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Feb 2009
1

National Freedom Day

Robinson Crusoe Day

Super Bowl Sunday

First U.S. Supreme Court Convened (1790)

2

Groundhog Day

Mexican War Ended (1848)

Feb. 2-6

National School Counseling Week

3

Johann Gutenberg Died (1468)

15th Amendment Signed (1868)

4

National Girls & Women in Sports Day

First U.S. Presidential Election (1789)

Confederacy Formed (1861)

Rosa Parks's Birthday (1913)

5

National Weatherperson's Day

Hank Aaron's Birthday (1934)

6

Babe Ruth's Birthday (1895)

100 Billionth Crayola® Crayon Produced (1996)

7

Love Your Robot Day

Charles Dickens's Birthday (1812)

Tattooing Machine Introduced (1875)

8

Jules Verne's Birthday (1828)

Russo-Japanese War Began (1904)

NASDAQ Debuted (1971)

9

Toothache Day

National Weather Service Established (1870)

Hershey's® Chocolate Founded (1894)

10

Umbrella Day

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

11

Steamboat Patented (1809)

Thomas Edison's Birthday (1847)

First Weekly Weather Report (1878)

12

Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (1809)

Charles Darwin's Birthday (1809)

NAACP Founded (1909)

13

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

14

Valentine's Day

Ferris Wheel Day

Read to Your Child Day

Oregon Admission Day (1859)

Arizona Admission Day (1912)

15

Susan B. Anthony Day

Galileo Galilei's Birthday (1564)

Muhammad Ali Lost Boxing Title (1978)

16

Presidents' Day

King Tutankhamen's Tomb Opened (1923)

Nylon Patented (1937)

Fidel Castro Became Leader of Cuba (1959)

17

National PTA Founders Day

Last Classic VW Beetle Assembled (1972)

18

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Published (1885)

Pluto Discovered (1930)

19

Nicolaus Copernicus's Birthday (1473)

Phonograph Patented (1878)

FDR Authorized Japanese Internment (1942)

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

20

Metropolitan Museum of Art Opened in NYC (1872)

"Batman & Robin" Comic Debuted (1944)

21

National Sticky Bun Day

First Phone Book Issued (1878)

Malcolm X Assassinated (1965)

22

George Washington's Birthday (1732)

Spain Ceded Florida to the U.S (1819)

"Woolworth Opened the First ""Five Cent Store""" (1879)

Feb. 22-28

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week

23

Santa Anna Began Siege of the Alamo (1836)

The Tootsie Roll Debuted (1896)

First Animal Cloning (1997)

24

Mardi Gras

Flag Day in Mexico

Wilhelm Carl Grimm's Birthday (1786)

First Uranus "Flyby" (1986)

25

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

Glacier Bay Proclaimed a National Monument (1925)

26

Tell a Fairy Tale Day

Levi Strauss's Birthday (1829)

Grand Canyon National Park Established (1919)

27

Polar Bear Day

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Birthday (1807)

28

DNA Discovered (1953)

Computer Core Memory Patented (1956)


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