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Black History Month begins
Poet Langston Hughes born 1902
National Freedom Day (U.S.) 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery was approved 1865
Greensboro Four Anniversary 1945
Toyota Family Literacy Teacher of the Year Award - submission deadline.
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Novelist Ayn Rand born 1905
Inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver Dr. Henry Heimlich born 1920
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First woman physician Elizabeth Blackwell born 1821
Writer Gertrude Stein born 1874.
Scots Indian educator Ranald MacDonald born 1824
American artist Norman Rockwell born 1894.
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Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks born 1913
Aviator Charles Lindbergh born 1902
German theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer born 1906.
 
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Baseball player Hank Aaron born 1934
1917 Constitution of Mexico
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Singer Bob Marley born 1945
Baseball player Babe Ruth born 1895
2012 Christopher Columbus Awards entries due today
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Abolitionist Frederick Douglass born 1817
Novelist Charles Dickens born 1812
Children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder born 1867
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Science fiction author Jules Verne born 1828
Russian scientist and inventor Dmitri Mendeleev born 1834.
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Arthur Ashe became the first black player on the US Davis Cup tennis team 1964
2012 Hispanic Heritage Foundation 12th Annual National Youth Awards Ceremony, Washington, DC
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Novelist and poet Boris Pasternak born 1890
Opera singer Leontyne Price born 1927
2012 Excellence in Summer Learning Award deadline for submissions
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Inventor Thomas Alva Edison born 1847
Inventor's Day
 
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U.S. President Abraham Lincoln born 1809
Naturalist Charles Darwin born 1809
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Pilot who broke the sound barrier Chuck Yeager born 1923
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Inventor Margaret E. Knight born 1838
Happy Valentine's Day
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Women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony born 1820
Physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei born 1564
Explorer Ernest Shackleton born 1874
Educator and President of Argentina Domingo F. Sarmiento born 1811
Social worker Irena Sendler born 1910
2012 Disney Planet Challenge project submission deadline today
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Track Olympic Medalist Cathy Freeman born 1973
Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova born 1881.
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Basketball player Michael Jordan born 1963
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Novelist Toni Morrison born 1931
 
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Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus born 1473
USSR launched the Mir space station into Earth orbit 1986
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Photographer Ansel Adams born 1902
John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit Earth 1962
2012 Petra Foundation Award deadline for nominations
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Classical guitarist Andres Segovia born 1893
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First U.S. President George Washington born 1732
Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay born 1892
Composer Frederic Chopin born 1810
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Educator and black activist W.E.B. DuBois born 1868
Johannes Gutenberg, German inventor of the printing press, printed the first book (the Bible) 1455
Composer George Frederick Handel born 1685
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Co-author of Grimm's Fairy Tales Wilhelm Karl Grimm born 1786
Painter Winslow Homer born 1836
Baseball player Honus Wagner born 1874
Inventor and businessman Steve Jobs born 1955
2012 AFI SilverDocs deadline for film submissions today
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Painter Pierre-August Renoir born 1841
 
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Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named first US poet laureate 1984
Author Victor Hugo born 1802
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Jazz musician Dexter "LTD" Gordon born 1923
Opera singer Marian Anderson born 1897
Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born 1807
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Humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi born 1928
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Pulse of the Planet Kid's Science Challenge deadline for entries
 		      
 
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