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Home > Learning Calendar > This Day > August 26

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August 2001
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    FEATURED THEME:
National Water Quality Month

Earth Sciences
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Ecology: Pollution
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Education Resources Help Kids 'Give Water a Hand'
Finding pristine waters in the United States is becoming more difficult, but two organizations are helping teachers bring the plight of national waterways into the classroom. Give Water a Hand and River Watch Network offer help with projects that provide meaningful student learning.

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Geraldine Ferraro, first female major-party candidate for US. Vice-president office, born (1935)

Dr. Albert Sabin, polio vaccine discoverer, born (1906)

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, father of modern chemistry, born in Paris (1743)

Benjamin Bradlee, journalist Washington Post, born (1921)

William James, American philosopher and founder of Pragmatism, died in 1910

Andrew Mellon, American industrialist and philanthropist, died in 1937

Charles Lindbergh died at his home in Hawaii at 72 (1974)

Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the ACLU, died (1981)

1st US Kindergarten opened (1873)

Women’s Equality Day- designated by the U.S. Congress in 1971 to commemorate the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote.

Krakatoa erupted with increasingly large explosions killing 36,000 (1883)

French Assembly adopted Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)



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