Henry Ford made his 1st workable car (1896)

• Planes and Trains and Automobiles … and Study Skills!
  Celebrate National Transportation Month -- "transport" students to a dozen activities that provide practice in reading maps, schedules, timetables, and more. Included: Four study skills teaching master activities for students!
• Celebrate Henry Ford's Life with a New Bio!

780 -BC- 1st total solar eclipse reliably recorded by Chinese

Emancipation Day in Tonga

1738 George III English king during American Revolution (1760-1820) born

• Join the Revolution!
  Follow the progress of the American Revolution War from the first battle to the last.

1783 Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)

1792 Capt George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain

• 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.
• Millenium Series: The Great Explorers!
  This week, Education World presents the second in our year-long Millennium Series. Last month we explored the Middle Ages; this month we turn our sites to the great explorers of the millennium. In the stories listed below you'll find resources and activities for exploring the great explorers -- from Leif Eriksson to Neil Armstrong!
• 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.

1805 Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute

1812 Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"

1989 Ayatalloh Ruhullah Khomeini of Iran, dies at 86 of internal bleeding

1919 Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill

• March Into Women's History Month!
  Planning a March project to celebrate Women's History Month? Join us as we explore some of the best Web sites for and about women.
• Celebrate Women's History Month!
  Each March, Education World recognizes women's history month with new classroom teaching resources. This year, we're excited to bring you several valuable tools -- including a Women's History WebQuest, Women of the Century. This WebQuest will challenge your students to work cooperatively as they create a women's history encyclopedia to supplement outdated and sorely lacking textbooks!
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
  The site offers a collection of on-line primary documents and supporting materials on women's issues in history.

1940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops

• History: World War II
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• History: Wars
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1940 German forces enter Paris

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1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II

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John Maynard Keynes Cambridge England, economist/math/journalist born 1883