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• America's Freedom Documents!
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Louis Armstrong born 1901

Neil Simon born 1927

Nathaniel Hawthorne born 1804

Calvin Coolidge born 1872

• Great Sites for Teaching About…Presidents of the United States
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English Colonists landed at Roanoke, Virginia (1585)

Poem "America the Beautiful" published (1895)

Liberty Bell rang (Philadelphia; 1776)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...The American Revolution
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Battle of Vicksburg (1863)

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• US: Civil War
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Pat Garrett shot Billy the Kid (1881)

• 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.

Communist Manifesto published (1848)

Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars (1997)

• Space Sciences
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• The Space Place
  This site is filled with projects and activities related to current space missions and information.
• Exploring Planets in the Classroom
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Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died (1826)

• Great Sites for Teaching About…Presidents of the United States
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• Presidential Sites Resources
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1802 - US Military Academy officially opened at West Point NY

1831 - James Monroe the fifth president died

• Great Sites for Teaching About…Presidents of the United States
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1894 - Republic of Hawaii established.

• State History: Hawaii
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• Happy Anniversary, Hawaii! --- 40 Ways to Teach the 50th State
  Take a tour of this exotic state, examine its wildlife, creep to the volcano's edge, and discover the wealth of culture and diversity that isolation can bring. Aloha!
• Great Sites for Teaching about Hawaii
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