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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.

  May, 2013  

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			1 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is in May!   May is Get Caught Reading Month!	2	3 National Public Radio began broadcasting in 1971.	4
5 Today is Cinco de Mayo.   Today is Leo Lionni's birthday.	6 Teacher Appreciation Week honors our teachers.	7	8 Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday.	9	10 Newbery Medal winner Christopher Paul Curtis was born in 1953.	11 Pedro Albizu Campos leads the Puerto Rican Independence movement.
12	13 Celebrate National Children's Book Week!	14 Star Wars creator George Lucas was born in 1944.	15	16 The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929.	17	18 Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
19 Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in 1925.	20 Charles Lindbergh began his transatlantic flight in 1927.	21	22 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiered in 1967.	23 Author Scott O'Dell was born on this day.	24 The Brooklyn Bridge opened on this day in 1883.	25 Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803.
26 Sally Ride, first American woman in space, was born in 1951.	27 On this day in 1907, Rachel Carson was born.   Memorial Day is observed in the United States today.	28 National Spelling Bee Finals are held this week.	29	30	31 Today is Walt Whitman's birthday.

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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