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Stand For Children Day
gives children a voice
2012 MY HERO Short Film Festival ~ deadline for submissions August 1, 2012
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German film director and silhouette animator Lotte Reininger born 1899.
African American jazz musician Valaida Snow born 1904.
2012 Peace Pals International Art Competition entries due June 30th
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Singer and songwriter Curtis Mayfield born 1942
American born African American civil entertainer, civil rights leader and freedom fighter Josephine Baker born 1906.
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First Pulitzer Prizes awarded in 1917.
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Children's author Richard Scarry born 1919
World Environment Day
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Painter Diego Velazquez born 1599
Poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin born 1799
Children's rights activist Marian Wright Edelman born 1939
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Painter Paul Gauguin born 1848
Pediatric physician Virginia Apgar born 1909
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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright born 1867
World Oceans Day
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Actor Michael J. Fox born 1961.
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First African American to win an Academy Award, Hattie McDaniel born 1865.
First female architect in China (and aunt of Maya Lin) Lin Huiyin born 1904.
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Undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau born 1910
First woman elected to Congress Jeannette Rankin born 1880
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Holocaust victim Anne Frank born 1929
World Day Against Child Labor
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Poet William Butler Yeats born 1865
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Author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe born 1811
Olympic speed skater Eric Heiden born 1958
Scientist Thomas Young born 1773
Photographer Margaret Bourke-White born 1904.
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Rwandan humanitarian Paul Rusesabagina born 1954.
Magna Carta signed at Runnymede, England, in 1215.
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American scientist and Nobel Laureate in Medicine Barbara McClintock born 1902.
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Tennis player Venus Williams born 1980
Theologian John Wesley born 1703
UN World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
Father's Day
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Mountain climber and explorer George Mallory born 1886
Singer and songwriter Paul McCartney born 1942
Susan B. Anthony fined for attempting to vote for President in 1872
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Statue of Liberty arrives 1885
Baseball player Lou Gehrig born 1903
Philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal born 1623
Juneteenth celebrates African American Freedom
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UN World Refugee Day
International Surfing Day raising awareness about the state of our oceans
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Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre born 1905
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German writer Erich Maria Remarque born 1898.
American writer Anne Morrow Lindberg born 1906.
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Father of computer science and artificial intelligence Alan Turing born 1912.
Father of the Internet Vint Cerf born 1943
UN Public Service Day
Olympic sprinter Wilma Rudolph born 1940
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Boxer Jack Dempsey born 1895
Challenger astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka born 1946
ISTE 2012 Conference June 24-27 in San Diego
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GUEST- Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic female U.S. Supreme Court Justice was born in 1954.
Novelist George Orwell born 1903
Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi born in 1852.
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UN International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
Olympic track and field star Babe Didrikson Zaharias born 1914
Novelist Pearl S. Buck born 1892
Cyclist Greg LeMond born 1961
ISTE 2012 - MY HERO Presentation "Heralding Heroes: The Impact and Implications of Inspirational Media" Time: 12:15pm-1:15pm PDT
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Author Helen Keller born 1880
Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar born 1872
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Painter Peter Paul Rubens born 1577
Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau born 1712
Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus born 1940
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Happy 112th birthday Antoine de Saint-Exupery born 1900.
Social worker, reformer and first woman to head a U.S. federal bureau Julia Clifford Lathrop born 1858.
Solar astronomer George Ellery Hale born 1868.
African American photographer James Van Der Zee born 1886.
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Singer, actress and civil rights activist Lena Horne born 1917.
2012 Peace Pals International - Deadline for 15th Annual Arts Exhibition & Awards
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