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				1 1939— Germany invades Poland, starting WWII 2011—Children's Good Manners Month	2 1945—Japan Surrenders 1911—Romare Bearden, American artist, is born (ca. 1911)	3 1777—Stars and Stripes flies for the first time 1919—Wilson embarks on tour to promote League of Nations 1783—Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the American Revolutionary War more
4 —Greek poet Pindar born 1908— American writer Richard Wright born 1957—African-American students attempt to enter Little Rock Central High School	5 1774—First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia 1836—Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas	6 1860—Feminist Jane Addams is born 1847—Thoreau leaves Walden Pond for Concord, Massachusetts	7 1917—Jacob Lawrence, American painter, is born 1885—American poet Elinor Wylie born 1533—England's Queen Elizabeth I born	8 1966—International Literacy Day is established by UNESCO 1883—Northern Pacific Railroad is completed	9 1828—Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and short story writer, is born 1976—Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong dies 1957— President Eisenhower signs first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction into law	10 1608—John Smith becomes President of the Jamestown Colony 1833—Andrew Jackson shuts down Second Bank of U.S.
11 1862—American short story writer O. Henry born 1885—British novelist and poet D. H. Lawrence born 2001—Al Qaeda terrorists attack America	12 1940—Lascaux Cave Paintings are discovered 1846—Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry secretly 1880—American journalist and critic H. L. Mencken, of American born	13 1876—American playwright Sherwood Anderson born	14 1814—Francis Scott Key writes words to the Star-Spangled Banner 1812—Napoleon enters Moscow	15 1857—President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft is born 1968—National Hispanic Heritage Month	16 1620—Mayflower departs England for Plymouth, Massachusetts	17 1787—Constitution Day: Final Draft of the Constitution signed
18 1895—Booker T. Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" address 1709—English author Dr. Samuel Johnson born	19 1796—President George Washington gives his farewell address to the nation 1867—English book illustrator Arthur Rackham born	20 1885—Ferdinand "Jellyroll" Morton, jazz musician, is born	21 1784—The nation's first daily newspaper, the "Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser," begins publication 1981—UN establishes International Day of Peace	22 1862—Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln	23 1806—Lewis and Clark return from the first trip to the U.S. Pacific Coast	24 1957—President Dwight Eisenhower dispatches federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce racial integration in schools 1896—F. Scott Fitzgerald is born 1755—U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall born
25 1897—1949 Nobel Prize winner, American novelist, William Faulkner is born 1492—Christopher Columbus sets sail for western sea route to China 1957—Little Rock Central High integrated	26 1776—British troops occupy Philadelphia 1888—Poet T.S. Eliot is born 1898—American composer George Gershwin born	27 1722—Samuel Adams, who helped plan Boston Tea Party, is born	28 1915—American Indian Day	29 1789—United States military is created 1547—Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra born (probable date)	30 1965—The National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities are established by Lyndon Johnson 1791—Mozart's Magic Flute premieres in Vienna 1868—Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" published more

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