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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.

  December, 2015  

SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT
		1 Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.	2 David Macaulay was born in 1946.	3 Frederick Douglass began publication of The North Star today in 1847.   Dr. Christian Barnard performed the first human heart transplant.	4	5 Walt Disney was born in 1901.
6	7 Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese in 1941.	8 Snowflake Bentley illustrator Mary Azarian was born in 1940.	9 Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.	10 Poet Emily Dickinson was born in 1830.	11 Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born today.	12
13	14	15 Bill of Rights Day is observed.	16 The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.	17 The Wright brothers made their phenomenal flight!	18	19 Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928.
20 Sandra Cisneros was born today in 1954.	21 It's Winter in the Northern Hemisphere!	22	23 Avi was born in 1937.	24	25 A Christmas Carol was the first book transmitted over radio!	26
27	28 Poor Richard's Almanack was first published in 1733.	29	30	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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