August 2012 Curriculum Calendar - Lesson Plan Ideas by Date

Enhance your current curriculum with this fun reference calendar. Whether you want to highlight historic events, honor birthdays of significant people, or celebrate holidays, this is a valuable tool for every teacher. Click on any event to find a breadth of related teaching resources that will spark new ideas to spice up your daily lessons. There's something worth celebrating every day!

Curriculum Calendar

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Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
29 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini is born in 1883 Also try: Italy, Fascism, Axis Powers, WWII	30 Automaker Henry Ford is born in 1863 Also try: Ford Motor Company, Automobile	31 Author J.K. Rowling is born in 1965 Also try: Harry Potter	1 Author Herman Melville is born in 1819 Also try: Moby Dick	2 Trial run of San Francisco cable car on Clay St. in 1873 Also try: Transportation, Cable Cars	3 First ships pass through the Panama Canal in 1914 Also try: Theodore Roosevelt, Shipping, Panama	4 Musician Louis Armstrong is born in 1901 Also try: Satchmo, Jazz, Trumpet
5 Astronaut Neil Armstrong is born in 1930 Also try: Apollo II, Moon Landing	6 Hiroshima Day 1945 Also try: Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Atomic Bomb, Enola Gay	7 Prairie Home Companion's Garrison Keillor is born in 1942 Also try: Radio, Prairie Home Companion, Lake Woebegone George Washington creates the Order of the Purple Heart in 1782 Also try: Veterans, War Casualties, George Washington	8 Richard Nixon resigns in 1974 Also try: Watergate	9 Nagasaki Day 1945 Also try: Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph in 1892 Also try: Telegraph, Patent, Communication	10 Construction begins on Mt. Rushmore in 1927 Also try: Monuments, Presidents, Gutzon Borglum	11 Author Alex Haley is born in 1921 Also try: Roots, African Americans
12 Tennis champion Pete Sampras is born in 1971 Also try: Tennis	13 Hernan Cortes captures Mexico City from the Aztecs in 1521 Also try: Spanish Explorers, Conquistadors, Aztecs	14 Victory over Japan Day Also try: Potsdam Declaration, WWII, Victory Over Japan Day FDR signs the Social Security Act in 1935 Also try: FDR, Great Depression	15 Napoleon Bonaparte is born in 1769 Also try: Napoleonic Wars, Elba Island, French Empire	16 Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom in 1960 Also try: Independence, Colonization	17 Frontiersman Davy Crockett is born in 1786 Also try: Alamo, King of the Wild Frontier	18 Congress creates the Bureau of Immigration in 1894 Also try: Immigration
19 Indianapolis speedway holds its first auto race 1909 Also try: Auto Racing, Indianapolis 500	20 Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico in 1940 Also try: Bolshevik Revolution, Marxism, Communism	21 Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 Also try: Slavery, Slave Revolts, African Americans	22 International Red Cross is founded in 1864 Also try: Red Cross, Red Crescent	23 Basketball star Kobe Bryant is born in 1978 Also try: Kobe Bryant, Lakers	24 Mt. Vesuvius erupts burying Pompeii in 79 A.D. Also try: Mt. Vesuvius, Volcanoes	25 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight in 1932 Also try: Aviators, Aviation
26 Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa is born in 1910 Also try: Calcutta, Nobel Peace Prize, Missionaries of Charity 19th Amendment is passed in 1920 allowing women to vote Also try: Women's Suffrage, Voting	27 Krakatoa erupts in 1886 with explosions heard 3,000 miles away Also try: Volcanoes, Indonesia	28 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963 Also try: Civil Rights, Segregation The 1st radio commercial airs in New York City in 1922 Also try: Commercials, Advertising, Wireless	29 1st U.S. Indian Reservation is established in 1758 Also try: Native Americans	30 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice in 1967 Also try: Supreme Court, African Americans	31 1st solar powered car is demonstrated in Chicago in 1955 Also try: Renewable Resources, Energy	1 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky for world chess title in 1972 Also try: Chess, Grand Master

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