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Congratulations 2010 Graduates!! In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened that day by resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777. June 17, 1885 the Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC in 350 pieces that took 4 months to reassemble June 15 1752, Benjamin Franklin proved that lightning is electricity. Summertime!!!! Enjoy a picnic!
Happy Fathers Day! June 23, 1868, Christopher Latham Shole received a patent for an invention he called a Type-Writer. June 16, 1775, George Washington was appointed commander in chief of the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress. Bastille Day is a National holiday in France. It is very much like Independence Day in the United States because it is a celebration of the beginning of a new form of government. July 28, 1858, fingerprints were used as a means of identification for the first time.
Happy birthday America!!! Independence Day is celebrated on July 4, the day the wording of the Declaration was approved by Congress. July 29 1914, first long distance telephone conversation occurred from New York to San Francisco Born on July 12, 1864 George Washington Carver discovered more than three hundred different products derived from the peanut among other great discoveries. Aloha! Grab your Hawaiian shirt because on July 7, 1898 the United States annexed Hawaii. July 15, 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found and gave the first key to the reading of hieroglyphics. On this stone the same inscription was given in three different sets of characters, -the hieroglyphics, the demotic, and the Greek.
One week of summer vacation left! Enjoy! “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Apollo 11 was launched on July 16, 1969 and on July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. July 26, 1775 – The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. In old England the house roofs were thatched and the local dogs and cats slept there to keep warm. During a hard rain they would slip off, therefore it would rain cats and dogs. July 1 1963, the U.S. Postal Service started using 5-digit zip codes and the first adhesive postage stamp was offered for sale in on this same day in 1847.
August 5, 1914, the first electric traffic were installed at the intersection of Euclid Ave. and E. 105th St. in Cleveland, Ohio. The traffic signals were red and green lights on street-corner poles had to be operated manually. August 4, 1916 The United States purchased what is now the U. S. Virgin Islands. August 2, 1610 - Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay. August 3, 1958 - The US Nuclear Submarine Nautilus is the first undersea vessel to reach the Geographic North Pole August 9, 1173 - Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete.
August 10, 1889 - the skeleton of a thirty-six foot long and fifteen-foot high mammoth was found in St. James, Nebraska.  Before being known as the Palmetto State, South Carolina was known as, and had emblazoned on their license plates, the Iodine State because of the large percentages of iodine found in the vegetation growing in the state. 71st anniversary of The Wizard of Oz. The fear of Friday the 13th is called friggatriskaidekaphobia. The word was derived in 1911 and first appeared in a mainstream source in 1953. Back To School!! Have a great year!
Shortly after midnight on August 18, 1961, East German soldiers begin laying down barbed wire and bricks as a barrier between Soviet-controlled East Berlin and the democratic western section of the city. August 19, 1960 - Sputnik 5 was launched with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice and two rats and a variety of plants on board. The spacecraft returned to Earth the next day and all the animals were recovered safely. August 20 1920, the first licensed radio broadcast occurred. August 23, 1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon. August 24 A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash, killing 20,000.
August 25, 2010 – Grand opening of the Old Faithful Visitor Education Center set to coincide with the 94th anniversary of the creation of the National Park Service. August 26, 1920 – The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote. August 27, 1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well. August 30, 30 B.C - Cleopatra, the seventh and most famous queen of ancient Egypt died after being bitten by an asp. August 31 1942 - “Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!” Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ... the caped crusader started on network radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
September 1, 1878 - 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) September 3, 1752 - This day does not exist, nor did the next 10 days. The Gregorian calendar went into effect in Great Britain and its colonies, to correct an accumulated 11 day discrepancy; September 2nd was followed by September 14th. September 6 - Labor Day was made a federal holiday on June 28, 1894 and is celebrated as the end of summer by many Americans. The holiday has been observed on the first Monday in September for over 100 years. Beginning Labor Day and running through the following weekend, the South Carolina Apple Festival celebrates the beginning of apple harvest season in Oconee County, the largest apple-producing area in the state. September 13, 1985 - The Super Mario Bros. video game is released by Nintendo.
September 14, 1716, Boston Light, the first lighthouse in America was put in to service just before sunset on Little Brewster Island at the entrance to the Boston Harbor. The lighthouse is the last remaining manned station in the U.S. today. September 15, 1616 – Ciao! Buen giorno! The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy. On September 17, 1787, the U.S. Constitution was signed by thirty-nine brave men who changed the course of history. September 20, 1633 – Galileo Galilei is tried before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun. September 21, 1989 – Hurricane Hugo made landfall near Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. The word hurricane comes from the Taino Native American word, hurucane, meaning evil spirit of the wind.
September 22 is the first day of Fall!! September 24, 1979 – Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service. September 23, 1846 – Neptune, farthest planet from the sun discovered so far, was discovered by Johann Gottfried Galle September 27, 1825, the first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson's Stockton & Darlington's line in England. The engine "Locomotion No. 1" pulled 34 wagons and 1 solitary coach on its journey of 21 miles from Shildon, via Darlington to Stockton in County Durham. Confucius, born on September 28, 551BC, is probably the most famous Chinese teacher and thinker and his birthday is still celebrated with reverence in several Asian countries.
September 30, 1961 - Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost. September 29, 2010 - World School Milk Day.....Got Milk? October 1, 1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of $825; sorry no CD player, Sony doesn’t launch the first consumer compact disc player until this day in 1982. October 4, 1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore. At first, Thomas Jefferson was on George Washington's right. But after 18 months of carving, Borglum changed plans, dynamited Jefferson off the mountain and put him on Washington's left. It took 14 years to complete. Did you know? Eighty percent of the pumpkin supply in the United States is available in October and that in early colonial times, pumpkins were used as an ingredient for the crust of pies, not the filling.
October 6, 1908, the Ohio Art company, makers of Etch-A-Sketch, was founded by Henry Simon Winzeler.
Nevermore - October 7, 1849 Writer/Poet Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore, Maryland, at the age of 40.
 October 8, 1871...flames spark in the Chicago barn of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, igniting a 2-day blaze that destroyed four square miles of the city. Legend has it that a cow kicked over a lantern in the O'Leary barn, but other theories hold that humans or even a comet may have been responsible for the event.
October 11 - Columbus Day is always celebrated on the second Monday of October. The first recorded celebration of the discovery of America took place in New York City on October 12, 1792 — exactly 300 years after Columbus landed in the New World.
October 12, 1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
October 13, 1983: Ameritech Mobile Communications, LLC provides the first mobile phone service for public use in the United States, also on this day in 2005, Apple introduce new iPod capable of playing video at a resolution of 320x240 starting at $299.00.
 October 15, 1860 - 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln telling him to grow a beard in order to improve his appearance, stating that his face was too thin. She also said that women love beards and would encourage their husbands to vote for him.
October 18 is Alaska Day! The US officially took possession on this day in 1867. However, the American public believed the land to be barren and worthless and dubbed the purchase "Seward's Folly" and "Andrew Johnson's Polar Bear Garden,"
October 19, 1781 - British General Charles Cornwallis formally surrenders 8000 British soldiers at Yorktown, effectively ending the American Revolution.
October 20, 1924: An earthquake rattles most of the state of South Carolina and the surrounding area. The highest intensity was recorded in Pickens, Brevard, Walhalla and Hendersonville.
October 22, 2010 - Teacher Work Day ...no classes.
October 25, 2010 - Parent Conference/Local Inservice...Report Cards...no classes.
October 26, 1861 – The Pony Express officially ceased operations.
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, born in New York City, October 27, 1858.
October 28, 1886 - The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
Have a happy and safe Halloween!
November 1, 1512 - Michelangelo’s painting of the ceiling at the Sistine Chapel was presented to the public. The project took a little over four years to complete and although all the sketches were done by Michelangelo, he did have some help mixing paints and plaster and some painting of the sky areas.
November 4, 1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamen’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
November 7, 2010 - FALL BACK!! Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. ...don't forget to set your clocks back one hour.
November 8, 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays during an experiment at Würzburg University.
November 10, 1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.
November 11 - While those who died are also remembered, Veterans Day is the day set aside to thank and honor ALL those who served honorably in the military - in wartime or peacetime.
November 12, 1946 - The Exchange National Bank of Chicago, Illinois, institutes the first drive in banking service in America.
November 16, 1620, the first corn (maize) was discovered in Provincetown, Mass., by sixteen desperately hungry Pilgrims led by Myles Standish, William Bradford, Stephen Hopkins, and Edward Tilley at a place they named Corn Hill.
A part of American Education Week, ESP Day is Wednesday, November 17, 2010. Celebrating ESP Day is a great way to recognize and acknowledge our hard working education support professionals!
On November 19, 1863, at the dedication of a military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln delivers, in just 272 words, one of the most memorable speeches in American history.
November 22, 1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
November 18, 1865 – Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
Historically, two turkeys are pardoned by the President of the United States every Thanksgiving. The first unofficial presidential pardons were granted to domestic turkeys in 1947, and since then every president has “pardoned” two birds (a presidential turkey and a vice presidential turkey).
Our national holiday stems from the feast held in the autumn of 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag to celebrate the colony's first successful harvest. Happy Thanksgiving!
November 29, 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrated his hand-cranked phonograph that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders. Although Aug. 12, 1877, is often given as the date of this invention, it may have been only at the stage of a sketch, since Edison did not file for the patent until Dec. 24, 1877.
November 30, 1782: Provisional articles of peace are signed in Paris between Britain and the United States, under which Britain recognizes U.S. independence. Forerunner of the Treaty of Paris signed on September 3, 1783.
December 1, 1955 –In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, an incident which makes her a heroine in the civil rights movement for racial equality.
December 2, 1823 - President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"
December 3, 1910, neon lighting, developed by French physicist Georges Claude, made its public debut at the Paris Motor Show. The colored light is produced by passing electrical current through inert gases in a vacuum tube.
December 6, 1884 – The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed. The architect, Robert Mills, was a South Carolinian. He was also responsible for several buildings on the University of South Carolina Horseshoe.
December 7, 1941 – World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the US Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Just 102 days until Spring!.....brrrrr!
December 9, 1965 -"A Charlie Brown Christmas," the first "Peanuts" TV special, debuted on CBS.
December 10, 1951 - Santa Claus and angels were banned in Hungary at Christmas on this date. Pictures of tractors holding gifts would replace Santa Claus and his elves. It was not entirely clear why communist officials became so provoked at Saint Nick, but it seems that they could have used a visit from Marley’s ghost.
December 13, 1972 - Astronaut Gene Cernan climbs into his lunar lander on the moon and prepares to lift off. He is the last man to set foot on the moon.
December 14, 1966 – Dr Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” aired for first time on CBS.
December 15, 2001 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.
December 16, 1773 - Big tea party in Boston harbor...locals welcome!

Wishing you a safe and happy holiday season!
Happy New Year!!
January 4, 1972 - Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP-35, the first scientific handheld calculator and the final step in ending reliance on slide rules among scientists and students alike. The HP-35 was named for its 35 keys, weighed nine ounces, and sold for $395
 January 5, 1933 - construction work on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge began. It was the first in the U.S. to have piers built in open ocean, and also first to span the outer mouth of a major ocean harbour. The chief engineer was Joseph B. Strauss. The length of the main structure of the bridge is 8,940-ft, with towers rising 746-ft above the water and a minimum clearance of 220-ft.
January 6, 1973 - "Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock.
January 7, 1610 – Galileo Galilei observes three of the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them Io, Europa, and Callisto; and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons. He did not discover Ganymede until January 13.
January 12, 2011- make up days for the two snow days will be on President's Day, February 21 and Teacher Workday, March 4.
January 18, 1778 - the English explorer Captain James Cook becomes the first European to discover the Hawaiian Islands when he sails past the island of Oahu. Two days later, he landed on the island of Kauai and named the island group the Sandwich Islands, in honor of John Montague, who was the earl of Sandwich.
January 20, 1885 – L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
January 21, 1954 - The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear powered submarine, was launched at Groton, Connecticut.
January 24, 1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
January 25, 1905, a 3,106-carat diamond is discovered at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa weighing 1.33 pounds, and christened the "Cullinan," it was the largest diamond ever found. It was cut into 9 large diamonds and over 100 smaller ones, the two largest are mounted in the Crown Jewels of England.
January 26, 1988 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's Musical “The Phantom of the Opera” has its first performance on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre in New York and is now the longest running Broadway show in history.
On January 27, 1888, the National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C., for "the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge."
January 28, 1958 – The Lego Company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
January 31, 1958 – The first American satellite, Explorer I, was launched from the Air Force Missile and Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
February 1, 1978 - The first stamp of the U.S. Postal Service's Black Heritage USA series honors Harriet Tubman, famed abolitionist and "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. February is Black History Month, American History Month, and American Heart Month.
Punxsutawney held its first Groundhog Day in the United States in the 1800s. The first official trek to Gobbler's Knob was made on February 2, 1887. It is said that Punxsutawney Phil was named after King Phillip. If he sees his shadows it means 6 more weeks of winter.
February 3, 1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
February 4, 1824 - J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public.
February 7, 1935 – The classic board game Monopoly is invented.
February 8, 1910. The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated .
February 9, 1995 – Space Shuttle astronaut, Bernard A. Harris, Jr. became the first African American to perform a spacewalk.
February 10, 1996 - IBM "Deep Blue" computer defeated chess champion Garry Kasparov in 34 moves though Kasparov went on to win the tournament 3-1 with two draws.
February 11, 1847 – Birth date of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the light bulb, the phonograph and more.
Happy Valentines Day! According to mythology, Cupid is the Roman god of romantic love, the son of Venus. The equivalent of the Greek deity Eros, son of Aphrodite.
February 15, 1820 - Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts. A pioneer in women's rights, she worked tirelessly for woman's right to vote and in 1872 was arrested after voting (illegally) in the presidential election. She was commemorated in 1979 with the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin, thus became the first American woman to have her image on a U.S. coin.
February 16 - On this day in 1923, in Thebes, Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen.
February 17, 1934 - 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn)
February 18, 1735 - The first opera performed in America, known as either "Flora" or "Hob in the Well", was presented in Charleston, SC.
February 21, 2011 - Presidents Day is not the official name of this federal holiday, although there have been several attempts to rename this holiday the legal name is still Washington’s Birthday.
February 22, 1630 - Popcorn was introduced to the English colonists by an Indian named Quadequina who brought it in deerskin bags to meetings between the colonists and tribes as a peace offering.
February 23, 1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo would later win a Pulitzer Prize and become the model for the national USMC War Memorial.
February 24, 1938 - The first nylon bristle toothbrush was made in Arlington, NJ. It was the first time that nylon yarn had been used commercially since being patented by DuPont on February 16, 1937. Previous toothbrushes were made of hog bristles.
February 28 - On this day in 1953, Cambridge University scientists James D. Watson and Frances H.C. Crick announce that they have determined the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing human genes.
March 1, 1961 – 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps. President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps as a new agency within the State Department.
March 2 - "The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." — Dr. Seuss ….Happy Birthday, Dr Seuss!!
March 3, 1931 – The United States officially adopts “The Star-Spangled Banner” as its national anthem over a century after the poem was written by Francis Scott Key.
March 4.1952 - Ernest Hemingway finished what he considered his best novel entitled “The Old Man and the Sea” on this day. This book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953.
March 7, 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention the telephone.
March 8 – 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day, a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday.
March 9, 2011 - World Read Aloud Day.
March 10, 1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
March 11, 1958 - On this day in history an American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, fortunately it was not completely assembled and only caused a large crater with no fatalities….whew!
March 21, 1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.