Man Ray, American photographer, painter, and filmmaker of the Dada and Surrealist movements, born (1890)

C.S. Forester, English historical novelist, born (1899)

Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), born (1871)

• 9-12 Literature & Poetry Center
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Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the U.S., born 1908

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• Great Sites for Teaching About…Presidents of the United States
  Best sites on the web for teaching about the presidents.
• U.S. Presidents on the Internet!
  

Mother Teresa, of Calcutta (Nobel 1979), born in Yugoslavia (1910)

• Is Community Service a Waste of Time?
  Many educators use the terms community service and service learning interchangeably. They are two very different concepts, though. What is the difference? Should your students participate in one or the other? Included: Education World talks to the experts about what it takes to create a real service-learning project -- if that's possible.
• Students Learn While Helping at Soup Kitchen
  How do you teach compassion? A project launched by teachers and students at Presentation of Mary Academy in Hudson, N.H., is designed to do just that. Classroom learning is tied closely to the students' participation in a project carried on with the Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter. Included: Details of how service learning can be tied to learning across the curriculum!
• The Giraffe Project: Encouraging Kids to 'Stick their Necks Out' for Others

W. E. B. Du Bois, scholar and founder (NAACP), died (1963)

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

Titian, Italian artist, died (1576)

• Refrigerator to Renoir: Ten Great Art Lessons on the Net
• Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
  A comprehensive database of museum quality fine art that can be viewed on the internet.

President Reagan announced the Teacher in Space project (1984)

• The Space Place
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• An Education World e-Interview With Teacher Astronaut Barbara Morgan
  

First successful jet plane flight in Germany (1939)

First successful oil well drilled near Titusville, Penn (1859)

Americans defeated by British in Battle of Long Island (1776)

• 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.

Thomas Edison demonstrated his newest invention, "Talking Pictures", at his laboratory in N.J. (1910)

• A Study of Inventions Promotes Thinking 'Outside the Box'!
  An inventive-thinking unit that will challenge your students to think "outside the box." .
• Inventors and Inventions
  Great sites on inventors and inventions.

NASA launched the Mariner 2 space probe to explore Venus (1962)

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