Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews
September 2018 |
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1939 - Germany invades Poland and WWII begins
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1666- The Great Fire of London began
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1838 - Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom 1783 - The Treaty of Paris was signed - The American Revolution ended Labor Day (USA and Canada)
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1847 - Wild west legend, Jesse James, was born.
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1860 - Jane Adams, famous peace activist, was born 1757 - French general and aristocrat, the Marquis de Lafayette, was born |
1533 - Elizabeth I, Queen of England, was born
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1900 - Galveston Texas was hit by a powerful hurricane
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1845 - The anniversary of the beginning of the Irish potato famine |
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1913 - Jesse Owens, the African American athlete, was born |
1916 - Children’s book author, Roald Dahl, was born 1819 - The pianist and composer, Clara Schumann, was born |
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| Battle of Britain Day | Mayflower Day |
1787 - The Anniversary of the U.S. Constitution 1883 - The poet William Carlos Williams is born |
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1862 - The anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
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1957 - The anniversary of the day when the “Little Rock Nine” had their first real day of school The first Day of autumn in the Northern hemisphere
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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 |
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October 2018 |
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1869 - Mahatma Gandhi was born |
1188 - The birthday of Saint Francis of Assisi |
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1871 - The Great fire of Chicago broke out. |
Leif Erikson Day |
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 | 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. 1833 - The Birthday of Alfred Nobel |
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| 1881 - The birthday of Pablo Picasso |
1825 - The Erie Canal was opened
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1858 - The birthday of Theodore Roosevelt 1728 - The birthday of Captain James Cook
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1886 - The Statue of Liberty was dedicated 1914 - The birthday of Jonas Salk |
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1929 - The Stock Market collapsed 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh died |
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