The Bookish Calendar
Every month TTLG creates a calendar of “bookish” features and reviews. The books reviewed for the calendar include biographies, titles describing events of historical interest, and holidays titles.
July and August 2008
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1863 - The Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg |
1908 - Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice, was born |
1964 - Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act |
1971 - Koko, the famous signing gorilla, was born 1804 - Writer Nathaniel Hawthorne was born |
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1906 - The birthday of Robert (Satchel) Leroy Paige
1887 - The birthday of painter Marc Chagall |
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1830 - The birthday of Camille Pissarro |
1767 - The birthday of John Quincy Adams |
The birthday of Henry David Thoreau 1854 - George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak Camera, was born |
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1606 - The birthday of Rembrandt van Rijn |
1872 - The birthday of Roald Amundsen 1862 - Ida B. Wells was born |
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1834 - Edgar Degas was born 1921 - Astronaut John Glenn was born |
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1969 - Man landed on the moon for the first time |
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1897 - Amelia Earhart was born |
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1796 - Painter George Gatlin was born. |
1953 - The Korean War came to an end |
1914 - WWI began due to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria- Hungary |
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1863 - Henry Ford was born |
1965 - J. K Rowling creator of Harry Potter, was born |
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1770 - Explorer William Clark was born 1818 - Maria Mitchell, astronomer, was born |
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1492 - Christopher Columbus sailed for the new World |
1900 - Louis Armstrong, musician, was born |
1930 - Astronaut Neil Alden Armstrong, , was born |
1881 - Sir Alexander Fleming, scientist, was born
1945 - The first Atomic bomb to be used against human targets was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan |
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1866 - Matthew Henson, polar explorer, was born |
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1860 - Annie Oakley, sharp shooter, was born 1818 - Women’s rights activist, Lucy Stone, was born
1896 - Gold was discovered in Yukon |
1945 - Victory Over Japan |
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1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, general and emperor, was born |
1888 - T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) was born |
1786 - David “Davy” Crocket, frontier’s man was born
1863 - Fort Sumpter was fired upon. The first shot of the American Civil War |
1774 - Explorer, Meriwether Lewis, was born 1920 - Women in American were finally given the vote |
1906 - Philo Farnsworth, inventor, was born |
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A.D. 79 - Mount Vesuvius erupted destroying the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum |
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1883 - The volcano of Krakatoa erupted
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1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I have a dream...” speech in Washington D.C. |
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1797 - Author Mary Shelley was born
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