Commemoration Day in Kyrgystan

Children's Day (US) International

Pentagon Papers published (1971)

Rhode Island became 1st US state to ban slavery (1774)

• The Road to Freedom: Using the WWW to Teach about Slavery
  Learn about some of the heroes who paved the way to freedom..
• Education World Looks at the Amistad Slave Revolt
  Includes sources relating to the reasons why slavery existed.
• Black History on the Internet
  Explore the best Black History sites for primary, middle, and high school level students. Activity and lesson ideas included!

Christopher Columbus 1st landed on continental America (1494)

• 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.
• Beyond Columbus: Teaching the Lessons of 1492
  Help your students explore Web sites that put the controversial explorer's achievements into historical perspective.

Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl agreed to reunite Germany (1989)

• US History: Cold War
  Resources from our database.

Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice (1967)

• Black History on the Internet
  Explore the best Black History sites for primary, middle, and high school level students. Activity and lesson ideas included!

Vostok 6 launched Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman cosmonaut (1963)

Benny Goodman the clarinet playing King of Swing died in NY at 77 (1986)

• Music Center
  Resources and tools from our Arts Center.
• American Music Conference
  The American Music Conference is the only national organization dedicated to the promotion of music and music education to the general public.

William Butler Yeats born (1865)

• 9-12 Literature & Poetry Center
  Resources and tools from our Language & Literature Center.
• Volumes of Verse: Poetry Resources on the Internet
  The internet offers a rich repertoire of verse -- if you know where to look.

Harold "Red" Grange born (1903)

• Physical Education Center
  Resources, tools and activities from our PE/Health Center.

1831 James Clerk Maxwell physicist, formulated electromagnetic theory born

• Science Center
  Great Scientists-Physics

1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians

1948 Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th

• 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!

1983 Pioneer 10 becomes 1st man-made object to leave Solar System

• Science Center's Space Activities Page