World Book Day

Submitted by snituama on April 22, 2013 - 1:30pm
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Event Date Display: 
April 23, 1995
Related Lesson Plans: 
Fables and Trickster Tales Around the World
Fairy Tales Around the World
Related Links: 
Celebrating World Poetry
World Book and Copyright Day

Nakahama Manjirō (中濱 万次郎) the first Japanese national to emigrate to America, born

Submitted by snituama on January 9, 2013 - 1:48pm
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Repeats every year until Sat Jan 27 2035 .
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Event Date Display: 
January 27, 1827
Related Links: 
EDSITEment: Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
EDSITEment: Interactive Map The Travels of Manjiro
EDSITEment: Timeline of Manjiro's Life

Rupert Brooke, English WWI poet, is born

Submitted by snituama on August 3, 2012 - 12:41pm
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Event Date Display: 
August 3, 1887
Related Lesson Plans: 
Poetry of The Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'?
Related Links: 
Poetry Foundation: Rupert Brooke
Humanities Magazine: British Modernism’s Many Manners

Day of the Dead ~ Día de los Muertos (Spanish)

Submitted by edsite.admin on November 2, 2011 - 9:50am
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November 2
Related Lesson Plans: 
Mexican Culture and History through Its National Holidays
Related Links: 
Origins and History of Halloween and the Day of the Dead
Thinkfinity November 2 - Mexicans celebrate the annual holiday of El Dia de los Muertos

English metaphysical poet and Parliamentarian Andrew Marvell born

Submitted by edsite.admin on August 17, 2011 - 10:49am
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Repeats every year until Sat Mar 31 2035 .
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Event Date Display: 
March 31, 1621
Related Lesson Plans: 
"World enough, and time"—Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
Related Links: 
American Academy of Poets: Andrew Marvell

UN establishes International Day of Peace

Submitted by edsite.admin on August 9, 2011 - 2:30pm
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Repeats every year until Fri Sep 21 2035 .
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Event Date Display: 
September 21, 1981
Related Lesson Plans: 
Lesson 1: Postwar Disillusionment and the Quest for Peace, 1921–1929
Lesson 4: Fighting for Peace: The Fate of Wilson's Fourteen Points
The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles
Related Links: 
International Day of Peace

Wilfred Owen, British poet and WWI soldier, is born

Submitted by edsite.admin on April 29, 2011 - 12:28pm
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Literature & Language Arts
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Repeats every year until Sun Mar 18 2035 .
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Event Date Display: 
March 18, 1893
Related Lesson Plans: 
Poetry of The Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'?
Related Links: 
American Academy of Poets - Wilfred Owen

Mexico gains independence from Spain when the Plan of Iguala is promulgated

Submitted by edsite.admin on January 25, 2011 - 4:40pm
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Repeats every year until Thu Feb 24 2011 .
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February 24, 1821
Related Lesson Plans: 
Mexican Culture and History through Its National Holidays
Related Student Resources: 
Launchpad: Mexican Holidays
Backstreets of Oaxaca, pastel by Pearl Lau, NEH Participant, 2010

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Octavio Paz Lozano, Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, is born

Submitted by snituama on July 30, 2012 - 1:22pm
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Foreign Language
Literature & Language Arts
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Repeats every year until Sat Mar 31 2035 .
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Event Date Display: 
March 31, 1914
Related Links: 
Six Hispanic Literary Giants
Poetry Foundation: Octavio Paz

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