Lesson Plan Curriculum Calendar- Find Lesson Plan Ideas by Date- October 2009

Author’s Purpose Lesson Plans Curriculum Calendar << October 2009 >>
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27 Patriot Samuel Adams is born in 1722 Also try: Patriots, Revolutionary War	28 Artist Caravaggio is born in 1573 Also try: Baroque Art, Naturalism, Chiaroscuro	29 Author Miguel de Cervantes is born in 1547 Also try: Spanish Literature, Don Quixote	30 Author Truman Capote is born in 1924 Also try: Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood	1 Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946 Also try: World War II, Holocaust, Nazism	2 Social leader Mohandas Gandhi is born in 1869 Also try: Satyagraha, Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, India, Mahatma Gandhi	3 East and West Germany reunify in 1990 Also try: Cold War, Berlin Wall, Iron Curtain
4 USSR launches Sputnik I in 1957 Also try: Satellites, Cold War, Space Race	5 Dramatist and politician Vaclav Havel is born in 1936 Also try: Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Velvet Revolution	6 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture in 1889 Also try: Movies, Film	7 Far side of the moon first observed by Luna 3 in 1959 Also try: Luna Program, Spacecraft, Space Exploration	8 Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson is born in 1941 Also try: Rainbow Coalition, Civil Rights, African Americans	9 The most recent supernova is observed in the Milky Way in 1604 Also try: Milky Way, Galaxy, Astronomy	10 The Metric System of measurement is conceived in 1796 Also try: Measurement, Standard Measurement
11 Activist and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt is born in 1884 Also try: Civil Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, First Lady	12 Columbus Day Also try: Christopher Columbus Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti is born in 1935 Also try: Opera, Pavarotti, Tenors, The Three Tenors	13 English prime minister Margaret Thatcher is born in 1925 Also try: Prime Minister, Cold War, Thatcherism George Washington lays the White House cornerstone in 1792 Also try: Washington D.C., Oval Office	14 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 Also try: MLK, Dr. Martin Luther King, Civil Rights	15 Roman poet Virgil is born in 70 B.C. Also try: Latin, Aeneid	16 John Brown leads a raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859 Also try: Harper's Ferry, Abolition, Slavery	17 African American Poetry Day Also try: Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Rap Music, Blues
18 Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis is born in 1961 Also try: Wynton Marsalis, Classical Music, Trumpet, Pulitzer Prize	19 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown in 1781 Also try: Yorktown, Revolutionary War	20 National Fruit Day Also try: Fruit Trees, Nutrition, Apples	21 Thomas Edison unveils the light bulb in 1879 Also try: Menlo Park, Thomas Edison	22 Sam Houston is inaugurated as 1st president of Texas Republic in 1836 Also try: Texas, Sam Houston	23 Soccer champion Pele is born in 1940 Also try: Pele, Brazil	24 United Nations Day Also try: UN Charter, UN General Assembly
25 Artist Pablo Picasso is born in 1881 Also try: Cubism, Blue Period, Guernica	26 Erie Canal opens in 1825 Also try: Great Lakes, Lake Erie	27 President Theodore Roosevelt is born in 1858 Also try: National Parks, Panama Canal, Conservationism	28 Physician Jonas Salk is born in 1914 Also try: Polio, Vaccines, March of Dimes	29 Internet created in 1969 Also try: World Wide Web, Net	30 President John Adams is born in 1735 Also try: Founding Fathers, Revolutionary War, Republicanism	31 Halloween Also try: Halloween Costumes, All Hallow's Eve, Day of the Dead