• Deaf-Blind Awareness Week
  Education World looks at some noteworthy Web sites dedicated to the topic of deaf-blindness.
• Bandaids and Blackboards
  The intent of this site is to sensitize children to what it's like to grow up with a medical problem.
• Understanding Kids Who Are Different: Activities for Teaching About Disabilities
• Special Education: Physical Challenges
  In this section you'll find resources on hearing & vision impairments, spinal cord injury, cleft pallete, seizure disorders, and other less pervasive physical challenges.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish author (Don Quixote), born (1547)

Enrico Fermi, Italian nuclear physicist, born (1901)

• Science Center
  Great Scientists - Physics

Admiral Horatio Nelson, British naval hero at Trafalgar, born (1758)

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (Blowup), born (1912)

Lech Walesa, leader of Polish Solidarity movement (Nobel 1983), born (1943)

Emile Zola, French author (Nana), died at 62 (1902)

Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist, died at 73 (1997)

• Refrigerator to Renoir: Ten Great Art Lessons on the Net

Newsman Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS Radio (1930)

Congress established the U.S. Army (1789)

Shuttle Discovery renewed manned U.S. space flights after the Challenger disaster (1988)

• The Space Place
  This site is filled with projects and activities related to current space missions and information.

Scotland Yard, London's Metropolitan Police Force, formed (1829)

Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opened to the public (1923)

• Oceans
  Great sites on the web for teaching about oceans.
• Tracking Sea Turtles: Lessons in Saving an Endangered Species
• Turtle Trax
  This site is devoted to the promotion and preservation of the marine turtle.
• An Ocean of Activities!

President John .F Kennedy authorized use of federal troops in integration of University of Mississippi (1962)

• Law: Civil Rights & Liberties
• Civil Rights Movement
• States Step Up Efforts to Reduce School Segregation
  In response to a state Supreme Court ruling that children in Hartford’s urban schools were receiving an inferior and unequal education, Connecticut stepped up efforts to improve the education of urban schools.