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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
1
MTV Debuted In
1981
Respect for Parents’
Day
Sport’s Day
2
Holling C. Holling
First Income Tax
First Lincoln Penny
Issued In 1909
8
9
The US dollar was
created in 1786
Thomas Edison re-
ceived mimeograph
patent , 1876
Betty Boop Created,
1930
Smokey Bear’s Birth-
day (1944)
15
16
National Relaxation
Day
Transcontinental
Railroad complet-
ed, 1869
22
Be An Angel Day
Ann Franklin’s Birth-
day (1762) First
female newspaper
editor
29
First Scout Camp
Opened, 1934
Michael Jackson
born, 1958
National Tell a Joke
Day
Roller Coaster Day
23
First Photograph
of Earth From the
Moon Taken, 1966.
30
Thurgood Marshall
took a seat on the
Supreme Court,
1967
FRIDAY
3
4
5
Columbus Set Sail
on his 1st Voyage,
1492
National Watermelon
Day
Coast Guard Day
(Established- 1790)
Barack Obama born,
1961 (44th U.S.
President)
Neil Armstrong born
in Ohio in 1930
Robert Bright born,
1902
10
11
12
Hulk Hogan Born in
1953
Play in the Sand Day
IBM PC Announced
in 1981
Middle Children’s Day
Hawaii Annexed to
the U.S. (1898)
18
19
Herbert Hoover
Born in 1874, in
West Branch, Iowa
17
Myra Cohn Living-
ston born, 1926
Davy Crockett born,
1786
24
International Strange
Music Day
In 1932, Amelia
Earhart flew across
the U.S
31
National Trail Mix
Day
Educator Maria
Montessori’s birth-
day, 1870
Louis Fatio born,
1904
Bad Poetry Day
Wizard of Oz Pre-
miered, 1939
25
Kiss and Make Up
Day
National Park Ser-
vice Established,
1916
National Aviation
Day
Orville Wright born,
1871
Potato Day
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
6
7
National Mustard
Day
Wiggle Your Toes
Day
13
International Left-
Hander’s Day
Fall of the Aztec
Empire, 1512
20
International Home-
less Animals Day
National Radio Day
American Family
Day
Betsy Byars born,
1928
Sea Serpent Day
14
Alice Provensen
born, 1917
Japan Surrendered
in World War II,
1945
21
Wilt Chamberlain
Born in 1936 in
Philadelphia, PA.
First Lincoln-Doug-
las Debate, 1858
26
27
28
Women’s Equality
Day--women get the
right to vote; sign-
ing of 19th Amend-
ment, 1920
Mother Teresa Born,
1910
Dream Day --MLK
Jr. gave ‘I Have
a Dream’ speech,
1963