CALENDAR OF EVENTS - FEBRUARY

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- Events:

• American Heart Month (1-28) Presidential Proclamation issued each year for February since 1964. (Pl88-254 of Dec 30, 1963.)

• Black History Month (1-28) Black History Hotlist: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html Black History February 2002 (with great links) http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html History and Timelines; Special Features; Quizzes CNN Interactive: http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/black_history/

• Black History Month: http://encarta.msn.com/guide/blackhistory.asp

• 1: Car Insurance First Issued: Anniversary (1898) Travelers Insurance Company issued the first car insurance against accidents with horses.

• 1: First Session of the Supreme Court: Anniversary (1790) The Supreme Court of the US met for the first time at New York City with Chief justice John Jay presiding.

• 1: Freedom Day: Anniversary Anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's approval, Feb 1, 1865, of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution (abolishing slavery): "1. Neither slaver nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the US or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

• 1: Greensboro Sit-in: Anniversary (1960) Background: http://www.sitins.com/ Timeline: http://www.greensboro.com/sitins/timeline.htm
• 1: Greensboro: Sit-in Anniversary Short Description: http://www.historychannel.com/

• 1: Hughes, Langston: 100th Birth Anniversary (1902-1967) Bio: http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=84 (with links to poems) Langston Hughes : Teacher Resource File: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hughes.htm (with lesson plan ideas)

• 1: Ban on African National Congress Lifted: Anniversary (1990) The 30-year ban on the African National Congress was lifted by South African President F.W. de Klerk also vowed to free Nelson Mandela and lift restrictions on 33 other opposition groups.

• 2: Groundhog Day Old beliefs that if the sun shines on Candlemas Day, or if the groundhog sees his shadow when he emerges on this day, six weeks of winter will ensue.

• 2: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Anniversary (1848) Texas-Mexico border dispute. The Mexican War: http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/muzzey.html Short explanation: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ghtreaty/

• 3: Fifteenth Amendment to US Constitution Ratified: Anniversary (1870) No citizen of the United States shall be denied the right to vote solely on the basis of their race, or color, or former servitude.

• 3: Income Tax Birthday: Sixteenth Amendment to US Constitution: Ratification Anniversary (1913) http://www.vaix.net/~captainnemo/plan/16th.htm Lesson Plan ideas: Types of taxes: http://www.moneyopolis.com/teachers/answers/teachers_lpch.asp

• 4: Apache Wars began: Anniversary (1861) Buffalo Soldiers & Indian Wars (with links) http://www.buffalosoldier.net/

• 4: Rosa Lee Parks (1913) Civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on the bus, born in Tuskegee, AL. Essay: http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html

• 10: French and Indian War Ends: Anniversary (1763) Explanation and Sources: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/7yearswar/fiwxx.htm

• 12: Chinese New Year Explanation: http://www.indiana.edu/~chasso/newyear.html Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco's web page: http://www.c-c-c.org/ Chinese Calendar: http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-chinese.html

• 12: Lincoln, Abraham: Birth Anniversary (1809) Lincoln's web page: http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln.html (with links, quotes, speeches) With short bio and other resources: http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html
• Lesson Plan Ideas: http://www.americanpresident.org/lesson_plans.htm (from The American President) Internet Public Library (with other links) http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/alincoln.html

• 12: Mardi Gras History of: http://www.holidays.net/mardigras/story.htm and http://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/history.html

• 12: NAACP Founded: Anniversary (1909) For info: www.naacp.org. The Feb 2001 issue of Cobblestone magazine is devoted to the NAACP.

• 14: Read to your Child Day Motto: "Show your kids you love them: Read to them."

• 17: Geronimo: Death Anniversary (1909) Bio and the story of the Apache: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/geronimo/geronixx.htm

• 17: National PTA Founders' Day: Anniversary (1897) Web Page: http://www.pta.org/

• 18: President's Day Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/gwashington.html George Washington Papers: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html Bio: http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/Presday.html ESL Quiz: http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/tf-lb-pday.html (for internet use) Lesson Plan Ideas: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/gw/gwintro.html

• 19: Japanese Internment: 60th Anniversary (1942) http://www.oz.net/~cyu/internment/main.html Newspaper articles from San Francisco: http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html Background: http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Exhibit/default.htm War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946: http://www.library.arizona.edu/images/jpamer/wraintro.html Race, Rights & Repartion (with poetry and photo essays links) http://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/kang/racerightsreparation/Resources/Web_Links/web_links.html Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/ex9066/index.html

• 20:Douglass, Frederick: Death Anniversary (1895) Short bio with other links: http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/home.html Bio: http://www.toptags.com/aama/bio/men/freddoug.htm

• 21: First Woman to Graduate from Dental School: Anniversary (1866) Lucy Hobbs became the first woman to graduate from a dental school at Cincinnati, OH. February 22

• 21: Montgomery Boycott Arrests: Anniversary (1956) With links to web chronology, ready to use lesson, 2 page summary on the boycott, etc. http://sobek.colorado.edu/~jonesem/montgomery.html

• 21: Washington, George: Birth Anniversary (1732)

• 23: Du Bois, W.E.B.: Birth Anniversary (1868) http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/dubois_w.htm

• 26: Federal Communications Commission Created: Anniversary (1934) President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the creation of a Communications Commission, which became the FCC. It was created by Congress June 19, 1934, to oversee communication by radio, wire or cable. TV and satellite communication later became part of its charge. Homepage: http://www.fcc.gov/

• 26: Strauss, Levi: Birth Anniversary (1829)

• 27:Twenty-second Amendment to US Constitution (Two-Term Limit): Ratification Anniversary (1950) After the four successive presidential terms of Franklin Roosevelt, the 22nd Amendment limited the tenure of presidential office to two terms.

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