• Across the Sea: Europeans Explore the New World
  Looking for information and activities about the intrepid adventurers who first voyaged to the New World? Check out these Internet sites and help your students explore the earliest explorers.
• Explore the Explorers Online!
  Columbus and the other early explorers provide your students with the opportunity to explore new worlds -- as well as worlds of knowledge and discovery! This week, Education World delivers a shipload of sites and activities guaranteed to keep your lessons afloat -- and your curriculum current.
• Great Sites for Teaching About…Explorers
  Best sites on the web for teaching about exlorers.

Jefferson Davis born (1808)

In 1965, astronaut Edward White became the first American to ``walk'' in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.

• Science Center's Space Activities Page
• NASA Spacelink Gets a New Look
  Have you checked out NASA Spacelink's new look? Spacelink, designed for teachers and students, is better than ever. It's faster, more efficient, and boasts a powerful new search engine.
• The Space Place
  This site is filled with projects and activities related to current space missions and information.
• Gemini 4Information by NASA about the space flight.

Allen Ginsburg born (1926)

• 9-12 Literature & Poetry Center
  Resources and tools from our Language & Literature Center.

Battle of Midway began (WW 2; 1942)

• World War II

Casey At the Bat 1st published (1888)

• Take Them Out to the Ball Game!
  When baseball fever strikes, these activities from Education World can be the perfect antidote. Included: A stadium full of activities and links to team sites, baseball math sites, cross-curricular projects -- and even the famous Abbott and Costello "Who's On First?" script!
• 9-12 Literature & Poetry Center
  Resources and tools from our Language & Literature Center.

Clipper ship Flying Cloud launched (1851)

200 inch Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory(1948)

1865 George V king of England (1910-36) born

1875 Georges Bizet France, composer died

1916 ROTC established by Act of Congress

1934 Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted

1937 Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) weds Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France

1963 Pope John XXIII dies at 81

International Mother's Peace Day