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Month Events
National Adopt a Dog Month
National Newspaper Week
Dessert Month
Firefighters and Fire Prevention Week
Energy Awareness Month
National Metric Week
Fun Days
1
World Vegetation Day
2
Debut of Charlie Brown and Snoopy in 1950
3
Captain Kangaroo's BIrthday
4
Space Age begins in 1957 when the U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik.
5
President Truman gives first televised presidential address in 1947.
6
The Jazz Singer, the first "talkie", is released in 1927
7
First railroad in the United States is completed in 1826.
8
Anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, which started on this day in 1871
9
Viking explorer Leif Ericson lands in America in 1000.
10
pledge of Allegiance is written in 1892
11
Eleanor Roosevelt is born in New York City in 1884
12
 
13
1792 building of White House begins.
14
In 1943 the speed of sound in broken for the first time.
15
World Poetry Day
16
National Bosses' Day
17
Black Poetry Day
18
Alaska Day
19
Benjamin Franklin flies kite and proves that lightning is electricity.
20
In 1818 the 49th parallel becomes the U.S./ Canada border.
21
Thomas Edison invents the light bulb in 1879.
22
First wireless message is sent across the Atlantic in 1915.
23
National Mole Day (Avagrado's Number)
24
United Nations Day
25
First postcard is mailed in the U.S in 1870
26
International Red Cross Day
27
DuPont announces the invention of nylon in 1938
28
In 1793 Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.
29
The Great Depression begins in 1929.
30
Bodybuilders Day
31
Halloween
   
 

 
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