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February 2008

 

 

 

 

 
1

First U.S. Supreme Court Convened (1790)

National Freedom Day

Robinson Crusoe Day

2

Groundhog Day

Mexican War Ended (1848)

3

15th Amendment Signed (1868)

Johann Gutenberg Died (1468)

Super Bowl Sunday

4

Confederacy Formed (1861)

First U.S. Presidential Election (1789)

Rosa Parks's Birthday (1913)

Feb 4 - 8
National School Counseling Week

5

Mardi Gras

Constitution Day (Mexico)

Hank Aaron's Birthday (1934)

International Pancake Day

National Weatherperson's Day

6

100 Billionth Crayola® Crayon Produced (1996)

Babe Ruth's Birthday (1895)

National Girls and Women in Sports Day

7

Chinese New Year

Charles Dickens's Birthday (1812)

Love Your Robot Day

Tattooing Machine Introduced (1875)

8

Jules Verne's Birthday (1828)

NASDAQ Debuts (1971)

Russo-Japanese War Began (1904)

9

Hershey's® Chocolate Founded (1894)

National Weather Service Established (1870)

Toothache Day

10

Treaty of Paris Signed—French and Indian War Ended (1763)

Umbrella Day

11

First Weekly Weather Report (1878)

Steamboat Patented (1809)

Thomas Edison's Birthday (1847)

Feb 11 - 17
Random Acts of Kindness Week

12

Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (1809)

Charles Darwin's Birthday (1809)

NAACP Founded (1909)

13

First Public School Founded in U.S. (1635)

14

Valentine's Day

Arizona Admission Day (1912)

Ferris Wheel Day

Oregon Admission Day (1859)

Read to Your Child Day

15

Galileo Galilei's Birthday (1564)

Muhammad Ali Lost Boxing Title (1978)

Susan B. Anthony Day

16

Fidel Castro Became Leader of Cuba (1959)

King Tutankhamen's Tomb Opened (1923)

Nylon Patented (1937)

Who Shall I Be? Day

17

Last Classic VW Beetle Assembled (1972)

National PTA Founders Day

18

Presidents' Day

Pluto Discovered (1930)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Published (1885)

19

Phonograph Patented (1878)

FDR Authorized Japanese Internment (1942)

Nicolaus Copernicus's Birthday (1473)

U.S. Marines Went Ashore at Iwo Jima (1945)

20

"Batman & Robin" Comic Debuted (1944)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Opened in NYC (1872)

21

First Phone Book Issued (1878)

Malcolm X Assassinated (1965)

National Sticky Bun Day

22

George Washington's Birthday (1732)

Spain Ceded Florida to the U.S (1819)

Woolworth Opened the First "Five Cent Store" (1879)

23

First Animal Cloning (1997)

Santa Anna Began Siege of the Alamo (1836)

The Tootsie Roll Debuted (1896)

24

First Uranus "Flyby" (1986)

Flag Day in Mexico

Wilhelm Carl Grimm's Birthday (1786)

25

First African-American Elected to U.S. Senate (1870)

Glacier Bay Proclaimed a National Monument (1925)

Quiet Day

26

Grand Canyon National Park Established (1919)

Levi Strauss's Birthday (1829)

Tell a Fairy Tale Day

27

15th Recorded Passage of Halley's Comet (837)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Birthday (1807)

Polar Bear Day

28

Computer Core Memory Patented (1956)

DNA Discovered (1953)

International Floral Design Day

29

First Salem Witchcraft Accusations (1692)

Leap Year Day

 

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