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Explorer William Clark born 1770
Novelist Herman Melville born 1819
Astronomer Maria Mitchell born 1818
2009 CNN Hero nominations deadline today.
 
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Author James Baldwin born 1924
International Forgiveness Day
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National Kids Day
MY HERO Short Film Festival entry deadline extended to September 1st
First woman rabbi Regina Jonas born 1902.
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Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong born 1901
Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley born 1792
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Astronaut Neil Armstrong born 1930
Architect Raoul Wallenberg born 1912
Historian and feminist Mary Ritter Beard born 1876
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Discoverer of penicillin Sir Alexander Fleming born 1881
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Champion marathon runner Alberto Salazar born 1957
Anthropologist Louis Leakey born 1903
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International Day of the World's Indigenous People
Arctic explorer Matthew Henson born 1866
 
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Psychologist Jean Piaget born 1896
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Congress establishes the Smithsonian Institution in 1846
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Ballerina Allegra Kent born 1937
MY HERO Short Film Festival entry deadline extended to September 1st
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UN International Youth Day
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Women's rights activist Lucy Stone born 1818
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Cartoonist Gary Larson born 1950
Novelist and dramatist John Galsworthy born 1867
Basketball star/philanthropist Earvin "Magic" Johnson born 1959
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French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte born 1769
India Independence Day
Poet Sir Walter Scott born 1771
 
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Archaeologist and writer T. E. Lawrence born 1888
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Frontiersman Davy Crockett born 1786
Film pioneer Samuel Goldwyn born 1882
Former First Lady/Philanthropist Rosalynn Carter born 1927
MY HERO SHORT FILM FESTIVAL call for entries
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19th Ammendment ratified giving women right to vote, 1920
Explorer Meriwether Lewis born 1774
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Pioneer aviator Orville Wright born 1871
Humorous poet Ogden Nash born 1902
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Basketball player Wilt Chamberlain born 1936
MY HERO Short Film Festival entry deadline extended to September 1st
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Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury born 1920
Composer Claude Debussy born 1862
Astronomer, physicist and aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley born 1834
Military leader H. Norman Schwarzkopf born 1934
 
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Poet and author Edgar Lee Masters born 1869
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Short-story writer, poet and essayist Jorge Luis Borges born 1900
Hawaiian "Father of Surfing" Duke Kahanamoku born 1890.
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Journalist and poet Bret Harte born 1836
25 August 1609 Galileo conducted the first astronomical outreach activity when he met with policy and law-makers from the Venetian Republic. He ushered them into the bell tower of St. Mark's Square, and presented them with a telescope design which he himself had improved.
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Polio vaccine developer Albert Sabin born 1906
Inventor Lee De Forest born 1973
Women's Equality Day commemorates women's right to vote
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Mother Teresa born 1910
Philosopher Georg W. F. Hegel born 1770
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Martin Luther King Jr. delivered "I Have a Dream Speech" in 1963
Educator and first American-born saint Elizabeth Ann Seton born 1774
Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born 1749
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Philosopher John Locke born 1632
Jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker born 1920
 
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Neoclassicist Painter Jacques-Louis David born 1748
Novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley born 1797
Triathlete/leukemia survivor Louie Bonpua born 1964
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Violinist Itzhak Perlman born 1945
Educator Maria Montessori born 1870
American Civil Rights activist Josephine Ruffin born 1842
 		          
 
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