Bookish Calendar
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Day of the Dead (Mexico)
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1775 – Marie Antoinette, last queen of France, was born
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1734 – Daniel Boone, American frontiersman, was born
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1922 – The entrance to King Tut’s tomb was discovered by Howard Carter.
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Election Day (USA) |
1867 – Marie Curie, the scientist who discovered radium, was born. |
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1975 – The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior
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Remembrance Day/ Veteran’s Day/ Armistice Day (Canada/USA/UK) |
1815 – Suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was born. |
1889 – Nellie Bly began her amazing journey around the world 1840 – Claude Monet, French painter, was born |
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1887 – Georgia O’Keeffe, American painter, was born |
1805 – The Lewis and Clark expedition reached the Pacific Ocean
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1869 – The Suez Canal was opened |
1902 – The anniversary of the creation of the first ‘Teddy” bear. |
1863 – American president Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address | ||
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1744- Abigail Adams was born 1718 – The pirate Blackbeard was killed
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1835 – Andrew Carnegie was born
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1883 – Sojourner Truth died.
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1874 – Winston Churchill was born 1835 – Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was born. |
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December 2019 |
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1955 – Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus |
1859 – The birthday of painter Georges Seurat
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1872 – The Mary Celeste was found with all her passengers missing |
1784 – Poet Phillis Wheatley died |
1896 – The birthday of Ira Gershwin, composer and musician. |
1941 – Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese
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1626 – Queen Kristina of Sweden was born. 1542 – Mary Queen of Scots was born 1765 – Inventor Eli Whitney was born
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1830 – Poet Emily Dickinson was born |
1911 – Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole |
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1890 – Chief Sitting Bull died.
1832 – Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, master engineer, was born |
1770 – Ludwig Van Beethoven was born 1485 – Catherine of Aragon, future Queen of England, was born. 1773 – The Boston Tea Party took place
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1903 – Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight in a flying machine. |
1630 – The Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts The first day of Winter |
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The beginning of Hannukah |
1867 – Madame Sarah Breedlove Walker was born 1823 – Clement C. Moore’s A Visit from St. Nicholas was first published. |
1821 – Clara Barton was born |
1898 – The element radium was discovered by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre |
1822 – Louis Pasteur was born |
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1869 – Henri Matisse was born |
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