Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews
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Day of the Dead (Mexico) |
1775 - Marie Antoinette, last queen of France, was born |
1734 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman, was born Election Day (USA) |
1922 - The entrance to King Tut's tomb was discovered by Howard Carter. |
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1867 - Marie Curie, the scientist who discovered radium, was born. |
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1975 - The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior |
Remembrance Day/ Veteran's Day/ Armistice Day (Canada/ USA/UK) |
1815 - Suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was born. |
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1889 - Nellie Bly began her amazing journey around the world 1840 - Claude Monet, French painter, was born |
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| 1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter, was born | 1805 - The Lewis and Clark expedition reached the Pacific Ocean |
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1902 - The anniversary of the creation of the first 'Teddy" bear. |
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1863 - American president Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address |
1957 - The anniversary of the day when the “Little Rock Nine” had their first real day of school |
1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author, is born |
1981 - Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court |
1898 - George Gershwin, musician and composer, was born 1774- Johnny Appleseed was born |
1722 - Samuel Adams, patriot and revolutionary leader, was born |
Yom Kippur begins at sundown |
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December 2009 |
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1869 - Mahatma Gandhiwas born |
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1188 - The birthday of Saint Fracis of Assisi |
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1871 - The Great fire of Chicago broke out. |
Leif Erikson Day |
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1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt was born |
1492 - Christopher Columbus made landfall in the new world 1899 The Boer War began |
1754 - The birthday of America patriot, Molly Pitcher |
1890 -American President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was born 1066 - The battle of Hastings |
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| 1783 - The first manned hot air balloon flight took place in France | 1854 - Oscar Wild, author, was born |
Diwali (India) |
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1981- Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Rotktown, Virgina, bringing the American Revolutionary War to a close. |
1805 - The Battle of Trafalgar took place 1879 - Thomas Edison successfully tested the light bulb. |
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1862 - The anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation The first Day of autumn in the Northern hemisphere |
1957 - The anniversary of the day when the “Little Rock Nine” had their first real day of school |
1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author, is born |
1981 - Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court |
1898 - George Gershwin, musician and composer, was born 1774- Johnny Appleseed was born |
1722 - Samuel Adams, patriot and revolutionary leader, was born |
Yom Kippur begins at sundown |
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