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Not your everyday calendar, here you can find important events in literary history, authors' birthdays, and a variety of holidays, all with related activities and resources that make them more relevant to students. View by day, by week, or by month.

  August, 2017  

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		1 The prototype for the World Wide Web was created in 1990.   Get ready to go back to school!	2 James Baldwin was born today in 1924.	3	4 President Barack Obama was born today in 1961.   Celebrate John Venn's Birthday!	5 French author Guy de Maupassant was born on this day in 1850.   Author Amy Tan was born today in 1952
6 The first woman swam the English Channel in 1926.	7 The first picture of Earth was taken by the U.S. satellite Explorer VI in 1959.	8	9 Science writer Seymour Simon was born in 1931.	10 The Smithsonian Institution was founded in 1846.	11 Alex Haley, author of Roots, was born in 1921.	12 Walter Dean Myers, author of the Printz Award-winning novel Monster, was born in 1937.
13 The first English printer, William Caxton, was born on this day in 1422.	14 Ernest Thayer, author of the famous poem "Casey at the Bat," was born in 1863.	15 In 1870, the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad was completed.	16	17 Davy Crockett was born in 1786.	18 Montgomery Ward published the first mail-order catalog in 1872.	19
20	21 Monarch butterflies begin their migration in the fall.	22 Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury was born in 1920.	23 The tropical storm that became Katrina formed over the Bahamas in 2005.	24	25 Caldecott-winning illustrator Lane Smith was born in 1959.	26 The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote in 1920.
27	28 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.	29 Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel Out of the Dust, was born in 1952.	30 Caldecott Medal-winner Virginia Lee Burton was born on this day in 1909.	31

Types of Calendar Activities

• Authors & Texts

  Birthdays, publication dates, and more

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• Historical Figures & Events

  Notable people and happenings in history

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• Holidays & School Celebrations

  Special days and how to observe them

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• Literacy-Related Events

  Celebrations that promote and encourage literacy

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