October 2013 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

<< October 2013 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
29 Artist Caravaggio is born in 1573 Also try: Baroque art, naturalism, chiaroscuro Author Miguel de Cervantes is born in 1547 Also try: Spanish literature, Don Quixote	30 Author Truman Capote is born in 1924 Also try: In Cold Blood	1 Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946 Also try: World War II, Holocaust, Nazism	2 Social leader Mahatma Gandhi is born in 1869 Also try: satyagraha, civil disobedience, nonviolence, 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: satellite, Cold War, Space Race	5 Dramatist and politician Vaclav Havel is born in 1936 Also try: Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia
6 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture in 1889 Also try: movie, film, invention	7 Far side of the moon first observed by Luna 3 in 1959 Also try: spacecraft, space exploration	8 The Great Chicago Fire starts in 1871 Also try: fire, Chicago, disaster Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson is born in 1941 Also try: Rainbow Coalition, civil rights	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 Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti is born in 1935 Also try: tenor, The Three Tenors
13 English prime minister Margaret Thatcher is born in 1925 Also try: Prime Minister, Cold War, Parliament George Washington lays the White House cornerstone in 1792 Also try: Washington D.C., Oval Office	14 Discoverers' Day Also try: discovery, Hawaiian islands, Hawaii Columbus Day Also try: Columbus, America, explorer	15 Nelson Mandela is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 Also try: South Africa, apartheid, human rights 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 Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 Also try: Nobel Peace Prize, charity, selflessness	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 U.S. Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 Also try: Senate, United States, Louisiana	21 Thomas Edison unveils the light bulb in 1879 Also try: Thomas Edison, light, electricity	22 Sam Houston is inaugurated as first President of the Republic of Texas in 1836 Also try: Texas, Sam Houston	23 Soccer champion Pele is born in 1940 Also try: Brazil, athlete	24 United Nations Day Also try: UN Charter, UN General Assembly	25 Artist Pablo Picasso is born in 1881 Also try: Cubism, Picasso's 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 Statue of Liberty is dedicated in 1886 Also try: American Revolution, New York, immigration Physician Jonas Salk is born in 1914 Also try: polio, vaccine, public health	29 The Internet is created in 1969 Also try: World Wide Web	30 President John Quincy Adams is born in 1735 Also try: Revolutionary War	31 Halloween Also try: Halloween costume, All Hallow's Eve, pumpkin	1 Day of the Dead Also try: Dia de los Muertos, Mexico European Union comes into existence in 1993 Also try: European Commission, Euro	2 Frontiersman Daniel Boone is born in 1734 Also try: folk hero, the Wilderness Road

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