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TODAY IN HISTORY
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From the Library of Congress:
JANUARY
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., twentieth-century America's most compelling and effective civil rights leader, was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Continue reading.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., twentieth-century America's most compelling and effective civil rights leader, was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Continue reading.
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The Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784, officially establishing the United States as an independent and sovereign nation. Continue reading.
On January 13, 1833, President Andrew Jackson wrote Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority. Continue reading.
On January 13, 1833, President Andrew Jackson wrote Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority. Continue reading.
Sophie Tucker was born Sonya Kalish to a Russian-Jewish family on January 13. Continue reading.
On January 12, 1777 Padre Thomas Peña, under the direction of Padre Junipero Serra, officially founded Mission Santa Clara de Asis, the eighth of California's twenty-one missions. Continue reading.
Alexander Hamilton, the first treasury secretary of the United States, was born on January 11 in either 1755 or 1757, on the Caribbean island of Nevis in the British West Indies. Continue reading.
Alice Paul, chief strategist for the militant wing of the suffrage movement and author of the Equal Rights Amendment, was born on January 11, 1885 in Moorestown, New Jersey. Continue reading.
On January 10, 1861, delegates to the Florida Convention in Tallahassee voted to secede from the United States of America. Continue reading.
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On January 9, 1788, Connecticut ratified the Constitution, becoming the fifth state to do so. Continue reading.
The Fisk School, forerunner of Fisk University, convened classes for the first time on January 9, 1866, in former Union army barracks in Nashville, Tennessee. Continue reading.
On January 8, 1815, Major General Andrew Jackson led a small, poorly-equipped army to victory against eight thousand British troops at the Battle of New Orleans. Continue reading.
Millard Fillmore, thirteenth president of the United States, was born in Locke (now Summerhill), New York, on January 7, 1800. Continue reading.
Famed contralto Marian Anderson made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City on January 7, 1955. She was the first African American to perform with the company. Continue reading.
Novelist, folklorist, dramatist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston wrote in her memoir, Dust Tracks on a Road, that she was born on January 7, 1891, in Eatonville, Florida. Recent scholarship indicates differently. Continue reading.
On January 6, 1945, George Herbert Walker Bush, on leave from active duty in World War II, married former Smith College student Barbara Pierce. Continue reading.
On January 6, 1993, Dizzy Gillespie, the last of the primary originators of Be-Bop jazz, died in Englewood, New Jersey. Continue reading.
On January 5, 1949, President Harry Truman used his State of the Union address to recommend measures including national health insurance, raising the minimum wage, strengthening the position of organized labor, and guaranteeing the civil rights of all Americans. Continue reading.
On January 4, 1948, the British colony of Burma, now Myanmar, became an independent nation after more than sixty years of colonial rule. Continue reading.
Political and social reformer Lucretia Coffin Mott was born on January 3, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts to a Quaker family. Continue reading.
On January 2, 1893, Frederick Douglass delivered an address at the dedication of the Haitian Pavilion at the World’s Columbian Exposition located in Jackson Park in Chicago. Continue reading.
On January 2, 1933, the 5th Marine Regiment, United States Marines Corps, withdrew from Nicaragua. Continue reading.
On January 1, 1892, a fifteen-year old Irish girl named Annie Moore became the first of the more than twelve million immigrants who would pass through the doors of the Ellis Island Immigration Station in its sixty-two years of operation. Continue reading.
The Leonard and Felicia Bernstein family sent New Year’s Day, January 1, greeting cards to extended family and friends during the holiday season. Continue reading.
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From Ditch that Textbook:
Copy Link to Highlight - If you want to send students or colleagues to a specific spot on a website in Chrome just highlight the text then right click to highlight link to text. This creates a link to that exact spot when it's clicked.
Student Activity Journal
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Create one of these on YOUR Social Studies Content! Your students will LOOOVE it!
This could easily be transformed into a choice board and used with other types of writing, i.e. primary and secondary sources, picture books, etc.
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