July 2009

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The first U.S. zoo opened in Philadelphia in 1874.

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It’s Independence Day! Or is it?

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Annual fence-painting contests take place in Hannibal, Missouri.

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Write letters that make things happen!

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Nancy Farmer, three-time Newbery honoree, was born in 1941.

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The Scopes Trial began today in 1925.

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Children’s author Patricia Polacco was born in 1944.

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Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817.

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Author Laura Joffe Numeroff was born in 1953.

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African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.

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On the Road author Jack Kerouac embarked on his first cross-country road trip in 1947.

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Children’s publisher John Newbery was born in 1713.

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First human walks on the moon in 1969.

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Novelist Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899.

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The Pied Piper led the children out of Hamelin in 1376.

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Jan Berenstain, co-author of the popular Berenstain Bears series of books, was born in 1923.

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Author of Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt, was born in 1932.

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Paperback books were first introduced in 1935.

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J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter celebrate birthdays.