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Birthdays
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Deaths
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- 1917 Robert Lowell (Pulitzer Prize-winning poet)
- 1810 Frédéric Chopin, Poland, composer/pianist
- 1837 William Dean Howells
(author: Life of Lincoln, A Modern Instance;
editor: Atlantic Monthly; columnist: Harper's Monthly)
- 1927 Harry Belafonte (singer)
- 1880 Lytton Strachey, English biographer and critic
- 1914 Ralph Ellison
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- 1962 Julio Camba, escritor y periodista español.
- 1952 Mariano Azuela, novelista mexicano.
- 1906 José María de Pereda, novelista español.
- 1633 George Herbert, 39, English poet
- 1619 Thomas Campion, 53, English physician/composer/poet
- 1991 Edwin H Land, 81, in Cambridge, Massachusetts , inventor of polarizing
filters and Polaroid instant photography
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- 1904 Theodore Seuss Geisel “Dr. Seuss”,
- 1931 Tom Wolfe
- 1914 John Irving
- 1847 Alexander Graham Bell
- 1930 David Herbert Lawrence
- 1931 Mikhail Gorbachev
- 1824 Smetana, Bedrich
- 1900 Weill, Kurt
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- 1855 Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia
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3 |
- 1831 George M. Pullman (inventor, railroad sleeping
car; industrialist:(Pullman Palace Car Company)
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- 1703 Robert Hooke, mathematician, scientific genius
- 1983 Arthur Koestler
- 1706 Pachelbel, Johann
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4 |
- 1678 Antonio Vivaldi, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer
- 1394 Prince Henry the Navigator
- 1923 Patrick Moore, England, astronomer/writer
- 1934 Jane van Lawick-Goodall, ethnologist/chimp expert
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- 1193 Saladin
- 1888 Amos Bronson Alcott
- 1977: 1541 people in earthquake in Romania
- 1983 Hergé [Georges Rémi], 75, Belgian cartoonist (Rin-Tin-Tin)
- 1992 Christian K Nelson, 92, inventor (Eskimo Pie)
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5 |
- 1908 Rex Harrison (actor)
- 1512 Gerardus Mercator The innovator of the Mercator Projection
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- 1953 Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev composer
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6 |
- 1928Gabriel García Márquez, 1928
- 1885Ring W. Lardner, 1885
- 1475 Michelangelo
- 1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- 1619 Cyrano de Bergerac
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- 1982: Ayn Rand
- 1836 Davy Crockett
- 1888 Louisa May Alcott
- 1900 Gottlieb Daimler
- 1932 John Philip Sousa, US composer
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7 |
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- 203 Perpetua died (celebrated as her Feast Day in Carthage)
- 1274 Thomas Aquinas
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8 |
- 1911 Hovhaness, Alan
- 1931 John McPhee
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- 1969 Berlioz, Hector
- 1951 The Honeymoon Killers (Martha Beck & Raymond
Fernandez) die in electric chair
- 1887 Henry Ward Beecher
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- 1918 Mickey Spillane
- 1934 Yuri Gagarin (astronaut)
- 1943 Bobby Fischer
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- 1895 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (Masochism)
- 1997 Terry Nation, writer (Dr Who, Blake 7)
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10 |
James Herriot, 1916
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1913: Harriet Tubman |
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- 1952 Douglas Adams
- 1950 Bobby McFerrin (singer)
- 1931 Rupert Murdoch
- 1596 Isaac Elsevier book publisher
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- 1955 Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist
- 1970 Erle Stanley Gardner
- 1972 Fredric Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home)
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- 1922 Jack Kerouac
- 1928 Edward Albee
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1945 Anne Frank, diarist |
13 |
- 1911 L. Ron Hubbard
- 1936 Clarence Nash, animation voice (Donald Duck)
- 1943 Stephen Vincent Benet
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- 1906: Susan B. Anthony
- 1619 Richard Burbage English actor (Shakespeare)
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14 |
- 1879 Albert Einstein
- 1681 Telemann, Georg Philipp
- 1804 Strauss Sr., Johann
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1471 Sir Thomas Malory |
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- 0076 Hadrian, Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall)
- 1961 Fabio [Lanzoni], Italy, romance novels model
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0044 BCE: Julius Cæsar assassinated in Roman Senate
in the Portico of the Theater of Pompey |
16 |
- 1926 Jerry Lewis (actor, comedian)
- 1906 Henny Youngman
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- 0037 Tiberius Claudius Nero, emperor of Rome
- 1882 Charles R Darwin
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17 |
- 1882 Pearl Buck
- 1846: Kate Greenaway
- 1919 Nat "King" Cole
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- 0180 Antonius Marcus Aurelius [Marcus Verus], Emperor of Rome
- 1992 Grace Stafford Lantz, cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker)
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- 1932 John Updike
- 1844 Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich
- 1927 George Plimpton
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- 1584 Ivan IV the terrible, Russian tsar
- 1986 Bernard Malamud US writer
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- Nikolai Gogol, 1809
- Irving Wallace, 1916
- 1848 Wyatt Earp
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1413 King Henry IV of England |
20 |
- 1928 Fred "Mr." Rogers
- 1922 Ray Goulding, comedian (Bob & Ray)
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21 |
- 1908 Louis L'Amour
- 1905: Phyllis McGinley
- 1685 Bach, Johann Sebastian
- 1839 Mussorgski, Modest
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1936 Glazunov, Alexander |
22 |
- 1948 Andrew Lloyd Weber
- 1931 William Shatner
- 1887 Chico Marx
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1832 J W Goethe |
23 |
- 1857: Fannie M. Farmer (cookbook author)
- 1912 Wernher Von Braun
- 1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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- 1874 Harry Houdini
- 1494 Georgius Agricola
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1603: Queen Elizabeth I of England |
25 |
- 1925: Flannery O'Connor
- 1867 Arturo Toscanini (composer)
- 1934: Gloria Steinem
- 1947 Elton John
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- 1911: 146 immigrant women, in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
- 1918 Debussy, Claude
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- 1931 Leonard Nimoy
- 1914 Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams
- 1930: Sandra Day O'Connor
- 1874 Robert Frost
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- 1827 Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1923: Sarah Bernhardt
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27 |
- 1813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
- 1914 Budd Schulberg, novelist (On the Waterfront)
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- 1910 Alexander E Agassiz US businessman/biologist/geologist
- 1968 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, dies in plane
crash at 34
- 1625 James I Stuart king of Scotland
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1868 Maxim Gorki |
- 1881 Mussorgski, Modest
- 1943 Rachmaninoff, Sergey
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29 |
1902 Sir William Walton |
- 1982 Orff, Carl
- 1788 Charles Wesley, hymn writer
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30 |
- 1746 Francisco Goya
- 1853 Vincent Van Gogh
- 1135 Maimonides [Moses Ben Maimon], Còrodoba,
Spain, philosopher/physician
- 1672 Peter I "the Great" Romanov great tsar of Russia
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1840 George (Beau) Brummell, Dandy |
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- 1926 John Fowles
- 1932 John Jakes
- 1596 Rene Descartes
- 1732 Haydn, Franz Joseph
- 1621 Andrew Marvell, poet (To His Coy Mistress)
- 1809 Edward FitzGerald (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
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- 1855: Charlotte Brontë
- 1631 John Donne, Metaphysical poet
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Saints
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Events
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| 1 |
St. David's Day (Wales)
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1961 The Peace Corps is established
1872 Yellowstone Park established
1692 Salem Witch Hunt Begins
1790 US Congress authorizes the first US Census.
1941 W47NV in Nashville, Tennessee, which had received the first commercial
license for an FM radio station, begins operations
Ancient Rome: celebration
of the Matronalia Festival, a feast of Juno
Casimir Pulaski Day
Return the Borrowed Books Week (US)
Baba Marta (Bulgaria)
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St. Theodore
St. Chad's Day
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1836 Texas independence
proclaimed
1946 Ho Chi Minh elected President of Vietnam
First Festival of Vesta (Roman)
NEA's Read Across America Day |
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1875 Carmen, Georges Bizet opera, premieres in Paris.
1873 US Congress bans mailing obscene materials.
Doll's Festival (Japan)
If Pets Had Thumbs Day
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Wenceslas, king, martyr |
1902 The American Automobile Association is founded
1881 - Holmes & Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet," 1st case
together
1861 - President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office
1837 - City of Chicago incorporates
1791 - Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
1152 Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king |
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Timothy, apostle, martyr |
10th Annual Honolulu Festival (March 5th-7th)
1922 - "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin
1836 Mexico attacks
Alamo
1770 - Boston Massacre
1616 - Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden
index
Celebration of Isis (North
African)
Grand re-opening of Las Vegas' legendary Golden Nugget Casino
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1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military
academy
Mars' Day (Roman)
Guam : Magellan Day/Discovery Day (1521)
Mendicino Village Whale Festival
(California)
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Thomas Aquinas, confessor |
1996 - 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
1939 - Glamour magazine begins publishing
1912 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
Purim (Sundown 7th through sundown 8th)
Hola Mohalla (Sikh)
Girl Scout Week (US)
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John (of God), confessor |
1972 - 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
1917 - Russian revolution breaks out [OS=Feb 24]
1858 Leoncavallo's opera "I Pagliacci" is
produced (Naples)
Commonwealth Day
International Working Women's Day
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Frances (of Rome), widow |
1961 - Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
1959 - Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted
1858 - Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
1796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
Amerigo Vespucci Day (1451)
Celebration of Aphrodite and Adonis (Greek)
Marie Curie Daffodil Day : Marie Curie Cancer Care (United Kingdom)
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Mary Magdalene (Conversion) |
1975 - Dog spectacles patented in England
1876 - 1st telephone call made
1302 Dante Alighieri condemned to death
Holi (Indian)
Hypatia's Day (Greek)
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John the Baptist (Invention of his head) |
1669 Mount Etna erupts
1302 Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
World Culture Day (in Leap years)
Johnny Appleseed Day
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| 12 |
St. Gregory |
1365 University of Vienna founded
1789 US Post Office established
Girl Scouts Day
17th Mariposa Storytelling Festival (California)
No Smoking Day (United Kingdom) |
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1639 Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
1634 Académie Française opens
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| 14 |
Saint Matilda of Saxony, queen of Germany
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1936 - Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US
govt, publishes 1st issue
New Year's Day (Sikh) Nanakshahi Era 536 begins
Ashura'
(Islamic)
National Potato Chip Day
National Pi Day
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Longinus, martyr |
1892 - 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)
National Holiday (Hungary)
International Brain Awareness Week
Save the Florida Panther Day
Ides of March
Hana Matsuri (Japanese)
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1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
Jammy
Awards show in New York City
Dionysos' Festival (Greek)
Bacchus' Day (Roman)
Freedom of Information Day (US)
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1804 Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell" premieres
1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
Doctor's Day (USA) |
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St. Edward the Martyr (Anglo-Saxon)
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1930 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh
Crochet Week
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| 19 |
Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
1628 - Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen
1702 - James II's daughter Anne Stuart becomes queen of England
1951 - Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny," published
Athena's Day (Greek)
Minerva's Day (Roman)
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Cuthbert, bishop (of Lindisfarne), confessor |
1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin
1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
First day of spring
Ostara (Wiccan)
Ala Festival (Nigerian)
Iduna's Day (Norse)
Spring Harvest Festival (Egyptian)
Anonymous Giving Week (US)
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| 21 |
Benedict, abbot (of Montecassino) |
1413 Henry V crowned King of England
World Poetry Day
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Human Rights Day (South Africa)
Indian New Year’s Day
Naw-Ruz
(Baha’I)
Mothering Sunday (UK)
Feast of San Gregorio (Mexican)
Día de Nacimiento de Benito Juárez - Birthday of Benito Juárez
(Mexico)
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| 22 |
Basil (of Ancyra) |
1457 Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book
World Water Day
James T. Kirk's Birthday
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| 23 |
Sophia, virgin, martyr |
1917 - Launching of USS New Mexico, first dreadnought with turboelectric
drive
1743 George Frideric Händel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres
in London
World Meteorological Day, a UN observance
Tulip Shell Snail Day
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| 24 |
Gabriel, the archangel |
Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival (Santa Clarita, Calif.)
24th-28th
World Tuberculosis Day
National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day
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1306 Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland
Lighting ceremony of the Olympic Flame in Ancient Olympia (Greece)
Greek Independence Day
Pecan Day
Feast of the Annunciation (Christian)
Michigan State University AWP Book Fair
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| 26 |
Dismas (the Good Thief) |
1871 Paris Commune founded
1920, "This Side of Paradise" by
F. Scott Fitzgerald published
1924 Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" in London
Fifth Annual Virginia Festival of the Book Publisher's Days (26th-27th)
Illinois
Authors Book Fair
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| 27 |
John Damascene |
1914 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
1997 39 cult memebers in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)
WHAKATAETAE
MAORI SONG & DANCE COMPETITION
THE 17TH GREAT HAWAIIAN
RUBBER DUCKIE RACE & FESTIVAL
Start of National Cherry Blossom Festival
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| 28 |
John Capistrano |
1881 - Greatest Show On Earth was formed by PT Barnum & James
A Bailey
1922 - 1st microfilm device introduced
1979 - Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pa (no deaths)
Birthday of Kwan Yin (Chinese)
Pallas' Day (Greek)
World Championship Crawfish Etouffee Cook-off
(Eunice, Louisiana)
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St. Mark
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1815 Jane Austen completes her novel Emma
1879 Tschaikovski's opera "Yevgeni Onegin" premieres in Moscow
National Mom & Pop Business Owner's Day |
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1932 - Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic
1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)
1778 - Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath
Id-al-Adha
(Islam)
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1492
Edict expelling Jews from Spain issued
1988 Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for Beloved
1992 USS Missouri (BB-63), the last active American battleship, is decommissioned.
Cesar Chavez Day (California)
Bunsen Burner Day |
