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Idea Calendar
So many grand things going on this month! Rally attention and add zest to the curriculum without sacrificing quality educational time. Dive into an activity of seasonal interest and your students (and you) will come up smiling...reconnected, refreshed, and renewed in enthusiasm for learning. Pick up a fresh new idea this month...they'll applaud till the very echo!
Simply click on daily calendar text below to find background information and related activities.
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An American climbs Everest
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Lou Gehrig's streak of 2130 consecutive games ends.
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First Man to Reach the North Pole
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Julia Tyler, First Lady of the United States
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Cinco de Mayo
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The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public.
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Johannes Brahms, German composer
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The Soviet Union announces boycott of 1984 Summer Olympics.
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Harriet Lane, First Lady to her uncle, President James Buchanan
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American Revolutionary War: Fort Ticonderoga captured.
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Worst Dust Bowl storm
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General MacArthur delivers his famous 'Duty, Honor, Country' speech
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Great Comet of 1861 discovered in Australia.
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Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
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Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, First Lady
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Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Watergate Hearings begin in the Senate and are televised.
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Grauman's Chinese Theater
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, First Lady
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Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States
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Charles Lindbergh touchs down in Paris
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Martha Washington, First Lady
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Dedication ceremony for the New York Public Library.
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Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and engineer
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The National Forensics League is founded.
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Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States
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Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter
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The Golden Gate Bridge is officially opened
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Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring premiered in Paris.
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Soldiers are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Walt Whitman, American poet
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