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Black History Month begins

National Freedom Day (U.S.) 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery was approved 1865

Poet Langston Hughes born 1902

Novelist Ayn Rand born 1905

First woman physician Elizabeth Blackwell born 1821

Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks born 1913

Aviator Charles Lindbergh born 1902

Baseball player Hank Aaron born 1934

Singer Bob Marley born 1945

Baseball player Babe Ruth born 1895

Essentially Ellington Essay Contest - Essays due today!

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass born 1817

Children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder born 1867

Novelist Charles Dickens born 1812

Science fiction author Jules Verne born 1828

Arthur Ashe became the first black player on the US Davis Cup tennis team 1964

Opera singer Leontyne Price born 1927

Novelist and poet Boris Pasternak born 1890

Inventor Thomas Alva Edison born 1847

ThinkQuest Narrative Competition 2009 ~ Deadline for entries May 4, 2009.

Naturalist Charles Darwin born 1809

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln born 1809

Lincoln Bicentennial

Pilot who broke the sound barrier Chuck Yeager born 1923

Inventor Margaret E. Knight born 1838

Happy Valentine's Day

Women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony born 1820

Physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei born 1564

Explorer Ernest Shackleton born 1874

Educator and President of Argentina Domingo F. Sarmiento born 1811

Social worker Irena Sendler born 1910.

Track Olympic Medalist Cathy Freeman born 1973

Basketball player Michael Jordan born 1963

Novelist Toni Morrison born 1931

Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus born 1473

USSR launched the Mir space station into Earth orbit 1986

Photographer Ansel Adams born 1902

John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit Earth 1962

Classical guitarist Andres Segovia born 1893

First U.S. President George Washington born 1732

Composer Frédéric Chopin born 1810

Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay born 1892

Educator and black activist W.E.B. DuBois born 1868

Composer George Frederick Handel born 1685

Johannes Gutenberg, German inventor of the printing press, printed the first book (the Bible) 1455

Co-author of Grimm's Fairy Tales Wilhelm Karl Grimm born 1786

Painter Winslow Homer born 1836

Baseball player Honus Wagner born 1874

Painter Pierre-August Renoir born 1841

Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named first US poet laureate 1984

Author Victor Hugo born 1802

Opera singer Marian Anderson born 1897

Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born 1807

Humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi born 1928

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