• Reading Aloud -- Are Students Ever Too Old?
  Do you read aloud to your students? Is there ever a time when students are too old to be read to?
• Reading and Writing Center
  Resources, tools and activities for spelling, grammar and more from our Language and Literature Center.

Edmund Halley, British astronomer first to observe the great comet of 1682 and accurately calculate its return, born (1656)

• Great Sites for Teaching about…Meteor Showers
  Some of the best Web sites on meteors, comets, and astronomy

Bram Stoker, Irish writer (Dracula), born (1847)

Margaret Mitchell, Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Gone with the Wind), born (1900)

Morley Safer, TV news correspondent (60 Minutes) born in Toronto, Canada (1931)

• Education News
  Resources from our Education News Center

Katherine Hepburn, movie actress (African Queen, On Golden Pond), born (1909)

Christiaan Barnard, pioneering heart surgeon who performed first human heart transplant born in South Africa (1922)

• Great Sites for Teaching about…the Human Heart
  

Norman Rockwell, popular American artist whose work was often featured in magazines died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, at 84 (1978)

• Refrigerator to Renoir: Ten Great Art Lessons on the Net
• Drawing and Painting Activities
  Resources and tools from our Arts Center

The Louvre museum in Paris opened to the public (1793)

• Great Sites for Teaching about…Museums
  

Montana became the 41st state (1889)

• Information : The Fifty States of the United States
  The site lists all 50 states with most of their features (flag, song, bird, motto etc.) and their capitol cities.

Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City (1929)

• Great Sites for Teaching about…Museums
  

Mount Holyoke, first American college founded specifically for the education of women opened in Massachusetts (1837)

• Higher Education Center
  Resources and tools from our Higher Education Center

Tom Dempsey, although handicapped by a malformed foot, kicked a 63 yard NFL record- setting field goal (1970)

• Great Sites for Teaching about Heroes
  

John F. Kennedy elected U.S President (1960)

• Primaries, Voting, and Elections
  Explore the voting process

Abraham Lincoln elected to his second term as President (1864)

• Election 2000: Classroom Activities
  Ideas for teaching about the upcoming elections and the election process

Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays (electro-magnetic rays) at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany (1895)

• Science Center 9-12
  
• Great Sites for Teaching About...Technology and Science
  Best on the Web for teaching about technology and science

Theodore Roosevelt elected President (1904)

• Great Sites for Teaching about…Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
  

First Washington State election in which women could vote (1910)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
  Best on the Web for teaching about women's rights

Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Civil Works Administration (1933)

Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first Black American elected to the U.S. Senate (1966)

• Ten Activities Celebrate Achievements of African Americans!
  With the assistance of the Web, you too can incorporate activities that reflect the positive impact black Americans have had on our nation's history.