Educators' Calendar: United States

February 2024

28th January

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29th January

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30th January

30

31st January

31

1st February

1

2nd February

2

3rd February

3

28th January

29th January

30th January

31st January

1st February

2024 Winter Olympics End

National Freedom Day

Robinson Crusoe Day

Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster (2003)

2nd February

World Wetlands Day

Girls & Women in Sports Day

Mexican-American War Ended (1848)

3rd February

15th Amendment Signed (Black Americans Right to Vote) (1868)

4th February

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5th February

5

6th February

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7th February

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8th February

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9th February

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10th February

10

4th February

World Cancer Day

First U.S. Presidential Election (1789)

Confederacy Formed (1861)

Activist Rosa Parks's Birthday (1913)

5th February

National Weatherperson's Day

Baseball Player Hank Aaron's Birthday (1934)

6th February

Baseball Player Babe Ruth's Birthday (1895)

Queen Elizabeth II Crowned (1952)

Feb. 6-10
School Counseling Week

7th February

Love Your Robot Day

Author Charles Dickens's Birthday (1812)

Tattooing Machine Introduced (1875)

8th February

Kite Day

Author Jules Verne's Birthday (1828)

Russo-Japanese War Began (1904)

NASDAQ Debuted (1971)

9th February

Toothache Day

National Weather Service Established (1870)

Hershey's^® Chocolate Founded (1894)

10th February

Chinese New Year

Umbrella Day

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

11th February

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12th February

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13th February

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14th February

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15th February

15

16th February

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17th February

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11th February

Super Bowl Sunday

Steamboat Patented (1809)

Inventor Thomas Edison's Birthday (1847)

First Weekly Weather Report (1878)

Nelson Mandela Freed (1990)

12th February

Red Hand Day

Naturalist Charles Darwin's Birthday (1809)

Pres. Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (1809)

NAACP Founded (1909)

13th February

Mardi Gras

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

Strauss's Blue Danube Premiered (1867)

14th February

Valentine's Day

Read to Your Child Day

Oregon Admission Day (1859)

Arizona Admission Day (1912)

15th February

Susan B. Anthony Day

Scientist Galileo Galilei's Birthday (1564)

Muhammad Ali Lost Boxing Title (1978)

16th February

World Read Aloud Day

King Tutankhamen's Tomb Opened (1923)

Nylon Patented (1937)

Fidel Castro Became Leader of Cuba (1959)

17th February

National PTA Founders Day

Last Classic VW Beetle Assembled (1972)

18th February

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20th February

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21st February

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22nd February

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23rd February

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24th February

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18th February

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Published (1885)

Pluto Discovered (1930)

19th February

Presidents' Day

Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus's Birthday (1473)

FDR Authorized Japanese Internment (1942)

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

20th February

Metropolitan Museum of Art Opened in NYC (1872)

"Batman & Robin" Comic Debuted (1944)

21st February

International Mother Language Day

Peace Symbol Designed (1958)

Malcolm X Assassinated (1965)

22nd February

World Thinking Day

Pres. George Washington's Birthday (1732)

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

Woolworth Opened First "Five Cent Store" (1879)

23rd February

Santa Anna Began Siege of the Alamo (1836)

The Tootsie Roll Debuted (1896)

24th February

Author Wilhelm Carl Grimm's Birthday (1786)

First Uranus "Flyby" by Voyager 2 (1986)

25th February

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26th February

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27th February

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28th February

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29th February

29

1st March

1

2nd March

2

25th February

Maha Shivratri

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

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

26th February

Tell a Fairy Tale Day

Author Victor Hugo's Birthday (1802)

Grand Canyon National Park Established (1919)

Feb. 26-32
Eating Disorders Awareness Week

27th February

Polar Bear Day

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

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

28th February

DNA Discovered (1953)

Computer Core Memory Patented (1956)

29th February

1st March

2nd March

Month-Long Holidays and Events

Bird Feeding Month

National Heart Month

Black History Month

American Heart Month

Children's Dental Health Month