Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Event Date Display: 
April 8, 1982
Related Lesson Plans: 
Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands
Anne Frank: Writer
Related Links: 
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Days of Remembrance
Coming of Age in the Holocaust, Coming of Age Now

Rupert Brooke, English WWI poet, is born

Submitted by snituama on August 3, 2012 - 12:41pm
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Repeats every year until Fri Aug 03 2035 .
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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

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

Wilfred Owen, British poet and WWI soldier, is born

Submitted by edsite.admin on April 29, 2011 - 12:28pm
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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 .
February 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

Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" published

Submitted by jphelan on April 25, 2013 - 7:14am
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Repeats every year until Wed Apr 25 2035 .
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Event Date Display: 
April 25, 1719
Related Links: 
UVA: Robinson Crusoe
Common Knowledge Foundation: Teacher's Guide

U.S. forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp

Submitted by jphelan on April 11, 2013 - 1:27pm
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Repeats every year until Wed Apr 11 2035 .
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Event Date Display: 
April 11, 1945
Related Lesson Plans: 
Holocaust and Resistance
Related Links: 
Coming of Age in the Holocaust
NEH: Margaret Bourke White
NEH: Eli Wiesel

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) founded

Submitted by jphelan on April 3, 2013 - 2:39pm
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Event Date Display: 
April 4, 1949
Related Lesson Plans: 
Lesson 3: The Formation of the Western Alliance, 1948–1949
Lesson 3: Victory and the New Order in Europe
Related Initiatives: 
We The People
Related Links: 
Truman Library: NATO Treaty

Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf drowns herself at age 59

Submitted by jphelan on March 28, 2013 - 6:58am
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Repeats every year until Wed Mar 28 2035 .
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Event Date Display: 
March 28, 1941
Priority: 
1
Related Links: 
Virginia Woolf in the Classroom
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