May 2008

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May is Get Caught Reading Month!

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National Public Radio began broadcasting in 1971.

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Today is Cinco de Mayo.

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Teacher Appreciation Week honors our teachers.

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Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson’s birthday.

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Newbery Medal winner Christopher Paul Curtis was born in 1953.

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Celebrate National Children’s Book Week!

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Star Wars creator George Lucas was born in 1944.

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The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929.

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Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.

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Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in 1925.

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Charles Lindbergh began his transatlantic flight in 1927.

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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood premiered in 1967.

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Author Scott O’Dell was born on this day.

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The Brooklyn Bridge opened on this day in 1883.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803.

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Sally Ride, first American woman in space, was born in 1951.

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Rachel Carson was born on this day in 1907.

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National Spelling Bee Finals take place this week.

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Today is Walt Whitman’s birthday.