February 2012 Educators' Calendar

Girls & Women in Sports Day

National Freedom Day

Robinson Crusoe Day

Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster (2003)

Groundhog Day

World Wetlands Day

Mexican-American War Ended (1848)

15th Amendment Signed (1868)

World Cancer Day

First U.S. Presidential Election (1789)

Confederacy Formed (1861)

Rosa Parks's Birthday (1913)

National Weatherperson's Day

Super Bowl Sunday

Hank Aaron's Birthday (1934)

Babe Ruth's Birthday (1895)

Queen Elizabeth II Crowned (1952)

School Counseling Week

World Orphan Week

Love Your Robot Day

Charles Dickens's Birthday (1812)

Tattooing Machine Introduced (1875)

Jules Verne's Birthday (1828)

Russo-Japanese War Began (1904)

NASDAQ Debuted (1971)

Toothache Day

National Weather Service Established (1870)

Hershey's^® Chocolate Founded (1894)

Umbrella Day

Treaty of Paris Signed Ending French and Indian War (1763)

Steamboat Patented (1809)

Thomas Edison's Birthday (1847)

First Weekly Weather Report (1878)

Nelson Mandela Freed (1990)

Red Hand Day

Charles Darwin's Birthday (1809)

Pres. Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (1809)

NAACP Founded (1909)

First Public School Founded in U.S. (1635)

Strauss's Blue Danube Premiered (1867)

Valentine's Day

Read to Your Child Day

Oregon Admission Day (1859)

Arizona Admission Day (1912)

Susan B. Anthony Day

Scientist Galileo Galilei's Birthday (1564)

Muhammad Ali Lost Boxing Title (1978)

King Tutankhamen's Tomb Opened (1923)

Nylon Patented (1937)

Fidel Castro Became Leader of Cuba (1959)

National PTA Founders Day

Last Classic VW Beetle Assembled (1972)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Published (1885)

Pluto Discovered (1930)

Nicolaus Copernicus's Birthday (1473)

Phonograph Patented (1878)

FDR Authorized Japanese Internment (1942)

U.S. Marines Went Ashore at Iwo Jima (1945)

Presidents' Day

Maha Shivratri

Metropolitan Museum of Art Opened in NYC (1872)

"Batman & Robin" Comic Debuted (1944)

Mardi Gras

International Mother Language Day

Peace Symbol Designed (1958)

Malcolm X Assassinated (1965)

World Thinking Day

Pres. George Washington's Birthday (1732)

Spain Ceded Florida to the U.S. (1819)

Woolworth Opened First "Five Cent Store" (1879)

Santa Anna Began Siege of the Alamo (1836)

The Tootsie Roll Debuted (1896)

Wilhelm Carl Grimm's Birthday (1786)

First Uranus "Flyby" by Voyager 2 (1986)

First African-American Elected to U.S. Senate (1870)

Glacier Bay (Alaska) Proclaimed a National Monument (1925)

Tell a Fairy Tale Day

Author Victor Hugo's Birthday (1802)

Grand Canyon National Park Established (1919)

Eating Disorders Awareness Week

Polar Bear Day

15th Recorded Passage of Halley's Comet (837)

Poet H.W. Longfellow's Birthday (1807)

DNA Discovered (1953)

Computer Core Memory Patented (1956)

Leap Day

First Salem Witchcraft Accusations (1692)