Jakob Grimm, German collector of fairy tales, is born

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Related Lesson Plans: 
Fairy Tales Around the World

Inventor Eli Whitney (Cotton Gin) born

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Related Lesson Plans: 
Lesson 1: Factory vs. Plantation in the North and South
Related Links: 
Smithsonian History Wired: Eli Whitney
Africans in America: Growth and Entrenchment of Slavery

Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer, is born

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Related Lesson Plans: 
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Teaching Through the Novel

First U.S. antislavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY

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Related Lesson Plans: 
Lesson 2: Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
Lesson 3: A Debate Against Slavery
Related Initiatives: 
We The People
Related Links: 
Antislavery Literature Project

First National War Monument for Native Americans is dedicated

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Related Links: 
Celebrate We Shall Remain for Native American Heritage Month

Cinco de Mayo, a national holiday in Mexico

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Mexican Culture and History through Its National Holidays

Stars and Stripes flies for the first time

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Oh, Say, Can You See What the Star-Spangled Banner Means?

Nat Turner leads rebellion of slaves in Virginia

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Related Lesson Plans: 
Lesson 2: Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
Related Links: 
Documenting the American South: Confessions of Nat Turner
Africans in America: Nat Turner's Rebellion
Independent Lens: Nat Turner A Troublesome Property

Davy Crockett, American folk hero, frontiersman, congressman, and soldier, is born

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Related Lesson Plans: 
Davy Crockett, Tall Tales, and History
Related Links: 
Picture of Davy Crockett - Library of Congress
U VA Library: Bear Hunting in Tennessee
America's Story from LOC: Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna Recaptured the Alamo

Halloween (Celtic harvest festival “Samhain”)

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Origins and History of Halloween and the Day of the Dead

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