• History: World War II
  Resources from our database.
• History: Wars
  Resources from our database.

Memorial Day in Korea, South

National Day in Sweden

1755 - American patriot Nathan Hale is born in Coventry, Connecticut

• Great Sites for Teaching About...The American Revolution
  Best sites on the web for teaching about the American Revolution time period.
• Join the Revolution!
  Follow the progress of the American Revolution War from the first battle to the last.

YMCA founded in London (1844)

• Welcome to YMCAs in England
  Information about its founding and current state.

1st Drive-In Movie opened (Camden, New Jersey; 1933)

1st Roller Coaster opened (Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY; 1884)

Dr Carl Gustav Jung Swiss psychatrist, dies at 85, 1961

Susan B. Anthony fined for registering to vote (1872)

• 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WebQuest will challenge your students to work cooperatively as they create a women's history encyclopedia to supplement outdated and sorely lacking textbooks!
• 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.
• 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.

George Orwell's 1984 published (1949)

Cherokee Trail of Tears began (1838)

• The American West
  This site has an enormous amount of information to cover and does it very well. The site focuses on the "old West" and includes information on cowboys, Native Americans, pioneers and pioneer towns, explorers and more.
• Exploring Native Americans Across the Curriculum
  Blast stereotypes with across-the-curriculum activities for students of all ages.
• History of the Cherokee
  The site explores pre & post Western contact, the Trail of Tears, the effect of the Civil War on the Cherokee lands, and more.
• From Sea to Shining Sea: A Nation Moves Westward!
  Includes section on the treatment of Native Americans during the westward expansion.

1756 John Trumbull US painter (Declaration of Independence) born

1889 Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks

1904 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, NJ

• WHO TB Site

Dalai Lama Tibet, spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists born 1935

• Area Studies: Tibet
  Resources from our database.

Bjorn Borg ,Sodertlage Sweden, tennis champ (Wimbeldon 1976-79) born 1956

J Paul Getty oil magnate dies at 83 in London, 1976

Heinrich Rohrer, born 1933. Inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope.

In 1929, Vatican City becomes a sovereign state