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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 2012—Labor Day 2012 1777—Stars and Stripes flies for the first time 1919—Wilson embarks on tour to promote League of Nations 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 1847—Thoreau leaves Walden Pond for Concord, Massachusetts 1860—Feminist Jane Addams is born	7 1917—Jacob Lawrence, American painter, is 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 1957— President Eisenhower signs first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction into law 1976—Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong dies	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 1814—Francis Scott Key writes words to the Star-Spangled Banner 1876—American short story writer Sherwood Anderson born	14 1901—Theodore Roosevelt becomes President on death of McKinley 1812—Napoleon enters Moscow	15 1963—Church bombed in Birmingham Alabama killing four black girls 1789—Novelist James Fennimore Cooper born 1968—National Hispanic Heritage Month
16 1620—Mayflower departs England for Plymouth, Massachusetts	17 1862—Battle of Antietam 1787—Constitution Day: Final Draft of the Constitution signed 1883—William Carlos Williams, American poet, is born	18 1709—English author Dr. Samuel Johnson born 1850—Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law 1858—Third Lincoln–Douglas debate more	19 1796—President George Washington gives his farewell address to the nation 1867—English book illustrator Arthur Rackham born 1911—William Golding, English author, is born	20 1878—American author Upton Sinclair born 1885—Ferdinand “Jellyroll” Morton, jazz musician, born 1928— American poet Donald Hall born	21 1832—African American abolitionist Maria W. Miller Stewart delivers speech at Franklin Hall 1784—Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, first U.S. daily newspaper, published 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 1957—Little Rock Central High integrated 1492—Christopher Columbus sets sail for western sea route to China	26 1789—Thomas Jefferson becomes Secretary of State 1888—Poet T.S. Eliot is born 1898—American composer George Gershwin born	27 1840—Thomas Nast, “Father of the American cartoon,” is born 1722—Samuel Adams, who helped plan Boston Tea Party, is born	28 1781—Battle of Yorktown begins 1968—American Indian Day	29 1789—Congress officially establishes the armed forces of the United States 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 1924—American novelist Truman Capote born more

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