - Inventor Henry Ford was born |
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August 2012 |
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1770 - Explorer William Clark was born 1818 - Maria Mitchell, astronomer, was born
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1492 - Christopher Columbus sailed for the new world |
1900 - Musician Louis Armstrong was born |
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1945 - The first Atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima |
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1866 - Polar explorer Matthew Henson was born
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1860 - Sharpshooter Annie Oakley was born |
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1945 - Victory over Japan (V-J) Day 1769 - French general Napoleon Bonaparte was born
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1888 - Soldier and writer T.E. Lawrence was born
1896 - Gold was discovered in the Klondike. The Klondike Gold Rush began |
1786 - Famous frontiersman Davy Crockett was born 1863 - The first shots of the American Civil War were fired at Fort Sumpter. |
1774 - Explorer Meriwether Lewis was born. |
1906 - Inventor Philo Farnsworth was born
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79 - Mount Vesuvius erupted destroying the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum |
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1883 - The volcano on the island of Krakatoa erupted. |
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1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech in Washington D.C. |
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1797 - Author Mary shelley was born
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