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Curriculum Calendar << January 2009 >>
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28 Endangered Species Act of 1973 is passed Also try: Extinction, Whales, Biodiversity	29 The massacre of Wounded Knee takes place in 1890 Also try: 7th Calvary, Lakota, Sioux Indians, Ghost Dance	30 Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galactic systems in 1924 Also try: Galaxies	31 Soviet Union disbands in 1991 Also try: USSR, Iron Curtain New Year's Eve Also try: New Year, Fireworks	1 Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 Also try: Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, Civil War New Year's Day Also try: New Year's Eve, Resolutions Patriot Paul Revere is born in 1735 Also try: Sons of Liberty, Midnight Rider	2 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in 1947 Also try: India, Nonviolence	3 Author J.R.R. Tolkien is born 1892 Also try: Middle Earth, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit
4 Scientist Isaac Newton is born in 1642 Also try: Laws of Motion, Universal Gravitation, Scientific Revolution	5 George Washington Carver Day Also try: African Americans, Peanuts, Inventors	6 Epiphany Also try: Three Kings Day, Magi, Los Reyes Magos	7 President Millard Fillmore is born in 1800 Also try: Presidents, Whig Party, Know Nothing Party	8 Rocker Elvis Presley is born in 1935 Also try: Rock and Roll	9 President Richard Milhous Nixon is born in 1913 Also try: Nixon, Watergate, Foreign Policy	10 League of Nations is formed 1920 Also try: Paris Peace Conference, United Nations
11 Patriot Alexander Hamilton is born in 1755 Also try: Federalism, Secretary of Treasury	12 Patriot John Hancock is born in 1737 Also try: Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence	13 First radio set is advertised in 1906 Also try: Wireless, Broadcasting	14 U.S. ratifies treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War Also try: Treaty of Paris	15 Civil Rights Leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is born in 1929; Martin Luther King Day Also try: Civil Rights, I Have a Dream, Nonviolence	16 Biologist Dian Fossey is born in 1932 Also try: Gorillas, Gorillas in the Mist	17 Inventor and Patriot Benjamin Franklin is born in 1706 Also try: Inventor, Lightning Rod, Electricity
18 Robert Scott reaches the South Pole in 1912 Also try: South Pole, Explorers	19 Author Edgar Allen Poe is born in 1809 Also try: The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, Annabel Lee	20 Inauguration Day Also try: Inaugural Address	21 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced in 1799 Also try: Edward Jenner, Vaccinations, Disease	22 The uranium atom is split at Columbia University in 1939 Also try: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons	23 Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end the Vietnam War in 1973 Also try: Vietnam, Paris Peace Agreement	24 Gold is discovered in California in 1848 Also try: Gold Rush, Sutter's Fort, 49ers
25 Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service in 1915 Also try: Telephone	26 Chinese New Year Also try: Spring Festival, Dim Sum Hockey player Wayne Gretzky is born in 1961 Also try: Winter Sports, Wayne Gretzky, The Great One	27 Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in 1756 Also try: Classical Music, Opera, Symphonies, Requiem	28 Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986 Also try: Space Shuttle, Christa McAuliffe, Teachers in Space	29 Patriot Thomas Paine is born in 1737 Also try: Common Sense, Founding Fathers	30 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born in 1882 Also try: FDR, President Roosevelt, New Deal, World War II, Liberalism	31 Baseball player Jackie Robinson is born in 1919 Also try: Baseball, African Americans, Segregation