February 10, 2016
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Black History Month
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C alendar February 2016
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
1
2
3
4
Freedom Day
Robinson Crusoe Day
First meeting of the
U.S. Supreme Court
(1790)
8
Mardi Gras
Chinese New Year -
Year of the Monkey
Boy Scouts’ Day
Jules Verne born, 1828
15
President’s Day
Susan B. Anthony
born, 1820
22
George Washington
born, 1732
Be Humble Day
World Thinking Day
29
This is a Leap Year
if there is a 29th in
February
Groundhog Day
Bottle Cap Patented
in 1892
Elmo’s Birthday
(Sesame Street
Character)
Vietnam War Ended
(1973)
9
National Weather
Service Est. (1870)
Toothache Day
10
Umbrella Day
Ratiication of the
25th Amendment in
1967 (Presidential
Succession)
16
Nylon Patented By
DuPont in 1937
King Tut’s Burial
Chamber opened in
1923
23
International Dog
Biscuit Apprecia-
tion Day
U.S. Flag raised at
Iwo Jima (1945)
17
Random Acts of
Kindness Day
National P.T.A.
Founder’s Day
(1897)
Facebook First
Launched in 2004
Vacuum Day
Rosa Parks born,
1913
11
Thomas Edison
born, 1847
National Inventors’
Day
18
Pluto, Discovered By
Clyde Tombaugh in
1930
24
25
Steve Jobs born,
1955
Wilhelm Carl Grimm
born, 1786
Quiet Day
Artist Pierre Auguste
Renoir born, 1841
FRIDAY SATURDAY
5
6
Weatherman’s Day
Disaster Day
Hank Aaron born,
1934
12
Abraham Lincoln
born, 1809 (16th
President)
19
Phonograph Pat-
ented By Thomas
Edison in 1878
26
Levi Strauss born,
1829
William F. Cody
born, 1846 (Pony
Express Rider)
SUNDAY
7
Babe Ruth born,
1895
Monopoly Board
Game Goes on Sale
in Stores, 1935
Charles Dickens
born, 1812
Laura Ingalls Wilder
born, 1867
13
14
Get a Different
Name Day
First Public School
established (1635)
20
John Glenn Orbits
Earth in 1962 (in
the Friendship 7
space capsule.
27
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow born,
1807
International Polar
Bear Day
Valentine’s Day
Ferris Wheel Day
21
Malcom X Assassi-
nated (1965)
Washington Mon-
ument dedicated
(1885)
28
Public Sleeping Day
Gold Seekers
arrived in San
Francisco (1849)