All School Guide

Each year our calendars are filled with holidays and important dates, and it is important for us to know the historical and cultural backgrounds for each one. This calendar lists some of the significant dates as they will be observed in 2010 and links to important information about each one.

If the date changes each year, that information is noted as well.

January

• January 1 – Emancipation Proclamation Anniversary
• January 5 – George Washington Carver’s Death
• January 17 – World Religion Day
• January 18 (observed on the 3^rd Monday of January each year in U.S.A.) – Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday
• January 19 – Robert E. Lee’s Birthday

February

• February 2 – Groundhog Day
• February 14 – Frederick Douglas Day
• February 14 – Valentines Day
• February 15 (observed on the 3^rd Monday of February each year in U.S.A.) – Presidents’ Day

March

• March 8 – International Women’s Day
• March 10 – Harriet Tubman’s Death
• March 14 – Albert Einstein’s Birthday
• March 17 – St. Patrick’s Day
• March 23 – National Energy Education Day

April

• April 1 – April Fool’s Day
• April 2 (always the Friday before Easter in the West) – Good Friday
• April 4 (observed on the Sunday after the first full moon on or after the day of the vernal equinox in the West each year) – Easter Sunday
• April 12 – First Man in Space
• April 15 – Sinking of the Titanic
• April 21 – Holocaust Remembrance Day
• April 22 – Earth Day

May

• May 5 – Cinco de Mayo
• May 5 – First American in Space
• May 8 – V-E Day
• May 9 (observed on the 2^nd Sunday in May each year) – Mother’s Day
• May 10 – Transcontinental Railroad Completed
• May 20–21 – Lindbergh Flight
• May 31 – Memorial Day

June

• June 6 – D-Day
• June 14 – Flag Day
• June 20 (observed on the 3^rd Sunday in June in the U.S.A. each year) – Father’s Day
• June 28 – Treaty of Versailles

July

• July 4 – Independence Day
• July 20 – First Man on the Moon
• July 26 (observed on the 4^th Sunday in July in the U.S.A.) – Parents’ Day

August

• August 5 – First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Completed
• August 14 – V-J Day
• August 15 – Panama Canal Opens
• August 26 – Nineteenth Amendment Ratified

September

• September 3 – Treaty of Paris
• September 6 – Labor Day
• September 11 – September 11^th Terrorist Attacks
• September 16 – Mayflower Day
• September 17 – Constitution Day

October

• October 12 – Columbus Day
• October 24 – United Nations Day
• October 31 – Halloween

November

• November 11 – Veterans Day
• November 12 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton Birthday
• November 19 – The Gettysburg Address
• November 25 (observed on the 4^th Thursday of November in the U.S.A.) – Thanksgiving Day

December

• December 6 – Thirteenth Amendment Ratified
• December 7 – Attack on Pearl Harbor
• December 17 – First Airplane Flight
• December 25 – Christmas