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C alendar
September 2016
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
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20
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22
International Talk
Like a Pirate Day
Poet John Keats
Wrote ‘To Autumn’
in 1819
26
Johnny Appleseed
born John
Chapman, in 1774
First Railroad
Station Opened
Magellan started his
search for the Spice
Islands In 1519
World Gratitude Day
International Peace
Day
H.G. Wells born,
1866
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28
Crush A Can Day
First Steam
Locomotive Run
(1825)
First Airport Opened
(1909)
William the
Conqueror Invaded
England, 1066
R
First Day of Autumn
Elephant
Appreciation Day
U.S. Post Office
Opened In 1789
FRIDAY SATURDAY
23
24
California Native
American Day
Nintendo founded
in 1889 - made
playing cards
29
The U.S. Army was
established in 1789
First Toy Store Opened
National Bluebird of
Happiness Day
Supreme Court
established, 1789
SUNDAY
25
Good Neighbor Day
(4th Sunday)
Mary Poppins
Debuted in 1964
30
Edgar d’Aulaire
born, 1898
Safety Pin Invented
(1849)
1
Homemade Cookies
Day
World Vegetarian
Day
October 2016
3
World Habitat Day
Child Health Day
SOS Established in
1906
10
Columbus Day
Thanksgiving Day
in Canada
James Marshall
born, 1942
17
Black Poetry Day
San Francisco
Earthquake (1989)
4
Donald Sobol born,
1924
Sputnik I Launched
in 1957 (first space
vehicle)
5
World Teacher Day
Gene Zion born,
1913
11
Eleanor Roosevelt
born, 1884
First Steam-Powered
Ferryboat began
operations, 1811
18
Mason-Dixon Line
Established (1767)
Puerto Rico Became
U.S. Colony, 1898
12
Farmer’s Day
Dia de la Raza
(Mexico)
6
1st Motion
Picture, 1889,
Thomas Jefferson
American Library
Association
Founded (1876)
13
National Poetry Day
(England)
Margaret Thatcher
born in 1925
19
Thomas Edison
Electric Light, 1879
Final Revolutionary
War battle (1781)
20
Sir James Chadwick
(Discoverer of the
Neutron) born,
1891
7
National Denim Day
Rose designated as
the U.S. National
Flower (1986)
14
Dwight D
Eisenhower (34th
President) born,
1890
21
Guggenheim
Museum Opens
(1959)
2
International Day
of Non-Violence,
birthday of
Mohandas Ghandi
8
J. Frank Duryea
born in 1869
The Great Chicago
Fire started (1871)
15
Sweetest Day
National Grouch
Day
22
National Nut Day
9
First 2-way phone
Conversation, 1876
Leif Ericson Day
Moldy Cheese Day
16
Dictionary Day
World Food Day
23
Mother-in-Law’s
Day
iPod First Revealed
(2001)