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FEBRUARY HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

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February Observances: poster links resource links
African American /
Black History Month		 Black History posters Patchwork of African American Life Lessons
National History Day history posters National History Day Org
AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month eye posters Prevent Blindness
American Heart Month cardiac system posters American Heart Association
Bird/Wild Bird Feeding Month birds posters Birdfeeding Organization
Cherry Month - Oh, George!! botany posters Cherry Marketing Association
Children's Dental Health Month teeth posters American Dental Association
Library Lovers Month literature posters Library Support Net
February Holidays
Feb 2 - Candlemas - midpoint between Winter Solstice & Spring Equinox candle poster “If Candlemas Day is bright and clear, There'll be two winters in the year,” Scottish Rhyme
Feb 2 - Groundhog Day - see Candlemas groundhog poster If the groundhog sees his shadow we will have six more weeks of winter. Punxsatawney Groundhog Club
Feb 14 - Valentine's Day Valentine's posters Valentine's Day Lesson Plans
2-14-2010- Chinese Lunar New Year
(2009 is the Year of the Tiger, 2010 - Rabbit) (2-3-2011; 1-23-2012; 2-10-2013; 1-31-2014)		 China posters Chinese New Year Traditions
Feb. 15, 2010 - President's Day - Celebrate 3rd Monday Presidents posters Presidents Day
Feb. 16, 2010 - Mardi Gras Day
French for “Fat Tuesday” & Shrove Tuesday, (Pancake Day) - always 46 days before Easter.
(3-8-2011; 2-21-2012; 2-12-2013; 3-4-2014)		 Mardi Gras posters Last Day of Carnival before the fasting season of Lent. Mardi Gras (Fr.) Famous Carnivals are celebrated in New Orleans, Rio de Janiero, Nice and Cologne.
Feb 17, 2010 - Ash Wednesday -
7th Wed. before Easter 		Lent posters
Christianity posters		 Lenctentid: Time of Lengthening
Religion & Ethics BBC site
Feb. 28, 2010 - Purim/Holiday of Joy (March 20, 2011) Judaism posters Judaism 101
February Notable Dates
b. 2-1-1859 - Victor Herbert, composer Victor Herbert Resource File
2-1-1865 - Freedom Day- President Lincoln signs 13th Amendment CP Links for Learning - Lincoln
b. 2-1-1872 - Clara Butt, opera singer Clara Butt Resource File
b. 2-1-1894 - James P. Johnson musician James P. Johnson Resource File
b. 2-1-1902 - Langston Hughes, poet CP Links for Learning - Hughes
b. 2-1-1918 - Muriel Spark, author Muriel Spark Resource File
b. 2-1-1922 - Renata Tebaldi, soprano opera singer Renata Tebaldi Resource File
2-1-2003 - Columbia Shuttle Tragedy NASA
b. 2-2-1650 - Nell Gwynne, actress Nell Gwynne Resource File
b. 2-2-1745 - Hannah More, author Hannah More Resource File
b. 2-2-1840 - Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray Resource File
b. 2-2-1859 - Henry Havelock Ellis, psychologist Henry Havelock Ellis Resource File
b. 2-2-1882 - James Joyce, author James Joyce Resource File
b. 2-2-1875 - Fritz Kreisler, composer Fritz Kreisler Resource File
b. 2-2-1923 - James Dickey, author James Dickey Resource File
d. c. 2-3-1468 - Johann Gutenberg, inventor Johann Gutenberg Resource File
b. 2-3-1743 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, teacher Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Resource File
b. 2-3-1809 - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer Mendelssohn Resource File
b. 2-3-1809 - Ada Negri, author Ada Negri Resource File
b. 2-3-1811 - Horace Greeley, newspaper editor Horace Greeley Resource File
b. 2-3-1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, physician Elizabeth Blackwell Resource File
b. 2-3-1874 - Gertrude Stein, author Gertrude Stein Resource File
b. 2-3-1907 - James A. Michener, author James Michener Resource File
b. 2-4-1746 - Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Revolutionary War hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko Resource File
b. 2-4-1810 - Alexis Benoit Soyer, chef Alexis Benoit Soyer Resource File
b. 2-4-1864 - Margot Asquith, author Margot Asquith Resource File
b. 2-4-1887 - Zena Dare, actress Zena Dare biography
b. 2-4-1902 - Charles Lindbergh, aviator Charles Lindbergh Resource File
b. 2-4-1905 - Eddie Foy, Jr., entertainer Eddie Foy, Jr. Resource File
b. 2-4-1906 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer Resource File
b. 2-4-1906 - Clyde W. Tombaugh, astronomer, Pluto poster Clyde Tombaugh Resource File
b. 2-4-1921 - Betty Friedan, author & activist Betty Friedan Resource File
b. 2-5-1911 - Jussi Bjorling, tenor opera singer Jussi Bjorling Resource File
b. 2-5-1914 - Wm. S. Burroughs, poet Wm. S. Burroughs Resource File
b. 2-5-1934 - Hank Aaron, baseball player Hank Aaron Resource File
b. 2-6-1756 - Aaron Burr, Revolutionary War Aaron Burr Resource File
2-6-1788 - Massachusetts Admission, 6th Massachusetts History Timeline
b. 2-6-1796 - John Stevens Henslow, botanist John Stevens Henslow Resource File
b. 2-6-1809 - Karl Bodner, artist Karl Bodner Resource File
b. 2-6-1911 - Ronald Reagan, 40th US President White House Bio - Reagan
b. 2-6-1913 - Mary Leakey, scientist anthropology posters
b. 2-6-1913 - Rosa Parks, civil rights activist CP Links for Learning - Parks
b. 2-6-1945 - Bob Marley, musician Bob Marley Resource File
b. 2-7-1812 - Charles Dickens, author CP Links for Learning - Dickens
b. 2-7-1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author Laura Ingalls Wilder Home
b. 2-7-1870 - Alfred Adler, psychologist Alfred Adler Resource File
b. 2-7-1883 - Eubie Blake, musician Eubie Blake Resource File
b. 2-7-1885 - Sinclair Lewis, author Sinclair Lewis Resource File
b. 2-7-1907 - Marjorie Lawrence, soprano Marjorie Lawrence Resource File
b. 2-7-1920 - An Wang; China An Wang Resource File
b. 2-8-1819 - John Ruskin, philosopher John Ruskin Resource File
b. 2-8-1828 - Jules Verne, author Jules Verne Resource File
b. 2-8-1834 - Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, chemist Mendeleyev Resource File
b. 2-8-1850 - Kate Chopin, author Kate Chopin Resource File
b. 2-8-1876 - Paula Modersohn-Becker, artist Modersohn-Becker Resource File
b. 2-8-1880 - Franz Marc, artist Franz Marc Resource File
b. 2-8-1888 - Dame Edith Evans, actress Dame Edith Evans Resource File
b. 2-8-1911 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet Elizabeth Bishop Resource File
b. 2-9-1773 - Wm. Henry Harrison, 9th US President White House Bio - Harrison
b. 2-9-1865 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell, actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell Resource File
b. 2-9-1866 - George Ade, journalist George Ade Resource File
b. 2-9-1874 - Amy Lawrence Lowell, poet Amy Lawrence Lowell Resource File
b. 2-9-1910 - Jacques-Lucien Monod, biologist Jacques-Lucien Monod Resource File
b. 2-9-1923 - Brendan Behan, poet Brendan Behan Resource File
b. 2-9-1944 - Alice Walker, author Alice Walker Resource File
b. 2-9-1945 - Mia Farrow, actress Mia Farrow Resource File
b. 2-10-1775 - Charles Lamb, essayist & poet Charles Lamb Resource File
b. 2-10-1868 - William Allen White, author William Allen White Resource File
b. 2-10-1890 - Boris Pasternak, author Boris Pasternak Resource File
b. 2-10-1898 - Bertolt Brecht, author Bertolt Brecht Resource File
b. 2-10-1902 - Walter Brattain, physicist Walter Brattain Resource File
b. 2-10-1927 - Leontyne Price, opera singer Leontyne Price Resource File
b. 2-11-1802 - Lydia Maria Child, activist Lydia Maria Child Resource File
b. 2-11-1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor CP Links for Learning - Edison
b. 2-12-1663 - Cotton Mather, theologian Cotton Mather Resource File
b. 2-12-1870 - Marie Lloyd, music hall singer Marie Lloyd Resource File
b. 2-12-1809 - Charles Darwin, scientist Charles Darwin Resource File
b. 2-12-1809 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President CP Links for Learning - Lincoln
b. 2-12-1880 - John L. Lewis, labor leader John L. Lewis Resource File
b. 2-12-1884 - Max Beckmann, artist Max Beckmann Resource File
b. 2-12-1893 - Omar Bradley, military Omar Bradley Resource File
b. 2-13-1766 - Thomas Robert Malthus, philosopher Thomas Malthus Resource File
b. 2-13-1873 - Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin, opera singer Feodor Chaliapin Resource File
b. 2-13-1920 - Eileen Farrell, soprano opera singer Eileen Farrell Resource File
b. 2-13-1923 - Chuck Yaeger, aviator Chuck Yaeger Resource File
b. 2-14-1404 - Leone Battista Alberti, architects Leone Battista Alberti Resource File
2-14-1859 - Oregon Admission, 33th state Oregon State Capital Tour
b. 2-14-c.1818 - Frederick Douglass, abolitionist CP Links for Learning - Douglass
b. 2-14-1847 - Anna Howard Shaw, suffragist Anna Howard Shaw Resource File
2-14-1912 - Arizona Admission, 48th state Arizona Humanities Council
b. 2-14-1913 - James Hoffa, labor leader James Hoffa Resource File
b. 2-14-1959 - Renee Fleming, opera singer Renee Fleming Resource File
b. 2-15-1564 - Galileo Galilei, mathematician, astronomer Galileo Galilei Resource File
b. 2-15-1748 - Jeremy Bentham, philosopher Jeremy Bentham Resource File
b. 2-15-1820 - Susan B. Anthony, suffragette CP Links for Learning - Anthony
b. 2-15-1845 - Elihu Root, Nobel Peace winner Elihu Root Resource File
b. 2-15-1856 - Emil Kraepelin, psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin Resource File
b. 2-15-1874 - Ernest Shackleton, explorer Ernest Shackleton Resource File
b. 2-16-1834 - Ernst Haeckel, biologist Ernst Haeckel Resource File
b. 2-16-1847 - Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, composer Scharwenka Resource File
b. 2-17-1821 - Lola Montez, dancer Lola Montez Resource File
b. 2-17-1879 - Dorothy Canfield Fisher, author Dorothy Canfield Fisher Resource File
b. 2-17-1924 - Margaret Truman, author Margaret Truman Resource File
b. 2-17-1963 - Michael Jordan, basketball player Michael Jordan Resource File
b. 2-18-1374 - Jadwiga of Poland Jadwiga of Poland Resource File
b. 2-18-1745 - Alessandro Volta, physicist Alessandro Volta Resource File
b. 2-18-1832 - Octave Chanute, aviation pioneer Octave Chanute Resource File
b. 2-18-1851 - Ida Husted Harper, activist & journalist Ida Husted Harper Resource File
b. 2-18-1883 - Nikos Kazantzakis, author Nikos Kazantzakis Resource File
b. 2-18-1911 - Merle Oberon, actress Merle Oberon Resource File
b. 2-18-1931 - Toni Morrison, author CP Links for Learning - Morrison
b. 2-19-1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus Resource File
b. 2-19-1877 - Gabriele Munter, artist Gabriele Munter Resource File
b. 2-19-1865 - Sven Anders Hedin, explorer Sven Anders Hedin Resource File
b. 2-20-1844 - Joshua Slocum, explorer Joshua Slocum Resource File
b. 2-20-1874 - Mary Garden, opera singer Mary Garden Resource File
b. 2-20-1937 - Nancy Wilson, singer Nancy Wilson Resource File
b. 2-21-1801 - John Henry Newman, theologian John Henry Newman Resource File
b. 2-21-1821 - Rachel, actress Rachel Resource File
b. 2-21-1836 - Leo Delibes, composer Leo Delibes Resource File
b. 2-21-1888 - Clemence Dane, author Clemence Dane Resource File
b. 2-21-1892 - Harry Stack Sullivan, psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan Resource File
b. 2-21-1895 - Henrik Dam, biologist Henrik Dam Resource File
b. 2-21-1907 - W. H. Auden, author W. H. Auden Resource File
b. 2-21-1936 - Barbara Jordan, lawyer & statesperson Barbara Jordan Resource File
b. 2-22-1732 - George Washington, US President George Washington Birthplace
b. 2-22-1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer Resource File
b. 2-22-1819 - James Russell Lowell, poet James Russell Lowell Resource File
b. 2-23-1883 - Karl Jaspers, psychiatrist Karl Jaspers Resource File
b. 2-22-1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay Resource File
b. 2-22-1925 - Edward Gorey, author Edward Gorey Resource File
b. 2-22-1972 - Michael Chang, tennis player Michael Chang Resource File
b. 2-23-1633 - Samuel Pepys, diarist Samuel Pepys Resource File
b. 2-23-1685 - Georg Friedrich Händel, composer George Frideric Handel Resource File
b. 2-23-1786 - Wilhelm Karl Grimm, storyteller Grimm's Fairytales
b. 2-23-1787 - Emma Willard, educator Emma Willard Resource File
b. 2-23-1868 - W. E. B. DuBois, educator & activist CP Links for Learning - DuBois
2-23-1945 - Iwo Jima Day U.S. Marines raised the flag on Mt. Suribachi
b. 2-24-1304 - Ibn Battuta, explorer Ibn Battuta Resource File
b. 2-24-1463 - Pico Della Mirandola, philosopher Pico Della Mirandola Resource File
b. 2-24-1664 - Thomas Newcomen, inventor Thomas Newcomen Resource File
2-24-1803, Marbury v. Madison; The Supreme Court established judicial review as a legitimate power of the Court on constitutional grounds. Background on Marbury v Madison
d. 2-24-1821 - Marie-Anne Collot, artist Marie-Anne Collet Resource File
b. 2-24-1827 - Lydia Becker, suffragist Lydia Becker Resource File
b. 2-24-1836 - Winslow Homer, artist CP Links for Learning - Homer
b. 2-24-1890 - Marjorie Main, actress Marjorie Main Resource File
d. 2-25-1574 - Vittoria Colonna, poet Vittoria Colonna Resource File
b. 2-25-1778 - Gen. Jose de San Martin, military San Martin Resource File
b. 2-25-1841 - Pierre August Renoir, artist Pierre August Renoir Resource File
b. 2-25-1873 - Enrico Caruso, opera singer Enrico Caruso Resource File
2-25-1928 - First U.S. television license “Television is in the business of reprogramming the sensory life of North America, changing the outlook and experience of the population. This has nothing to do with programs: it has everything to do with the medium.” Marshall McLuhan Museum of Television

2-26-1564 - Christopher Marlowe christened Christopher Marlowe Resource File
b. 2-26-1732 - Francis Marison, Revolutionary War Hero Francis Marion Resource File
b. 2-26-1802 - Victor Hugo, author Victor Hugo Resource File
b. 2-26-1808 - Honoré Daumier, artist Honoré Daumier Resource File
b. 2-26-1821 - Félix Ziem, painter Félix Ziem Resource File
b. 2-26-1842 - Camille Flammarion, astronomer Camille Flammarion Resource File
b. 2-26-1846 - Buffalo Bill Cody, scout & showman Buffalo Bill Cody Resource File
2-26 – 3-5, 2005 - World Special Olympics Winter Games, Nagano, Japan Special Olympics Program
b. 2-27-1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet CP Links for Learning - Longfellow
b. 2-27-1847 - Ellen Terry, actress Ellen Terry Resource File
b. 2-27-1888 - Roberto Assagioli, psychologist Roberto Assagioli Resource File
b. 2-27-1888 - Lotte Lehmann, opera singer Lotte Lehmann Resource File
b. 2-27-1897 - Marian Anderson, opera singer Marian Anderson Resource File
b. 2-27-1902 - John Steinbeck, author John Steinbeck Resource File
b. 2-27-1923 - Dexter Gordon, musician Dexter Gordon Resource File
b. 2-27-1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, actress Elizabeth Taylor Resource File
b. 2-27-1923 - “Bo Diddley”, musician “Bo Diddley” Resource File
b. 2-27-1934 - Ralph Nader, consumer advocate Ralph Nader Resource File
b. 2-28-1553 - Michel de Montaigne, author Michel de Montaigne Resource File
b. 2-28-1882 - Geraldine Farrar, opera singer Geraldine Farrar Resource File
b. 2-28-1901 - Linus Pauling, scientist Linus Pauling Resource File
b. 2-29-1736 - Ann Lee, theologian Ann Lee Resource File
b. 2-29-1792 - Gioacchino Rossini, composer Gioacchino Rossini Resource File
b. 2-29-1892 - Augusta Savage, sculptor Augusta Savage Resource File
February Facts Facts & Tidbits

February: Warming by the Fire, Master Ermengaut, Giclee PrintFebruary, 2nd month of the year, was named for the Latin februum, meaning a time of purification, an early spring cleaning. In the Northern Hemisphere February is at the end of the Winter season.

February is the shortest month of the year, and the only month to have an extra day added every 4th year, or Leap Year. Other names for February include the Anglo-Saxon Solmoneth (sun month), Kale-monath (cabbage) and Charlemagne's designation, Hornung.

February Astrological Signs
Aquarius: January 20 - Feb 18 • Aquarius poster
• Aquarius, the Water Carrier Ecard		 cardinal, earth, universal; “I build,” ambitious, cautious, authoritative, cunning, competent, stable, saturnine, knees/skeleton; prudent, cautious, suspicious.
Pisces: Feb 19 - March 20 • Pisces poster
• Pisces, the Fish Ecard		 fixed, air, universal; “I know,” friendships, cause-oriented, the group, society, progressive, eccentric, aloof, calves/ankles; democratic, unconventional, detached.
February Birthstones
• Amethyst is a purple variety of quartz whose name comes from the Greek 'a' ("not") and 'methustos '("to intoxicate"), referring to the belief of the ancient Greeks and Romans that those who wore amethyst were protected from intoxication.
 Minerals Chart Art Print • Birthstone (U of Washington)
• Amethyst Resource File
February Flowers
• Violets signify faithfulness, fertility and love.
• Primrose is the first "rose" (prime-rose) to flower in the spring.		 • flower posters • Violet Resource File
• Primrose Resource File

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