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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
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Novelist Ayn Rand born 1905
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First woman physician Elizabeth Blackwell born 1821
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Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks born 1913
Aviator Charles Lindbergh born 1902
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Baseball player Hank Aaron born 1934
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Singer Bob Marley born 1945
Baseball player Babe Ruth born 1895
Essentially Ellington Essay Contest - Essays due today!
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Abolitionist Frederick Douglass born 1817
Children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder born 1867
Novelist Charles Dickens born 1812
 
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Science fiction author Jules Verne born 1828
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Arthur Ashe became the first black player on the US Davis Cup tennis team 1964
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Opera singer Leontyne Price born 1927
Novelist and poet Boris Pasternak born 1890
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Inventor Thomas Alva Edison born 1847
ThinkQuest Narrative Competition 2009 ~ Deadline for entries May 4, 2009.
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Naturalist Charles Darwin born 1809
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln born 1809
Lincoln Bicentennial
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Pilot who broke the sound barrier Chuck Yeager born 1923
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Inventor Margaret E. Knight born 1838
Happy Valentine's Day
 
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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.
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Track Olympic Medalist Cathy Freeman born 1973
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Basketball player Michael Jordan born 1963
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Novelist Toni Morrison born 1931
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Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus born 1473
USSR launched the Mir space station into Earth orbit 1986
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Photographer Ansel Adams born 1902
John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit Earth 1962
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Classical guitarist Andres Segovia born 1893
 
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First U.S. President George Washington born 1732
Composer Frédéric Chopin born 1810
Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay born 1892
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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
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Co-author of Grimm's Fairy Tales Wilhelm Karl Grimm born 1786
Painter Winslow Homer born 1836
Baseball player Honus Wagner born 1874
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Painter Pierre-August Renoir born 1841
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Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named first US poet laureate 1984
Author Victor Hugo born 1802
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Opera singer Marian Anderson born 1897
Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born 1807
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Humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi born 1928
 
 
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