Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews
November 2013 |
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Day of the Dead (Mexico)
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1775 - Marie Antoinette, last queen of France, was born
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1734 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman, was born
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1922 - The entrance to King Tut's tomb was discovered by Howard Carter. |
Election Day(USA) |
1867 - Marie Curie, the scientist who discovered radium, was born. |
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1975 - The Edmund Fitzgeraldsank 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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1869 - The Suez Canal was opened |
1902 - The anniversary of the creation of the first 'Teddy" bear. |
1863 - American presidentAbraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address | ||
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1744- Abigail Adams was born 1718 - The pirate Blackbeard was killed
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1835 - Andrew Carnegie was born
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1883 - Sojourner Truth died.
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The beginning of Hannukah |
1757 - Poet William Blake was born. |
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1874 - Winston Churchill was born 1835 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was born. |
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December 2013 |
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1955 - Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus |
1859 - The birthday of painter Georges Seurat
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1872 - The Mary Celeste was found with all her passengers missing |
1784 - Poet Phillis Wheatley died |
1896 - The birthday of Ira Gershwin, composer and musician. |
1941 - Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese
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1626 - Queen Kristina of Sweden was born. 1542 - Mary Queen of Scots was born 1765 - Inventor Eli Whitney was born
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1830 - Poet Emily Dickinson was born |
1911 - Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole |
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1890 - Chief Sitting Bull died. 1832 - Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, master engineer, was born |
1770 - Ludwig Van Beethoven was born 1485 - Catherine of Aragon, future Queen of England, was born. 1773 - The Boston Tea Party took place |
1903 - Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight in a flying machine. |
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1630 - The Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts The first day of Winter |
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1867 - Madame Sarah Breedlove Walker was born 1823 - Clement C. Moore's A Visit from St. Nicholas was first published. |
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1821 - Clara Barton was born |
1898 - The element radium was discovered by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre |
1822 - Louis Pasteur was born |
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1869 - Henri Matisse was born |
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