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1
Mother Goose Day.
Also try: Nursery Rhymes
2
Inventor Elijah McCoy is born in 1844.
Also try: The Real McCoy, Inventors, Engines
3
Margaret Thatcher becomes the United Kingdom's first female prime minister in 1979.
Also try: Parliament, Prime Minister
4
Four student protestors are killed at Kent State in 1970.
Also try: Vietnam, Student Protests
5
6
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is born in 1856.
Also try: Psychoanalysis, Dream Symbolism, Ego
7
$180 million dollar out-of-court settlement is reached in Agent Orange lawsuit.
Also try: Herbicidal Warfare, Vietnam
8
President Harry Truman is born in 1884.
Also try: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Atomic Bombings
German Surrender is signed on VE Day in 1945.
Also try: Victory in Europe Day, WWII
9
Abolitionist John Brown is born in 1800.
Also try: Harper's Ferry, Slavery
10
Ceremony is held to mark completion of 1st U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869.
Also try: Railroad, Transportation, Trains
11
Artist Salvador Dali is born in 1904.
Also try: Surrealism
12
Nurse and Activist Florence Nightingale is born in 1820.
Also try: Nursing, Lady With the Lamp
13
Great Dust Bowl storm occurs in 1934.
Also try: Depression, Migrants, Oakies, Grapes of Wrath
14
Lewis and Clark begin their expedition in 1803.
Also try: Louisiana Purchase
15
Johannes Kepler discovers the Law of Harmonics in 1618.
Also try: Scientific Revolution, Laws of Planetary Motion
16
Mississippi River steamboat service begins in 1817.
Also try: Mississippi River
17
18
Mt. St. Helens erupts in 1980.
Also try: Volcanoes
19
Ringling Bros. circus premieres in 1884.
Also try: Ringling Bros.
20
Entrepreneur Levi Strauss markets blue jeans in 1873.
Also try: Clothing, Jeans
21
Aviator Charles Lindbergh lands the Spirit of St. Louis in Paris in 1927.
Also try: Aviation, Spirit of St. Louis
22
First reported sighting of the Loch Ness monster in 1933.
Also try: Nessie
23
Scientist Carolus Linnaeus is born in 1707.
Also try: Taxonomy, Classification
24
Brooklyn Bridge is opened in 1883.
Also try: Bridges, Suspension Bridges
25
Athlete Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour in 1935.
Also try: African Americans, Olympics, Track and Field
26
Astronaut Sally Ride is born in 1951.
Also try: Astronauts, Space Travel
27
Queen Mary sails from Southampton on her maiden voyage in 1936.
Also try: Transportation, Passenger Ships
28
Olympic Champion Jim Thorpe is born in 1888.
Also try: Olympics, Pentathlon, Decathlon
29
Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay reach Mt. Everest summit in 1953.
Also try: Edmund Hillary, Tenzig Norgay, Mountain Climbing, Explorers
30
U.S. launches Surveyor I to the moon in 1966.
Also try: Lunar Exploration, Space Travel, NASA
31
Poet Walt Whitman is born in 1819.
Also try: Leaves of Grass, O Captain My Captain

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