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2009
Compiled
by Donnette E Davis
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January
Month
Long Holidays & Events
Daily
Holidays & Events
1
2
·
National
Science Fiction Day
·
Georgia
Ratification Day (1788)
·
Moon First
Photographed (1839)
3
·
J.R.R.
Tolkien's Birthday (1892)
4
·
National Trivia Day
·
Jakob
Grimm's Birthday (1785)
·
Louis
Braille's Birthday (1809)
·
Utah Admission Day (1896)
5
· Captain John Smith Captured by Indians
Educator’s Calendar – January 2009
6
·
Telegraph First
Demonstrated (1838)
7
·
Jupiter's Moons
Discovered by Galileo (1610)
8
·
Last Battle of War of 1812 (1815)
9
·
National
Static Electricity Day
·
Connecticut
Ratification Day (1788)
10
11
12
·
John Hancock's
Birthday (1737)
·
13
Educator’s Calendar – January 2009
14
15
·
Hat Day
16
17
18
19
20
·
Reagan Became Oldest
President (1981)
21
· First Atomic Submarine Launched (1954)
22
·
National Popcorn Day
· 500 Russians Killed on "Bloody Sunday" (1905)
·
Abortion Legalized
in Roe v. Wade (1973)
Educator’s
Calendar – January 2009
23
24
·
Just Do It Day
·
Earthquake Killed 830,000 in
·
First Female Physician in the
·
Edith Wharton's Birthday (1862)
·
Thurgood
Marshall Died (1993)
25
·
First Winter Olympics
(1924)
· First Transcontinental Phone Call (1915)
26
·
Chinese New Year
·
Michigan Admission
Day (1837)
·
Earthquake in
27
·
Mozart's Birthday (1756)
·
Lewis Carroll's Birthday (1832)
·
Auschwitz
Concentration Camp Liberated (1945)
·
Vietnam War
Peace Accords Signed (1973)
28
·
Jackson
Pollock's Birthday (1912)
·
First Jewish Associate Justice Appointed to Supreme Court (1916)
·
Challenger Shuttle Exploded (1986)
29
·
Seeing Eye, Inc.
founded (1929)
· Poe's "The Raven" Published (1845)
·
Robert Frost Died (1963)
Educator’s
Calendar – January 2009
30
·
Adolf Hitler
Named German Chancellor (1933)
31
·
Jackie Robinson's Birthday
(1919)
· Thirteenth Amendment Abolished Slavery (1865)
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February
Month
Long Holidays & Events
Daily
Holidays & Events
1
·
Robinson Crusoe Day (1708)
·
National Freedom Day (
· Super Bowl Sunday
2
·
Signing of the 15th Amendment(1868)
·
Groundhog Day
·
Mexican War Ended (1848)
3
·
Johann Gutenberg Died (1468)
·
15th Amendment Signed (1868)
4
·
National Girls & Women in Sports Day
·
First
U.S. Presidential Election (1789)
·
Confederacy Formed (1861)
·
Rosa Parks's Birthday (1913)
5
·
National Weatherperson's Day
·
Hank Aaron's Birthday (1934)
Educator’s
Calendar – February 2009
6
·
·
Babe Ruth's Birthday (1895)
·
100 Billionth Crayola®
Crayon Produced (1996)
7
·
Love Your Robot Day
·
Charles
Dickens's Birthday (1812)
·
Tattooing Machine Introduced (1875)
8
·
Boy Scouts of
·
Jules Verne's Birthday (1828)
·
Russo-Japanese War Began (1904)
9
·
Toothache Day
·
National Weather Service Established (1870)
·
Hershey's®
Chocolate Founded (1894)
10
·
Umbrella Day
·
Treaty of
11
·
Steamboat Patented (1809)
·
Thomas Edison's Birthday (1847)
·
First Weekly Weather Report (1878)
12
·
Abraham
Lincoln's Birthday (1809)
·
Charles Darwin's Birthday (1809)
·
NAACP Founded (1909)
· National Lost Penny Day
13
·
Educator’s
Calendar – February 2009
14
·
·
Ferris Wheel Day (1859)
15
·
Susan B. Anthony Day
·
Galileo Galilei's Birthday (1564)
·
Muhammad Ali Lost Boxing Title (1978)
16
·
King Tutankhamen's Tomb Opened (1923)
·
Nylon Patented (1937)
·
Fidel Castro Became Leader of
·
Who Shall I Be? Day
17
· National PTA Founders Day
18
·
Pluto Discovery (1930)
· The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Published (1885)
19
·
Nicolaus Copernicus's Birthday (1473)
·
Phonograph Patented (1878)
20
·
"Batman & Robin" Debuted
(1944)
·
21
·
National Sticky Bun Day
·
First Phone Book Issued (1878)
·
Malcolm X Assassinated (1965)
·
First
Educator’s
Calendar – February 2009
22
·
George Washington's Birthday (1732)
·
·
Woolworth
Opened the First "Five Cent Store" (1879)
23
·
First Animal Cloning (1997)
·
The Tootsie Roll Debuted (1896)
24
·
Wilhelm
Carl Grimm's Birthday (1786)
·
Shrove
Tuesday (Pancake Day)
25
·
First African-American Elected to
·
26
·
Levi Strauss's Birthday (1829)
27
·
Polar Bear Day
·
15th
Recorded Passage of Halley's Comet (837)
·
Henry
28
·
DNA Discovered (1953)
·
Computer Core Memory Patented (1956)
·
Congress Authorised Lewis and
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March
Month
Long Holidays & Events
Daily
Holidays & Events
1
·
National Pig Day
·
First Census Authorized (1790)
·
Silly Putty® Debuts (1950)
World
Books Day
·
3
·
Star-Spangled
Banner Became Nat'l Anthem (1931)
4
·
U.S.
Constitution became effective Effect (1789)
·
World Maths Day http://www.worldmathsday.com/
5
·
Stop the Clocks Day
6
·
Michelangelo
Buonarroti's Birthday (1475)
·
"Cyclops"
Disappeared in Bermuda Triangle (1918)
Educator’s
Calendar – March 2009
7
·
Hitler
Broke Treaty of Versailles (1936)
·
Civil Rights
Protest Dubbed "Bloody Sunday" (1965)
·
Apple Patented the
iPod (2006)
·
Monopoly Invented (1933)
8
·
Daylight
Savings Time Begins
·
Farmer’s Day
9
·
Jumbo Arrived in
10
·
Harriet Tubman Day
·
Invention of Telephone (1876)
11
·
U.S. Blizzard
Killed Over 400 (1888)
12
·
Ballet Tutu First Used (1832)
·
Jack Kerouac's
Birthday (1922)
·
Truman
Doctrine Enacted (1947)
·
Girl Scouts Birthday (1912)
13
14
·
Eli
Whitney Patented Cotton Gin (1793)
·
Albert Einstein's Birthday (1879)
Educator’s
Calendar – March 2009
15
·
Julius
Caesar Murdered - "Ides of March" (44 BC)
·
First Blood Bank Opened (1937)
·
Pi
Day
16
·
James
Madison's Birthday (1751)
·
Barnum & Bailey Circus Debuted (1919)
17
·
St. Patrick's Day
& Ireland Day
18
·
·
Tri-State
Tornado Killed 700 (1925)
19
·
Swallows Return to Capistrano
·
Academy Awards First Televised (1953)
·
20
·
National Agriculture Day
21
·
International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination
·
Johann Bach's Birthday (1685)
22
·
Hale-Bopp
Comet Approached Earth (1997)
23
·
Ponce de Leon Sights and names
·
Lewis & Clark Began Expedition (1806)
24
·
Harry Houdini's
Birthday (1874)
25
·
Meteorite
Explodes in Wisconsin (1865)
26
·
Robert Frost's Birthday (1874)
·
Tennessee
Williams's Birthday (1911)
27
·
Cale Yarborough's Birthday
(1939)
·
Two-Plane Runway Collision on
28
·
First Washing Machine Patented (1930)
·
Spanish Civil
War Ended (1939)
29
·
Ice Jam Stopped
·
Coca-Cola Invented (1886)
·
·
Last
30
·
Vincent
Van Gogh's Birthday (1853)
·
Treaty to Purchase
Alaska Submitted (1867)
·
Pencil Patented (1858)
International
Doctors' Day
31
·
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April
Month
Long Holidays & Events
·
World Habitat Awareness Month
·
National Autism Awareness
·
Zoo & Aquarium Month
Daily Holidays &
Events
1
April
Fool's Day
Cigarette
Ads Banned from Radio & TV (1970)
2
International
Children's Book Day
Ponce de
Leon Landed in
Philadelphia Mint
Authorized (1792)
Hans
Christian Andersen's Birthday (1805)
3
First Pony
Express Service (1860)
Jane
Goodall's Birthday (1934)
4
Martin L.
King Jr. Assassinated (1968)
5
Pocahontas
Married John Rolfe (1614)
Booker
T. Washington's Birthday (1856)
Helen Keller
First Learned Sign Language (1887)
6
First Modern
Olympics (1896)
North Pole First Reached
(1909)
7
U.N. World Health Day
Oleomargarine Patented (1873)
8
17th Amendment Ratified
(1913)
9
National
D.A.R.E. Day
First
Full-Color Film Shown (1914)
10
Joseph Pulitzer's Birthday (1847)
11
1968 Civil Rights Act
Signed (1968)
Persian Gulf War
Cease-Fire (1991)
Dandelion Day
12
Easter
Civil War
Began (1861)
Apr.
12-19 - Nat'l Library Week
13
Thomas
Jefferson's Birthday (1743)
14
Moment of
Laughter Day
Webster's
First Dictionary Copyrighted (1828)
Abraham
Lincoln Assassinated (1865)
The Titanic Hit Iceberg (1912)
Pan American Day
15
Jackie Robinson
Day
Leonardo da Vinci's
Birthday (1452)
First McDonald's Opens (1955)
16
Wilbur
Wright's Birthday (1867)
17
Ben Franklin
Died (1790)
18
First Game
Played in Yankee Stadium
(1923)
19
American Revolution
Began (1775)
Apr.
19-26 - Nat
Volunteer Week
20
First Game
Played at Fenway Park
(1912)
Columbine High School
Shooting Killed 15 (1999)
National Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day
Apr.
20-27 - Nat'l
Playground Safety Week
TV-Turnoff
Week
21
Kindergarten Day
22
Nat'l Jelly
Bean Day
First
Earth Day Observed (1970)
23
Take Our Daughters
& Sons to Work Day
24
Library of Congress
Established (1800)
Mailbox Inventor Born (1815)
25
First Use of
Name "America" (1507)
First
License Plates Required (1901)
Ella Fitzgerald's
Birthday (1917)
Cuckoo Day
26
John Wilkes Booth
Killed (1865)
27
Coretta
Scott King's Birthday (1927)
Administrative Professionals Day
Freedom Day South Africa
28
Arbour Day
29
Zipper
Patented (1842)
30
Vietnam War
Ended (1975)
Cyclone
Killed 131,000 in
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May
Month
Long Holidays & Events
Daily
Holidays & Events
1
Sudoku First Published as
May Day
2
Holocaust
Remembrance Day
Leonardo da Vinci Died (1579) Download
the Bio in PDF
Soviet Union
Announced Fall of
Nelson
Mandela Elected President of South Africa (1994)
3
Whale Awareness Day (in
National Scrapbooking Day (
World Press Freedom Day
May 3-10
4
5
Cinco
de Mayo (
First American in Space (1961)
Elizabeth
Jane Cochran's, Known as Nellie Bly, Birthday 1864
Cartoonist Day
6
Robert Peary's
Birthday (1856) Download
Bio in PDF (with notepages)
Sigmund Freud's Birthday (1856) Download Bio
in PDF (with notepages)
Hindenburg Disaster (1937)
7
Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony Premiere 1824 Download Bio in
PDF (with notepages)
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Birthday (1840) Download Bio in
PDF (with notepages)
American
Medical Association Formed (1847)
Lusitania Sunk (1915)
Germany Surrendered to Allies (1945)
8
9
National
Bake Sale Day
John Brown's Birthday (1800) Download Bio in
PDF format
10
Central and Union Pacific Railroads Meet 1869
Giant Squid
Attack (1847)
May 10-17
National Police Week
11
May 11-18
National
Transportation Week
12
Start of California
Gold Rush 1848
International Migratory Bird Day
National Windmill Day (
Edward Lear's Birthday (Celebrated as
13
Tulip Day
"When the Saints Go Marching In" Recorded (1938)
14
First permanent British colony Established in
Lewis and
First
Olympic Games Held in
First
15
L.
Discovery of Largest Prime Number Known to Man
Frank
Baum's Birthday 1856 – Download the Scarecrow of oz
16
Armed Forces
Day
Biographers
Day
First U.S. Nickel Minted (1866)
17
New York Stock
Exchange Established (1792)
18
Karol Wojtyla Birthday (Pope John Paul II) 1920
Mount
St. Helens Erupted (1980)
May 18-25
Nat Backyard Games Week
19
Lawrence
of Arabia Died (1935)
Circus Day, Anniversary of First Ringling Brothers
Performance 1884
Frog Jump Day
20
20-21
Charles Lindbergh Flies Historic Solo Nonstop Transatlantic Flight 1927
Christopher
Columbus Died (1506)
Dolley Madison's Birthday
(1768)
Weights and Measures Day
Good Neighbour Day
21
American Red Cross
Established (1881)
Amelia Earhart Flew Solo Across the
22
Buy a
Musical Instrument Day
Earthquake
in
Most
Powerful Earthquake of the 20th Century Struck
23
World Turtle Day
International Jazz Day
Wright
Brothers Patented the Aircraft (1906)
24
First Telegraph Message
Transmitted (1844)
Brooklyn Bridge Opened
(1883)
25
Fork Debuted
in
Babe Ruth Hit
714th Home Run (1935) Download PDF
Jesse Owens Broke Three World Records (1935)
Amnesty International Day
26
Dorothea
Lange's Birthday (1895)
Sally Ride's Birthday (1951)
27
First Recorded Witch Execution
(1647)
Rachel Carson's Birthday (1907)
Golden Gate Bridge Opened (1937)
Cellophane Tape Patented 1930
28
Jim Thorpe's
Birthday (1888)
Linda Finch Completed Earhart's Flight Around the World
(1997)
29
Hillary
and Tenzing Reached Mt. Everest
John F. Kennedy's Birthday 1917 Download PDF
30
Earthquake in Afghanistan Killed 5,000 (1998)
First Daily American Newspaper Published 1783
Walt Whitman's
Birthday 1819 Download Bio of Walt
Whitman PDF
31
First
Earthquake in
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Homeschool
June
Month
Long Holidays & Events
Daily holidays & Events
1
Stand for Children Day
– Kentucky and
– Helen Keller Died (1968)
-
2
Radio Patented (1896)
– National Trails Day
- National Rocky Road Ice Cream Day
American
Indians Granted
3
First
- Repeat Day
4
Cheese Day
– First Supermarket Carts (1937)
– Aesop's
Day
- Hug your cat day
5
U.N.
World Environment Day
– First Hot-Air Balloon Flight
(1783)
U.N. World
Environment Day
Robert F.
Kennedy Assassinated (1968)
First AIDS Report
Published (1981)
6
National Hunger Awareness Day
First Drive-In Movie Theatre (1933)
National Yo-Yo Day - Birthday of yo-yo
manufacturer Donald F. Duncan.
7
VCR Introduced (1975)
8
World Oceans Day
Frank Lloyd Wright's Birthday
Prophet
Muhammad Died (632)
Andrew
Jackson Died (1845)
Satchel
Paige Died (1983)
9
Donald Duck's Birthday (1934)
Hong Kong
Leased to
10
Ballpoint Pen Patented (1943)
Alcoholics
Anonymous Founded (1935)
11
Jacques Cousteau's Birthday (1910)
– Kamehameha Day (
12
Anne Frank's Birthday (1929)
Diary Day
Red Rose Day
Magic Day
George H.
W. Bush's Birthday (1924)
Civil Rights
Leader Medgar Evers Killed (1963)
13
National Juggling Day
William
14
Flag
Day
Army Day
Pop Goes the Weasel Day
National
Children's Day
Official
U.S. Flag Adopted (1777)
First
Commercial Computer Introduced (1951)
15
Celluloid Discovered (1869)
Power of a Smile Day
Fly a Kite Day
16
Valentina Tereshkova Becomes First Woman in Space
- Youth
Day (South Africa)
- National Fudge Day
17
M.C. Escher's Birthday (1898)
Eat Your Veggies Day
18
Sally Ride Becomes First Woman on Space Shuttle
Go Fishing Day
International Picnic Day
Napoleon
Defeated at
19
First Official Game of Baseball (1846)
Juneteenth (Liberation of Slaves) (1865)
20
Summer begins (Solstice) (N Hemisphere)
Winter begins (S Hemisphere)
Bald Eagle Day
Ice Cream Soda Day
21
Father's
Day
22
Pledge of Allegiance Recognised by Congress
(1942)
Fred
Astaire Died (1987)
23
First Typewriter Patented (1868)
United Nations Public Service Day
National Pink Day
24
U.F.O. Day (1947)
25
First Colour
TV Broadcast (1951)
– Eric Carle's
Birthday (1929)
- Log Cabin Day
Gen.
Custer Died at Little Bighorn (1876)
George
Orwell's Birthday (1903)
26
The
Signing of the United Nations Charter (1945)
– Inventor of the Thermometer
Born (1824)
- National Chocolate Pudding Day
Bicycle
Patented (1819)
27
Happy
Birthday to "Happy Birthday to You" (1859)
– Helen Keller's Birthday (1880)
28
Paul Bunyan Day
World War
I Began (1914)
29
Remote
Control Introduced (1964)
Shakespeare's Theatre Destroyed by Fire (1613)
Camera Day
30
Meteor Day
Superman's Birthday
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to St Aiden’s Homeschool
July
Month
Long Holidays & Events
Blueberries Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Recreation and Parks Month
National Tennis Month
Read an Almanac Month
Daily
Holidays And Events
1
First
Build
A Scarecrow Day
Battle of
2
Civil
Rights Act of 1964
Halfway Point of the Year
Amelia Earhart Disappeared (1937)
3
Stay Out of the Sun Day
Compliment Your Mirror Day
Fry An Egg on a Sidewalk Day!
Did you ever hear the expression, "It's so hot outside
you could fry an egg
on the sidewalk." Is that really true? Use these directions and see if it works.
4
USA Independence Day
~ Activities
Statue of
Liberty Presented (1884)
5
Republican
Day (Republican Party Formed - 1854)
Fire at Ringling Brothers Circus Killed 160 (1944)
7
Pinocchio
First Printed (1883)~ Activities
Cherry
Pit Spitting Day ~ Activities
8
First Public
Reading of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
9
Nat Sugar Cookie Day
10
Teddy
Bear Picnic Day
Don't Step on a Bee Day
11
World
Population Day ~
Patricia Polacco's Birthday (1944)
12
Etch-a-Sketch
Introduced (1960)
–
Battle of the Boyne Day (Ireland)
13
Cow
Appreciation Day
Puzzle
Day
14
15
Howard Hughes
Set New Speed Record (1938)
World's
Tallest Man (8' 11.1") Died (1940)
First
International Manned Spaceflight (1975)
16
Russian Czar Executed (1918)
Umi No Hi (Marine Day,
National
Farm Safety Week, Australia
17
National
Ice Cream Day
Nelson
Mandela's Birthday
19
First
East to West Rowing of the
20
First
Moon Landing (1969) Moon Day
First Special Olympics (1968)
21
Monkey
Day
New Hampshire Admission Day
Ernest
Hemingway's Birthday (1899)
22
Pied
Piper Arrived in Hamelin (1264)
23
Pneumatic
Tyre Invented (1888)
National
Hot Dog Day (
24
Amelia
Earhart's Birthday (1897)
25
Thread
the Needle Day
26
Parents
Day
27
Korean
War Veterans' Armistice Day
Happy Birthday Bugs Bunny
28
Beatrix
Potter's Birthday (1866)
29
NASA Established
(1958)
Prince
Charles Married Lady Diana Spencer (1981)
30
Emily
Bronte's Birthday (1818)
31
J.K.
Rowling's Birthday (1965) (Harry Potter Activities)
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Homeschool
August
Month
Long Holidays & Events
Back to School Month
Women's Month (
Family
Fun Month
Inventor's Month
Happiness Happens Month
Get
Ready for Kindergarten Month
Kid's Vision and Learning Month
Daily
Holidays & Events
1
World
Wide Web Anniversary
Photo Flashbulb Invented (1930)
National Raspberry Cream Pie Day
2
Signing
of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
National Ice Cream Sandwich Day (
3
Christopher
Columbus Set Sail (1492)
Watermelon Day
4
Gestapo
Arrest Anne Frank (1944)
Chocolate Chip Day
5
Neil
Armstrong's Birthday (1930)
Friendship
Day
Mustard Day - This special day was created by the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum in
6
National
Kids Day
Wiggle
Your Toes Day
Alfred
Tennyson's Birthday (1809)
Alexander
Fleming's Birthday (1881)
Hiroshima Day Atomic Bomb Dropped on
7
First
Pictures of Earth Taken from Space (1959)
Lighthouse
Day
8
National Waffle
Day
First Canadian Turtle
9
President
Richard Nixon Resigned (1974)
National
Women's Day (S Africa)
International
Art Appreciation Day